Song Title: If You Want Love Artist: NF Album: Perception Release: 2017 Genre: Rap/R&B Producing three succeeding albums in three short years, NF has emerged as an increasingly popular artist within the rap genre, topping both secular and Christian [...]
Artist: NF Label: Capitol CMG, Real Music LLC Genre: Rap Following the growing popularity of his previous two albums, NF (Nathan Feuerstein) returns in 2017 with his third installment, Perception. Continuing to draw on themes of mental health and personal [...]
Artist: Beautiful Eulogy Label: Humble Beast Genre: Rap/Spoken Word When Beautiful Eulogy announced the creation of a third EP album, the critical success of their previous two albums left no doubt the trio would deliver a sound, rich composition. Praised [...]
Artist: Sho Baraka Label: Humble Beast Records Genre: Rap/Hip Hop On June 14th we received some very big news: that Sho Baraka was signed to Humble Beast Records. Sho already chose to leave Reach Records in 2011. A few years later, he independently [...]
After reading the title of this article, you’ve probably readied your “Heresy” memes. Know that I am not writing this article to plead a case for the genre, even though in just about every genre there can be toxic messages within the [...]
Artist: Lecrae Label: Reach Records Producers: Black Knight, Epikh Pro, GAWVI, Mykalife, Ryan Righteous, S1, Shindo, VohnBeatz Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap On January 15th, Lecrae came out with a surprise 3rd album in his Church Clothes mixtape series. Following [...]
Song Title: What You Mean Artist: Flame and Fedel Album: Clear Sight Music Presents: Jesus or Nothing Label: Clear Sight Music Genre: Rap Time: 3:56 Content Warning: Even though this is a Christian rap song, it contains some metaphors about violence. When [...]
Artist: Stephen the Levite Label: Lamp Mode Producer: N/A Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap Often, artists of Christian hip-hop fall neatly into one of two camps: gospel rappers, speaking to the culture with the simple message of Jesus, or lyrical theologians, [...]
Artist: Social Club Label: Independent Producer: N/A Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap One thing I admire about Social Club is that they have always embraced their fans. I haven’t seen an actor, Christian or secular, cater to their fan circles as much as Social Club [...]
A while back I wrote an article about little known Christian rappers. In it, I featured the Dream Junkies. They consist of John Givez, Beleaf Melanin, and the artist of today’s album, Ruslan. This group’s sound is different than the [...]
When I listen to an album, I can usually tell by the first song if the it will be good or not. Don’t get me wrong, I have listened to many albums where I very much enjoyed the first song and the rest was mediocre, and I have also listened to lame [...]
A couple of months ago, my fellow penman here at GUG, Shawn Bain, wrote an article titled “Read This Before condemning Christian Metal” If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest you read the article. Personally, I enjoyed it so much I felt I should [...]
A lot of you out there probably don’t know any Christian rappers. Shame on you! Comedy aside, I know this is a small genre, but it’s also a growing genre. If you have heard of some rappers, I’m pretty sure they were Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Trip Lee, KB, [...]
For the last couple of years, the Christian Rap genre has been in a movement. The artists felt like their genre wasn’t getting the respect it deserved. So instead of staying quiet and waiting for it to come, they decided to let their talents force people [...]