Christian rapper KB shared his testimony and why he feels called to make faith-filled music.
“I was 16 years old when somebody gave me a Christian hiphop CD,” he said in an Instagram video. “It had a dude on the front cover. He had dreadlocks like mine, he had a red bandana going across his forehead, a red bandana going across his mouth. And the album was called Bloody Streets.”
KB joked, “I said, ‘Listen, bro, I have no degree at Lifeway Christian bookstores, but this is not Christian rap. This man’s about to rob a bank.’ [My friend] said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. This is Christian hiphop. You take it home.’”
“I was in a dark, dark place,” the artist explained. “I took that album home. I listened to the album front to back, and the eighth song was a gospel presentation, and I believed on Jesus listening to that album. And I’ve been walking with Him ever since. And I vowed to the Lord Jesus that I would spend my life trying to reproduce that moment for people all over the world, like it happened to me.”
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KB often shares his views on the importance of Christian rap and hiphop, telling Guideposts, “We’re changing the narrative of Christian rap.”
“As opposed to trying to divorce ourselves from Christian rap — because people are going to call you what they’re going to call you. It’s not what they’re used to. We’ve been able to really redeem it,” he explained. “So now, moving forward, people are going to say, ‘No, Christian rap is good, because these guys are killing it.’ I think we’re going to be earning the name.”
In an interview with Christian Headlines, KB shared his hope to “return to that era of seeing Christian hip-hop as a powerful way that we might bring revival.”
“Think about what we can rejoice over — that the Gospel is being preached, churches are being strengthened and people are coming to Christ,” he added.
KB recently released new track “ANGEL ARMIES,” where the artist raps, “When you come to handle me // There’s another hand on me // Even when they all abandon me // God got the destiny, I see no enemy.”
Christian hiphop changed KB’s life, and today, he works to do the same through his music.
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