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We Need to Discuss Carman’s Hip-Hop Era
Every so often, Christian culture leaves behind an artifact so strange, so sincere and so fully committed to its own questionable instincts that it deserves to be studied like ancient pottery or unexplained lights in the sky. Carman’s hip-hop era belongs firmly in that category.For anyone who (unfortunately) missed the Carman phenomenon, some context helps. Carman Licciardello was one of the biggest figures Christian music had ever produced, a stadium-filling performer who turned concerts into f