On the regular, not a church girl she was secular

from Common – I Used to Love H.E.R. Lyrics on Rap Genius

While this might’ve been the way that the young Com experienced it, the relationship between preaching and singing and the connection between Rastafarianism and Jamaican music both predate and inform hip-hop. Artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and MC Hammer moved smoothly between religious and secular music. The first gospel rap album, Stephen Wiley’s Bible Break, was released in 1985, the same year as Run-DMC’s King of Rock and Doug E. Fresh’s The Show

Separating the sacred from the profane in American culture, especially African-American culture, is a sucker’s game

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