Hip Hop Nursery Rhymes

Fred Pace of The Register obviously has his pulse on the community. This is a great piece on how a local Partor is reaching out to the community.

“I want some Apple Bottom jeans,” the 16-year-old Mount Hope High School student said.

Apple Bottoms is a clothing line by hip hop rapper Nelly that caters to females of all shapes and sizes who are trendy and fashion forward.

Stacey Spadaro says if The Hook Up didn’t accept clothing vouchers, her daughter probably would have not been able to get the jeans.

“We are not rich people and the clothing vouchers help when you’re buying school clothes,” she explained. “Bless Pastor Robert Hicks for making it so all children have a chance to have some cool urban style clothing.”

Pastor Hicks, owner of The Hook Up, says he uses his business as another way to reach out to today’s youth.

“I really try to cater to the youth,” Hicks said. “It gives me an opportunity to talk with them, find out what issues and problems they have going on in their lives and reach out to them for support.”

Hicks is pastor at the Glorious Church of God and Christ, a Pentecostal church.

“We have churches all over the state, but I pastor the church in Logan,” he said.

Hicks lives in Oak Hill and has been in the clothing business for a long time, but he has only had his Beckley store for the past two years.

There is good all around us and all one has to do to find it is look. Hip Hop may not be the Lord’s music but one Pastor is certainly using it as his vehicle.