Various - Higher Ground: Hip-Hop Reformed & Reborn

Wednesday 1st December 2004
Various - Higher Ground: Hip-Hop Reformed & Reborn
Various - Higher Ground: Hip-Hop Reformed & Reborn

STYLE: Hip-Hop
RATING 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 10462-9858
LABEL: Image Music Group 014381104028
FORMAT: CD Album
PRICE: £9.97 RRP £14.99

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Reviewed by Kwaku

This is the soundtrack to a film that celebrates life and the Lord, despite the harsh American inner-city life. It's so easy for us to think rap music has to be dark and gangster-ish. Thankfully the holy hip-hop artists here sound just as strong and groovy, and have skills comparable to many of their better-known secular counterparts. Standouts are the R&B-laced rap from Jah Word featuring Gibraan, Christsyde and The Cross Movement, the funk-driven rap by Gibraan and CL Ryderz, and female rapper Elle ROC's aptly-titled R&B-laced 'So Beautiful'. The interludes here include soundtrackfrom the film, such as Gospel Gangstaz's Tik Tokk's confession of his past life as a gangbanger!


Sample Track Listing:
1. Reformed & Reborn - Tik Tokk of Gospel Gangstaz [Listen]
2. Psalm 23 - The Ambassador of The Cross Movement [Listen]
3. I Know - Jah Word Ftr Gibraan [Listen]
4. Mockinbyrd Slang - Gibraan [Listen]
5. Influential - Lavoisier The MC [Listen]
6. Stepped Up 2004 - Danny Wilson of Holy Hip-Hop
7. The Mansion - J-Silas of The RockSoul Family [Listen]
8. 805 - Applejaxx Ftr Kimme [Listen]
9. Bounce With Us - Gospel Gangstaz [Listen]
10. Cry No More - The Cross Movement [Listen]
11. The Invite - The RockSoul Family [Listen]
12. So Many Times - Righteous Riders [Listen]
13. Born Again - Christ Fa Real Ftr Antonious And Prime Minister [Listen]
14. Good Business Sense - The Ambassador of The Cross Movement [Listen]
15. Tennessee Bwoys - Grits [Listen]
16. The Struggle Is Over - C.L. Ryderz [Listen]
17. So Beautiful - Elle R.O.C. [Listen]
18. Different Way - Society Park1 [Listen]
19. Fiendin' - Christsyde [Listen]
20. Ominous Warning - Minister eDDie Valez [Listen]
21. The Ghost - Ziklag [Listen]

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Product Description
Presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ through cutting-edge music and images has historically put this community on the 'outs' with traditionalists in the Church, yet it has catapulted this music to the forefront of the mainstream.

Come inside and embrace intriguing and very candid stories from some of gospel's most legendary and accomplished artists. They paint a vivid and colourful portrait of what it's like to be on the edge in Higher Ground: Voices of Contemporary Gospel Music.

Artists include: Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, Kirk Franklin, Dr. Bobby Jones, Karen Clark Sheard, Vickie Winans, T-Bone, Yolanda Adams, Edwin Hawkins, Gospel Gangstaz, Dorinda Clark- Cole, Virtue, Tonex, Fred Hammond, Brent Jones, Deitrick Haddon, Out of Eden, Albertina Walker, The Cross Movement and many others.

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