Saturday Album Review - Minorville by Derek Minor

I'm sure some people thought I was gonna review this one sooner rather than later, especially since the album dropped this last week, but "Minorville" is a dynamic, diverse, and hard-hitting album that cuts into a lot of society's biggest issues today.

Probably the most well known song on the album is my favorite, "Dear Mr. Christian" - featuring Dee-1 and Lecrae. It really gets into some of the hypocrisy in modern day Christianity with poignant references to pornography and drug use. Written from the perspective of a non-Christian, each artist raps a line asking the Christian to see the position that hypothetical individual came from and how they would "appreciate it if you take some time to listen [to their side of things]."
I embedded the music video below.
Other singles from the album release include "Gimmie" - about today's "give me" culture - (music video here) and We Are (Champions) (music link here).
We Are is probably my second favorite song on the album, with key verses like this one:

Picture that - how God uses foolish things like ex-weed heads and d-boys 

To speak on His behalf can't tell me that's not the Lord!

It's a cool and remarkable look at God using things that are bad in nature for His good and the redemption that can come with Him.

Derek Minor also tells a story in his song "Homecoming" about a girl's life through pregnancy, splitting up with her lover, and drug use to seeking and receiving forgiveness - a welcoming home to God's kingdom.

It's easy to go on and on about this album, but you should take my word for it and buy it on iTunes. For those of you that might want to download it other ways or just use Spotify, let me put it this way. If the people that are really listening and receiving blessing off the albums these guys put out don't pay for their albums, then who will? It's very hard to be compensated in the Christian Hip Hop world - if you can find a way, it allows people like Derek Minor to continue his service promoting truth.

Derek Minor is part of Reach Records and his album can be found here.

Final Album Ranking = 8.5/10 (the 1.5 missing from the perfect score is more in that I only think a couple albums are 10/10 quality - I'll try and post one next weekend for your comparison).

Best,

Felix