Wait, so people make Christmas playlists, but they don’t make Easter playlists?
Yeah, this never really made sense to us. If you’re going to have music celebrating the birth of Jesus, shouldn’t you also have music celebrating when he resurrected himself? (That’s if you believe in that stuff, of course.)
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So, we decided to do something about it. We wanted to make our own Easter playlist. We didn’t use any songs by Christian artists, however. That would be too easy. Instead we gathered our favorite Christian-themed songs done by our favorite hip-pop stars.
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So from rappers like Kanye West and DMX to pop legends like Madonna and Lady Gaga, here’s our Easter playlist, featuring the best God and Jesus based songs.
Play away!
Madonna “Like a Prayer” (1989)
The Flaming Lips “”Shine on Sweet Jesus: Jesus Song No. 5″ (1990)
Nirvana “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam” (1994)
Joan Osborne “One of Us” (1995)
R. Kelly “U Saved Me” (2004)
Kanye West “Jesus Walks” (2004)
DMX “Lord Give Me a Sign (2006)
Arcade Fire “Intervention” (2007)
The Roots & Monsters of Folk (2010)
Lady Gaga “Judas” (2011)
