Writer: Chris Ahrens | Photography: Bil Zelman
Hip-hop is associated with the streets and, sometimes unfairly, their accompanying vices—sex, drugs, and violence. The edge that demands reality is sometimes drenched in blood, and blood sacrifice is exactly what the S.O.G. Crew are about—not a drop wasted but a debt paid, a king on death row, flesh hammered into raw wood, His pain, our gain, don’t play a loser’s game. So, yeah, there is violence and blood, but no street battles and nothing to dull the broken heart of a Savior.