5 Greatest Athletes in Christian Hip Hop


Bonus: Bubba Watson

Bubba Watson is rated the fourth best golfer in the PGA Tour’s Official World Golf Rank, and he was featured on one of 2015’s most popular Christian hip-hop singles in April. It’s been a good year for him.

Few hip-hop hobbyists have generated more buzz than Watson, a two-time Masters champion. His singles with his rap group the Golf Boys have amassed about 12 million views on YouTube, and the Thi’sl-written “Bubbaclaus” premiered on ESPN.

3. Graham Saber

Graham Saber is the least familiar name to Christian hip hop on this list, but the up-and-comer has already opened up for Lecrae and Tedashii at Franklin Graham festivals, as well as collaborated with the Newsboys’ Michael Tait and John Givez. For now, his name is more familiar in the west coast, water polo scene.

In high school, Saber earned sixth-team All-American honors for his performance at Sante Fe Christian High School, in addition to a slew of other awards. He went on to compete at the UC San Diego, one of the nation’s top water-polo programs.

As a senior, Saber led his team to its first conference championship in five years with 83 goals, the sixth-most for a single season in school history. He made too many all-star teams to list each of them, including NCAA first-team All-American and All-Tournament in the 2011 NCAA Championships. Saber carried UC San Diego’s offense en route to a fourth place finish in the national tourney, where they lost to eventual champion UCLA.

2. Willie Moore, Jr.

Willie Moore, Jr. was being humble when he released a single in March titled “My Walk.”

Naming it “My Run” would have been justified. Before Moore made noise as an artist, which included a collaborative album Best of Both Worlds with Bizzle in 2012, he was a track star.

Moore won multiple Missouri state track-and-field state championships at Berkeley High School, including the 100-meter dash and 4×100-meter relay in 1997. He took recruiting trips to Texas Tech and Kansas, but after winning states in the 100-meter, he put on an Ole Miss singlet.

“My dad, who adopted me when I was three months old,” Moore said, “he couldn’t go to Ole Miss when he was coming up because black people couldn’t go there.”

At Ole Miss, he made his way into the school record books for his performances in the 200-meter dash and 4×100-meter. Moore said he was on his way to Team USA’s trials for the World Championships in Athletics, but he pulled his Achilles tendon, changing his priority to music.

David Daniels
David Daniels
David Daniels is a columnist at Rapzilla.com and the managing editor of LegacyDisciple.org. He has been published at Desiring God, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, CCM Magazine, Bleacher Report, The Washington Times and HipHopDX.
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