Couldnt send this chapter Existentialist Transvaluation and Hip-Hop’s Syncretic Religiosity off without some Southern STANK on it! I love and respect the work of my esteemed SOUTHERN HIP HOP DRIVEN Academic friends/colleagues: Pastor Troy, the son of a Georgian Pastor, is similarly dissatisfied with the tenets of faith as they are upheld in the church. In his 2002 release, Vice Versa he says, Im doing my best to save my people [...] I wanna make you use your mind. Taking up TuPacs mantle, Troy is as confident as his predecessor in the truth of salvation, but his God, like Tupacs, has the Gs back on the corners; his God understands, oversees, and even participates in the Manichean turf battle between good and evil--both of which are highly flexible concepts in the traps of urban America. - Julius Bailey (2014). Written with admiration to Regina N. Bradley Joycelyn Wilson , Maco L. Faniel, Bettina Love and others....
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