“I gotta something for you man…” were the words whispered by TobyMac before Jesus Freak by DC Talk exploded onto speakers everywhere in 1995. Christian rap’s biggest hip-hop act at the time would turn heads and drop jaws as they would forgo their pop-infused, sample-heavy hip-hop sounds with crunching, bellowing vocals, and heavy drums. Perhaps taking their cue from Nirvana, Jesus Freak ...

In part two of our interview with TobyMac about the early days of CHH, he digs deep into the DC Talk archives. The pioneer of Christian music explains his original emcee name and how he and Michael Tait “schemed” churches into playing hip-hop. “Very few people know this story,” said TobyMac. And anytime you hear that from someone with a ...

From the humble beginnings of Stephen Wiley, on to P.I.D., and D-Boy, Christian hip-hop started in the 80s as this tiny niche. No one back then could have imagined the lengths the genre would go roughly 35 years later. This slow build turned from a not accepted in the church unknown, to a mainstream crossing viable force in music. This ...

Christian music legends DC Talk made their long-awaited return last summer with the Jesus Freak Cruise in July. The announcement was met with much criticism as fans had been waiting roughly 15 years for a reunion. Despite this, it was a successful return and they will be doing it once more in 2019. According to JesusFreakCruise.com, the trio will embark June 10th through ...

Today's Throwback Thursday takes us back to 2001, when DC Talk's Kevin Max released his first solo album, Stereotype Be. One of Max's singles off the record was a song called "Existence," which featured a rap from GRITS member Coffee Jones.

Hip-Hop music is a major force in today’s music and culture, and it is hard to imagine a time without it. However, in the late 80s and early 90s it was still in its infancy which ...