Ghetto Gospel is coming...

A Visual Sermon. A Spoken Word Revival. A Cultural Praise Break.

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Ghetto Gospel is where the block meets the altar. It’s my love letter to the women who were baptized in basslines, anointed with bamboo earrings, and learned scripture through survival. This project is more than poetry or performance. It’s testimony. It’s the pulpit I built with my own hands when the church forgot about the girls with gold teeth and heavy hips.

Born out of lived experience, Ghetto Gospel blends spoken word, visual art, and cultural styling to honor Black womanhood in all its divine contradictions. Ratchet and righteous. Hard and holy. It’s the sound of Sunday morning after a Saturday night. It’s healing in a hair wrap. It’s scripture in slang. It’s the sacred and the street dancing in the same sanctuary.

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This project was inspired by the women who raised me, the voices in my head and the voices in my hood, by Lauryn Hill, by the Book of Psalms, by the grandmamas with good purses full of peppermints and attitude. It’s rooted in the idea that holiness is not about performance. It's about presence.

I asked myself
What does sanctified look like in a crop top and overalls?
What happens when we let the saints be seen, even if they cuss sometimes?
What if Black girls didn’t have to choose between the choir and the cypher?

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Ghetto Gospel is unfolding in layers

• A live poetry experience

• A visual art series

• A photo collection where couture church fashion meets hip-hop aesthetics

• A limited-run chapbook featuring poems, prayers, and praise reports

Each piece is a sermon. Each photo is a psalm. Each moment is a mirror for every Black woman who’s ever been told she was too much and still chose to show up whole.

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Because we’re tired of hiding our halos
Because divinity lives in the details. Lace fronts. Long nails. Late-night prayers
Because the gospel ain’t just Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It’s Megan, Missy, Lauryn, and your mama too
Because God is not afraid of our glitter