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Holy Hip Hop
Website:http://holyhiphop.com
Info:The Atlanta based label Holy Hip Hop has a distribution deal with EMI Gospel since February 2004. This means that EMI's Chordant group will distribute Holy Hip Hop albums to the general market. The "Taking the Gospel to the Streets" series is the first joint effort of the two companies.

Principles
Holy Hip Hop Music, distributed world-wide by EMI Gospel, committed to consistently adhere to the following three principles:
1. Provide Affordable Music.
2. Provide Music of Sound Production Quality.
3. Provide Music that is Inspiring and Enlightening to the Heart, grounded in Christian Ministry First, and devoid of obscenities and innuendo harmful to children, youth, adults, the community and interests of mass media, in general.

Artists
Holy Hip Hop Music, in strategic alliance with EMI Gospel, serves as the exclusive distribution partner for:
- Canton Jones : Love Jones (2005)
- Mr. Del : The Future (2005)
- Tragegy : Princess Cut (2006)
- Urban D : Unorthodox... (2007)
- Carriers Of The Cross : Against The Grain (2006)
- K-Drama : Behind The Glory (2006)
- DJ SkillSpinz : The Foundation (2007)
- Dice Gamble : Crazy Praise (2007)

Digital downloads
The year 2003 offered a successful legal system of downloading music for the first time, through the iTunes Music Store. In that year iTunes sold more than five million songs. The service was only limited to the United States at first. But in 2004 an iTunes Store would open in Europe for the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Milestone
In the wake of this online revolution Holy Hip Hop announced on March 8th, 2006 as a part of it's Digital Music Initiatives, that the 100,000 Digital Downloads' Milestone had been reached. On their site the royalties per album are listed as well.

Ringtones
In 2007 the initiative will be taken to offer ringtones.

Grammy Awards
In August 2006 Holy Hip Hop released a Music News Flash concerning a Grammy category for christian rap:
Effective for it's 2007 Grammy Awards (49th Annual) submissions window (Summer/Fall 2006), The Recording Academy (Grammy Society) has announced to it's members that it has updated it's Grammy Awards music listings and notably established a new submissions category, opening the door for the first time for Christian MCs specializing in Hip Hop Ministry, titled: 'Best Rock Gospel or Best Rap Gospel'

Kurtis Blow : Music Ministry Recordings
On September 20th, 2006 it became known that a new label would be formed, which is a partnership between hip hop pioneer Kurtis Blow, now a pastor, and Holy Hip Hop Music together with EMI Gospel, to produce, distribute and market "Music Ministry Recordings".

Music Licensing Deal
HolyHipHop.com announced on December 11th, 2006 that it has formed a strategic alliance with Atlanta-based Marketing firm: Manifesting Ministries and Production firm: Cajo International, in order to implement it's Television Sync Licensing Agreement with leading New York firm, specializing in Sync Licensing, providing instrumentals and music to television shows, commercials, advertisement agencies and movie producers worldwide.

Organization
The terms of the alliance provide that Cajo International will manage all music and beat submissions, Manifesting Ministries will facilitate all relationships for content; and HolyHipHop.com will channel all music submissions directly through Cajo International and Manifesting Ministries for processing and delivery to content partners.

Clean content
The company Holy Hip Hop sees a market in providing 'clean' content to the media marketplace, as they state: "Secular rappers inability to cleverly use the English language, without spittin lyrics laced with profanity and debauchery, has created an unprecedented opportunity for HolyHipHop.com to work with anointed emcees and producers worldwide to build the world's largest catalogue of morally-grounded beats and rhymes for back-end use within advertisements, video, tv and film projects worldwide." Their first music submissions will ship to New York on January 8, 2007 and they will provide a steady stream of licensing content, consistently every thirty (30) days thereafter.

Marketing
HolyHipHop.com announced on January 17th, 2007, that it has formed a strategic alliance with Atlanta-based MTM Entertainment ('More Than Music'). The terms of the agreement provide that MTM Entertainment will exclusively manage all of HolyHipHop.com's street marketing and grass-roots promotional campaigns.

Independent Music Awards
On June 18th, 2008 the Fellowship of Holy Hip Hop announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Music Resource Group (MRG):
1. publisher of the leading music industry contact databases the Musician's Atlas (with readership in excess of 250,000) and the interactive Musician’s AtlasOnline and (2) producers of the global "Independent Music Awards" - ‘the awards program for the indie revolution’.

Holy Hip Hop Categories
As part of the alliance, the Fellowship of Holy Hip Hop will assist the Independent Music Awards (IMA) with the creation of new IMA categories honoring top Holy Hip Hop Album and Song Winners for the upcoming 8th annual IMA program. The IMAs is an unique international program that promotes independent artists and releases to more than 15 million music fans and key industry players via year-long print, online and broadcast promotions, plus distribution and performance opportunities. Winners are determined by A-list artist and industry judges which have included: Speech, Yolanda Adams, Jose Feliciano, Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones, Erykah Badu and George Clinton among others.

Judging Panel
Industry leaders in the Holy Hip Hop and Gospel community such as "Kurtis Blow" Walker and Christopher 'Play' among other key members of the community suggested by the Fellowship of Holy Hip Hop, will join the IMA judging panel to determine the winners in the Holy Hip Hop Song and Album categories for the upcoming 8th annual IMA program. By adding Holy Hip Hop categories to its already broad range of music genres, the IMAs becomes one of the very few mainstream awards programs to honor excellence by artists in this genre.

TV program
On March 30th, 2009 Holy Hip Hop Video announced that it is now set for its premier season debut on Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) Affiliate JC-TV, beginning in April 2009, in support of the Global Movement to Take the Gospel to the Streets. Holy Hip Hop Video is a 30-minute weekly television program that features news, interviews, music videos and more.

Streaming
At the 9th Annual Holy Hip Hop Artist Showcase (Friday, January 16, 2009) the 2009 Holy Hip Hop Awards was able to offer a Live Stream, so viewers could watch the event from their home's computers.
City:Atlanta
Country:United States
Releases:A few random releases on this label...
Holy Hip Hop : Taking the Gospel to the Streets [Volume 1] Various Artists - Holy Hip Hop : Taking the Gospel to the Streets [Volume 1]
Against The Grain Carriers of the Cross - Against The Grain
Tragedy of the Darkest Hour Judah Priest - Tragedy of the Darkest Hour
Holy hip hop : Taking The Gospel To The Streets Volume 3 Various Artists - Holy hip hop : Taking The Gospel To The Streets Volume 3
Holy Hip Hop : Taking The Gospel To The Streets : Street Gospel 101 : Volume 6 Various Artists - Holy Hip Hop : Taking The Gospel To The Streets : Street Gospel 101 : Volume 6

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