Strange EWTN question--Rap Anime Christi

[PacoG]

Did Fr. Stan Fortuna record a rap version of the Anime Christi? Perhaps way back when Jeff Cavins hosted “Life on the Rock”?

Occasionally, I sleep with the television on, and, most likely, it is on EWTN. I seem to remember in one of those moments of half-sleep hearing the Anime Christi in a rap beat. And if its in rap and on EWTN, it has to be Fr. Stan Fortuna.

I’d actually like to hear that it is a figment of my half-asleep imagination. The idea of the Anime Christi being sung to rap beat is kind of disconcerting.

 

[scottywolf777]

Did Fr. Stan Fortuna record a rap version of the Anime Christi? Perhaps way back when Jeff Cavins hosted “Life on the Rock”?

Occasionally, I sleep with the television on, and, most likely, it is on EWTN. I seem to remember in one of those moments of half-sleep hearing the Anime Christi in a rap beat. And if its in rap and on EWTN, it has to be Fr. Stan Fortuna.

I’d actually like to hear that it is a figment of my half-asleep imagination. The idea of the Anime Christi being sung to rap beat is kind of disconcerting.

I’m afraid he probably has done that!I beleieve i even heard it once. I heard he did a homily in rap for a youth group which wasn’t inner city face on the kids looked like this:
Rap unfortunatly is mostly iambic pentameter the most common rythmn conbination to the English language. I once did the three witches’ speech for a friend (from macBeth known in the theatre as “that scottish play”).
[SIGN]Rap music-def bad and sometimes unintellgible poetry put to annoyingly bad music[/SIGN]

 

[dixibehr]

Rap unfortunatly is mostly iambic pentameter the most common rythmn conbination to the English language. I once did the three witches’ speech for a friend (from macBeth known in the theatre as “that scottish play”).<<

The witches’ speeches are in trochaic tetrameter, not iambic pentameter.

 

[Robster7]

I don’t believe, in principle, rendering traditional prayers in a musical style with which the audience is familiar is necessarily bad. I am not fond of rap or hip-hop (don’t know the difference, either.). It seems to me that if the audience might more easily receive the message if rendered in a format that better appeals to them, it’s a good thing.
It would not appeal to me, but if it is a key that might open the door to someone’s heart, it’s good.

A lot of popular Catholic music appealed to me more in the past than it does now.
Although some of these songs are appealing almost immediately, they wear out their welcome over time. I get the impression there is a playlist of about 20 Catholic songs that one may guarantee will appear again and again at Mass anywhere.