Christian hip hop's identity crisis you know I've
been seeing it for a while and I think
it's hitting ahead right now with Lecrae
departing from Christian hip-hop and you
know it's been doing it for a while now
I think it's a large reason why
Christian hip-hop feels a bit confused
right now because Lecrae came up known
as a Christian hip-hop artist and he was
the head of it and now that he's making
a conscious effort to really get out of
that box as you would call it we have seen a
decline in Christian hip-hop with the
attraction that people have to it so
with lecrae's departure of Christian
hip-hop we're left with a whole group of
younger people who mostly looked up to
him as their figurehead and they see
Him going mainstream so naturally they
want to go mainstream so now which that
has also created a divide between the
people who are very very Pro God talk
about God every second line and then the
people who want to be more socially
acceptable and have their music sounding
more worldly and it's created this kind
of rift whether it's talked about or not
where there's the Christian hip-hop artists
who aspire to be known by mainstream
people and then there's the ones who
just want to get God out and also that
with different views on Christianity so
Calvinists, Arminians all the different
kind of theologies that has that does
have a bit of a rift more with the old
people though I don't think the young
people care about it as much and with
all those combined its kind of left
Christian hip-hop in a weird space you
know with music genres you always have
to have a figure head and I know some
people might disagree with that but it's
just true, Drake Is I guess he's not full
rap but you've got those big
figureheads of rap who If you took
them away it kind of leaves an empty
space there so you have all the big ones
right now so Drake Kendrick Lamar JCole
Kanye West and then you have the older
ones
or the goats as some people call them
and without that framework there we're
kind of left a bit empty so Lecrae is
probably by far the biggest figurehead
there are other big names but they're
not as relevant as lecrae's they don't
come out with stuff as much as Lecrae
I'm referring to all the other reach
records artists so trip lee, kb, tedashii
now Gawvi and aha gazelle and now
that he's gone and the others are kind
of in between because you know trip lee's
a pastor, kb is i don't know what's
happening with KB been waiting for
a while for his latest stuff to come out
but you know Tedashii hes... you don't really
see much of him in the public light too
much I mean it does have some hits like
jumped out the whip and the latest ones
free like I said that quite a bit on the
radio but he's not as much of a public
figure as Lecrae is and when he he's
out of the picture it kind of leaves us
in a weird space you know we've got
people rising up very quickly like NF
he's become I guess arrival in a way to
lecrae obviously his music style is
pretty different but I guess since
Lecrae is distancing himself away from
Christian hip-hop more NF is probably going
to become more that figurehead even
though he's kinda in the same space where
he he's just a rapper who wants to be a
Christian you know he goes down that
line of thinking you know it's kind of
left us in a weird space we've got all
these upcoming artists I think I went
over some of them and my top 10 video
like Ty Brasel nobigdyl or
dyl and I kind of slept on him for a
bit and then I listened to canopy very
very high quality project all these new
artist there quality is very very high and
there is a bit of a vacuum there and
it's just a really weird space at the
moment we don't have an identity as
Christian hip-hop we've also got people
like chance the rapper Kendrick Lamar
with Chance The Rapper getting the Grammy and
do we consider it in Christian artists
Kendrick Lamar talking about putting out
a new album with God as the center do we
consider that a Christian album if its got
a lot of cursing in it and sexual themes
and you know
the younger generation tends to go towards
consider them Christian and then
all the old people who are probably more
educated about the Bible they're
more on the side of not considering it
Christian and you know where I've seen a
big trend with a lot of these new
artists and I do kind of pinpoint it with
them following Lecrae and Lecrae did
kind of address it on Twitter saying
that these people trying to go
mainstream who are Christians and try to
reach the mainstream by going mainstream
but they don't have the spiritual
maturity and then a lot of these new
artists they sound so so worldly in their
music and it really does sound like they
want to be a mainstream rapper but
they're kind of held back by being a
Christian you know I don't really see a
way we can fix this at the moment
honestly cause we either need a new
figurehead of Christian hip-hop because
largely Lecrae was ambassador for
Christian hip-hop in a way every time he
goes to a radio station people always
ask him about being a Christian and now
it's kind of turned into just a man of
faith which I do it's kind of a cop out
in a way but guess i'll let that slide
but I let me know your thoughts on that
it's a very interesting time In
Christian hip-hop and I go and check out
some of my other videos lecrae's new
album release NF's new album release I
got a few videos on that on the
unreleased songs and I've also got a
video on chance the rapper and him being
a Christian or is he good for Christians
after his Grammy performance go and check
that out and yeah I've got a quite a few
videos up now so go and check out those
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