ARTICLE: What Would Jesus Rap?

September 4th, 2006 | Articles | Source: CMWired.com (255)

When the history of Christian rap-metal music is finally written, I pray to the Lord of Hosts that I don’t have to read it. But if that fate should befall me, I’d feel gypped if it didn’t include an extended encomium to the boys from Junkyard Prophet.

If you have fallen behind in your reading on the Christian “rapcore” and “nu-metal” scene, you might have missed the announcement in Heaven’s Metal magazine a decade ago naming them the second best unsigned band behind P.O.D. (”Payable on Death.”) Since then P.O.D. has been signed, has crossed over to the secular side, and has become a multiplatinum MTV darling. But Junkyard Prophet? They’re another story. […read more]

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