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This has been a long time coming. Over the years I’ve said I would do it, but I always had an inkling of a fire to keep me going. This time is different though, I think I’m finally ready to end my “career” as a Christian Rap album reviewer. 2009 has been a benchmark year for me in many ways, with one area in particular being a highly diminished affection for Christian rap music. A lot of what I’m finding, at least in the style of rap that I prefer, is that it’s a lot of the same and it’s just boring to me. When it comes time to write reviews, I loathe them and usually push it off to a later date. I don’t enjoy it anymore, and I think with that it’s best to leave it to a younger generation that is more enamored with the music than I am.

In some respect, I’m not sure what this will mean for Trailblazin Ministries. At least for now, the site will continue to cover hip-hop music, but I don’t know if we will eventually cease to cover it and move solely to being a teaching ministry without the hip-hop slant. I’m still debating on whether I want to delete all of the hip-hop music from my computer. I don’t listen to it much and I still have them on CD, so it’s not like I can’t re-rip them if I want to give it a listen. It’s just a matter of doing it & deciding if I want to (it’s not like I’m hurting for hard drive space). I do know for a fact that long gone are the days of me supporting any & everything in the genre; instead, I’ll be a consumer who only supports the artists I personally like, which, at the moment, is very few.

With that being said, once I finish my stack of (long overdue) reviews for Sphere of Hip-Hop I’ll officially be calling it quits as an album reviewer. With that, I’ll also be all the more scarce in the Christian Rap community & forums, not that I’ve been all that active of late. It’s been fun. Grace & peace!