Hip Hop Music With a Message

Here is a list of Hip Hop artists, songs and CD’s with a message. Thanks to itunes, napster, youtube, etc. Many of these songs are still available. Please add your favorites.

Artists:

Public Enemy
X-Clan
Poor Righteous Teachers
Wise Intelligent
KRS ONE/ Boogie Down Productions
Professor Griff
Paris
Dead Prez
Sister Souljah

Arrested Development

Singles:

Boogie Down Productions: You Must Learn
X-Clan- Funkin’ Lesson
Professor Griff- Pawns in the Game
Public Enemy- Black is Back
Ice T -Lethal Weapon is My Mind
Dead Prez- Bigger Than Hip Hop

Renegades of Funk-Soulsonic Force

Revolution- Arrested Development

Suggested Books About Black Culture

Partial List of books about Black Culture-Feel free to add others

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa-Walter Rodney
Blueprint for Black Power- Dr. Amos Wilson
The Destruction of African Civilization-Dr. Chancellor Williams
Hip Hop vs MAAT-Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Africans at the Crossroads: Notes For An African World Revolution-Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Race First- Dr. Tony Martin
Isis Papers- Dr. Frances Cress -Welsing
Miseducation of the Negro- Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Race and Resistence-Herb Boyd
Hip Hop Tree- Damien Jackson
Fight the Power-Chuck D

Suggested Books on Black Theology

These are some books on Black Theology. Feel free to add some of your own favorites:

The Original African Heritage Bible- Dr. Caine Hope Felder

What Color was Jesus- William Mosely

Yeshua the Hebrew Messiah or Jesus the Christian Christ-Rabbi Ben Ammi

The Messiah and the End of this World- Rabbi BenAmmi

The Black Messiah- Rev. Albert Cleage

The Black Christ- Kelly Brown Douglas

God, the Bible and the Black man`s Destiny- Dr.Ishakamusa Barashango

Afrikan People and European Holidays-Dr. Ishakamusa Barashango

Adam, Where are you- Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu

The African Origins of Judaism- Jose Malcioln

The TRUTH about Black Biblical Hebrew-Israelites- Ella Hughley

Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy without a Black Theology- Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan

The Black Presence in the Bible- Rev. Walter McCray

What if Blacks did not Exist- Felix Ehui

The Valley of the Dry Bones- Rudolphf Windsor

From Babylon to Timbuktu- Rudolphf Windsor

Black Biblical Heritage- Dr. John L. Johnson

The Deceiving of the Black Race- Moses Farrar