Jesus, My Homeboy

You ever wonder where rappers draw their biggest inspiration from? One must look no further than Jesus Christ! Jesus has had the game on lock for thousand of years, that's reppin' son!. Let's take a look to see how Jesus has influenced rap. First off, you have Christian rap. Whoever, thought of that idea is going to hell, there's even gangster Christian Rap, people talking about doing drive-by's on the devil and stabbing demons.

The Click

Nowadays every rapper has a record label and fifteen people with him at all times. This way it looks like they don't need security, just a small nation's army with them, all carrying burners and gats, aka guns, illegally as protection. Jesus also had mad people with him at all times, called disciples, it was twelve, but one was Judas, he was the rat or snitch of the group. And in rap one big rule is to not snitch ever! "Snitches get Stitches" but it's always one of them go-tell on somebody whereabouts ass dudes around! But Judas started it all, he only got 30 pieces of silver, they didn't even give my man gold. That shit probably was cubic zirconium, not even real silver. Yup, Judas played, or betrayed, Jesus!I bet there were disciples trying to sleep with women back then telling girls they would meet Jesus and receive miracles, this same practice is seen with rappers. The roadies will sleep with a girl; telling them that they'll meet the superstar of the group, silly hoes!

Street Team

The disciples used to walk around towns to tell people of Jesus' future arrival. A street team for a rapper serves the same purpose. They walk around neighborhood's posting shit on my door and on old abandoned buildings, trying to tell people of the release date for upcoming albums.Many rappers release a first album quick and then spread word of upcoming albums on the Internet and through their street team. The disciples also tried telling people of Jesus' second return to the streets, but like rapper cd's, the release dates are unknown and always getting pushed back!

Rap Beef

Judas was also the first case of starting rap beef. See, Judas took money to tell people Jesus' location. In music, they do the same thing, they give money to rapper A to go and talk about rapper B. Controversy sells, unfortunately people take it too far and innocent people get murdered. In this case Jesus was murdered and so was Tupac and Biggie, all over some rap beef that the media started to call the West Coast-East Coast rivalry.People have been taking money to sell out their friends for centuries!

Pouring Out Liquor

In rap, people pour out liquor for their homies, or friends after that have passed. Tupac even has a song entitled, "Pour Out a Lil Liquor". People get drunk and pour liquor every where, in the street, club, I had a friend pour out liquor on my carpet once!  But where and how did this start? In the bible, people poured out drinks as sacrifices to God and other deities, think I'm lying, google it! There is also Communion Sundays, where my pastor used to explicitly say, "Drink/pour out my blood in remembrance of me" But I know it's wine and not really blood. And thousands of years later we are still pouring shit out our cups and onto the floor.

The Cypher

When rappers gather they sometimes start cyphers. Mainly, it's just to show other rappers how good you are on the spot with people paying attention. Usually, it's a group of unknown rappers just starting, trying to generate a buzz, or gain attention using their talent. Cyphers can last as long as a couple of minutes to hours, verse after verse. Jesus and his disciples would also sit around and spit, spit the holy word. That's right! They used parables. They would also recite verse after verse, but these verses came from the bible, all to try and impress Jesus and get attention for having immense knowledge about God's word, or to generate a buzz with Jesus. See how it works both ways!

Chains

Jesus' death is forever remembered, he was hung on a cross. Some rappers have even made this image their CD covers! Almost every rapper alive has a Jesus Chain or Jesus Piece or pieces of a Jesus chain, somewhere on them at all times. It's like an unwritten rap rule. One guy had a Jesus piece falling out of his sneaker. You could tell he walks with the Lord and has a hole in the shoe.

So peep game, or recognize what I'm telling you, this rap game is realer, or has more truth in it, than you know. Who else is reppin', or representing, this hard for Jesus? Rockstar's? They don't be dripping with that ice, or wearing Jesus jewelery. Singer's? Yeah they can blow, or sing, for the Lord but I don't see them pouring out any liquor! Country singers? Nope, because Jesus was black and most rappers are...black! So there you have it, Jesus was a black rapper with a gold chain, platinum albums that did miracles every time he touched down, or arrived, on the streets!!!