Can Catholics be associated with secular rap?

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Are Catholics allowed to freestyle, write, and record secular rap? Additionally, would dressing like you are from the hood (wearing baggy clothes) violate modesty?

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Rap is a musical art form. Of itself it is not good or bad, holy or unholy. It is legitimate for a Catholic to “freestyle, write and record ‘secular’ rap”. I think involvment becomes a concern when the “freestyling” enters into inappropriate or obscene topics.

Baggy clothes are not immodest. Being attached and psychologically dependant on a specific clothing fashion/fad might be fiscally “immodest”. And, of course, “baggy” might need a belt to keep the pants up.
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There is always “someone” to think any number of things create a negative image.
 
I sometimes listen to the unsensored rap channel on my grandfather’s IO digital cable if I want to laugh at bad music, and all the songs are filthy. All the songs are about sex and are obsene. I don’t understand how anybody could listen to that type of rap. Even Kanye West’s songs are filthy and he is mainstream. I wish rap would go away like disco did, but I doubt that that’ll happen any time soon.
 
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Are Catholics allowed to freestyle, write, and record secular rap?
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If the rap music you want to freestayle, write or record promotes the Culture of Death, the Culture of Lust, or the Culture of Senseless Materialism, then as a faithful Catholic wishing to please God, you would not want to do anything that would put yourself or others in a near occassion of sin.
Additionally, would dressing like you are from the hood (wearing baggy clothes) violate modesty?
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That would depend on how low on your hips your intend to wear your baggy pants. It would also depend on whether or not you intend to wear gang colors. You have to determine if you are temping yourself or others to commit lust or violence.

Want to hear good Catholic rap? Try Fr. Stan Fortuna’s song “Everybody Got 2 Suffer.”

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I like Fr. Fortunas’s song, “School of the Eucharist.”
 
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I like Fr. Fortunas’s song, “School of the Eucharist.”
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agreed.
 
If any of this proposed activity supports sin the answer is no. If you mean writing, singing lyrics that glorify sin and sinful acts, or assiting in the technical aspects of producing such media, the answer is no. If you mean profiting by media that promotes and glorifies sin, the answer is no. To cooperate is to participate. Moreover to purchase or listen to such music is also cooperation and material participation in sin.
 
there is a differnece between Mike Jones and Telib Kweli
 
If any of this proposed activity supports sin the answer is no. If you mean writing, singing lyrics that glorify sin and sinful acts, or assiting in the technical aspects of producing such media, the answer is no. If you mean profiting by media that promotes and glorifies sin, the answer is no. To cooperate is to participate. Moreover to purchase or listen to such music is also cooperation and material participation in sin.
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It would be very hard to get around that.
 
It is not impossible to keep it clean and be a successful rapper. What about Will Smith? He started at a time when it was starting to head toward the gansta junk and he has never gone to that place. He does not curse or grab himself or promote nasty stereotypes of women or pimp lifestyles for men in his music that I’ve ever heard. As can be seen from his career, you can obviously take talent and hard work and move into many areas if you have not made yourself into a bad stereotype.

What about Queen Latifah? She started purely as a rapper/DJ and her lyrics were about positive images for women. She knew her potential audience and played to the positive. She turned the rap career into acting on her own TV show and now into a movie career and a recent jazz album under her given name!

I think that the pendulum will start swinging back from the oversexed, gansta stuff if more talented people make better music and work to get it produced. Merely working in the music industry is not a sin if you are not actively making and producing those certain types of sinful music, so don’t be discouraged from your dreams. It might just be harder for you to do the right thing in that career, not impossible!
 
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