| Introduction: The Mix and the Remix | p. xi |
| When Did You Fall in Love with Hip-Hop? My Story and the Story of Hip-Hop | p. 1 |
| An Extended Track | p. 1 |
| Confronted by Tupac | p. 6 |
| Nod Your Head: Good Morning, Hip-Hop, "I Feel You" | p. 8 |
| Interlude: Moving In and Out | p. 10 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 13 |
| I Said a Hip-Hop: A Snapshot of Hip-Hop History | p. 15 |
| This Is Too Much for One CD | p. 15 |
| Who Is Yo' Baby's Daddy? | p. 17 |
| Is That Baby Walking? | p. 19 |
| So What Yo' Baby Say? | p. 21 |
| Everybody in the House Say Ahhhh | p. 22 |
| That Baby Done Run in the Streets | p. 24 |
| I See You | p. 26 |
| "Walk This Way" | p. 29 |
| It's Golden: Fight the Power | p. 30 |
| Born in the USA | p. 36 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 36 |
| R U Still Down? Hip-Hop Culture as an Extension of the Blues | p. 39 |
| Hip-Hop as a Lament | p. 40 |
| The Roots and Contextualization of the Message in "The Message": The Story and Storyteller | p. 41 |
| The Message in Hip-Hop Is "The Message": What Is the Message in "The Message"? | p. 43 |
| The Creation and the Ground of Hip-Hop: An Inner City Built on Inequity | p. 47 |
| Hip-Hop and Its Continuation of African American Theomusicological History | p. 52 |
| Unpacking the Story Structure of Hip-Hop | p. 55 |
| The Blues in Hip-Hop from Moses to Joseph | p. 58 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 65 |
| I Used to Love Her and I Still Love Her: Loving the Broken Beauty of Hip-Hop | p. 67 |
| Common Sense of Common: Whose Side Are You On? | p. 67 |
| I Ain't on No Side: I Am Hip-Hop | p. 68 |
| It Feels Good: Developing a Hip-Hop Aesthetic | p. 70 |
| Listening to the Dirty without Being Dirty: The Fanatic Critic | p. 74 |
| Suicidal Thoughts: Being Perplexed While in the Moment | p. 76 |
| Pimps Up, Hos Down: When Hip-Hop Goes Too Far | p. 78 |
| Push It: Women in Hip-Hop | p. 79 |
| Hustlin': Brothas and Sistas Caught in the Middle | p. 80 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 82 |
| "Slippin' and Slidin' I'm about to Give Up": The Theological Truth in the Story | p. 83 |
| Who Listens to DMX? | p. 83 |
| Can the Words of DMX Be a Type of Sacred Tea or Word That Sets People Free? | p. 85 |
| It's Dark and Hell Is Hot: Truth in the Struggle of the Story | p. 87 |
| Looking Back at the Word through the Word | p. 89 |
| A Man Who Never Was a Boy | p. 91 |
| The Nightmare of the Dream | p. 94 |
| This Is for My Dogs: A Closing Prayer | p. 95 |
| What If God Is Using DMX and Hip-Hop? | p. 96 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 96 |
| God Skipped Past the Church: A Hip-Hop Theology and a Hip-Hop Theologian | p. 97 |
| Intro: What Did God Say? | p. 97 |
| "Everything Man" | p. 100 |
| "NY Weather Report" | p. 102 |
| "Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)" | p. 103 |
| "Say Something" Featuring Jean Grae and "Country Cousins" Featuring UGK and Raheem DeVaughn | p. 105 |
| "Eat to Live" | p. 106 |
| "Give 'Em Hell" Featuring Coi Mattison and Lyfe Jennings | p. 107 |
| "Hostile Gospel Pt. 2 (Deliver Me)" Featuring Sizzla | p. 110 |
| "The Nature" Featuring Justin Timberlake | p. 111 |
| Bonus Track: The Essence of Hip-Hop Theology | p. 112 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 113 |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: A Socio-Theological Critique of Hip-Hop | p. 115 |
| So What Now? | p. 115 |
| Do You See What I Hear? | p. 116 |
| Who Dat Talkin' 'Bout Hip-Hop? | p. 118 |
| The Miseducation of Hip-Hop: Introducing a Feminist Critique | p. 118 |
| Lost One with Lost Souls: Is Hip-Hop Selling Soul or Has Hip-Hop Souled Out? | p. 120 |
| Forgive Them, Father: Forgiveness and Hip-Hop | p. 123 |
| Correcting the Miseducation in Hip-Hop and of the Hip-Hop Generations: Between Motown and Def Jam | p. 125 |
| To Zion or Hell? | p. 128 |
| Getting in Touch with Hip-Hop | p. 130 |
| Conclusion: From Gil Scott-Heron to Mos Def | p. 131 |
| I Still Love Her | p. 131 |
| Message to the Messengers: A Preacher and Hip-Hop | p. 131 |
| Finding Forever: A Theologian and Hip-Hop | p. 132 |
| The Doctor's Advocate: A Sociologist and Hip-Hop | p. 133 |
| Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me: A Defender of Hip-Hop | p. 134 |
| Get Free or Die Trying versus Get Rich or Die Trying: Where Do We Go from Here-Chaos or Community? | p. 135 |
| God's Sons and Daughters: Redeeming Hip-Hop or Will Hip-Hop Redeem Us? | p. 136 |
| Notes | p. 139 |
| Bibliography | p. 147 |
| Index | p. 155 |
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