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About Gods, I Don't Believe in None of That Shit, the Facts Are Backwards: Slaughterhouse's Lyrical Atheism
Ist Teil von
The Journal of hip hop studies, 2016-07, Vol.3 (1), p.47-73
Ort / Verlag
USA: North Park University Center for Youth Ministry Studies
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Hip Hop group Slaughterhouse's multi-membered, perversely holy quadrinity provides a fertile site for a pseudo-non-theological theological reading-a theology with and without god, that is, with god's titular presence but bereft of any ethos of a mover and shaker god. God, in my reading of Slaughterhouse's lyrics, is impotent. Rather than the Word, Slaughterhouse publishes sacred texts (albums and mixtapes) that speak to Black embodied life; their albums are the scriptural holy ghetto-Word, the Gospels that of Royce, Crooked, Joell, and Joey, rather than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Through the lyrics of Slaughterhouse's songs, they craft a god that is but is not; a god that does lyrical "work" in the sense that the name of god has cultural capital and produces effects, but is not "God," that is, a being that commands the heavens and the Earth.