T wenty-five years ago, she was known only as “Baby Doe,” found abandoned under a stairwell at a Greensboro apartment complex. Today, Angel Thomas is a college graduate, entrepreneur and rising ...

Long before Chance The Rapper and Kanye West reflected on their relationship with God in their rhymes—and backed them up with tambourines, organs and their soulful, respective choirs—hip-hop has had ...

Christian hip-hop typically has two different types of rappers. There’s the youth pastor who uses hip-hop to spread the gospel to youth, and there’s the reformed hustler who zealously uses the gospel ...

There are more reasons than not to call Jesus a rapper. By the definitions of his day: a gangster rapper. Check the Bible, it’s all in there—a young ruffian delivering verses on street corners amongst ...

The connection between Hip-Hop and gospel music has always been a powerful way to share messages of faith and hope. At the 2025 Stellar Awards red carpet, Hip-Hop Wired asked some of the biggest names ...

CHICAGO — Chance the Rapper’s most significant new song doesn’t even appear on his acclaimed new mixtape, “Coloring Book.” On the jazzy, gospel-influenced outtake “Grown A— Kid,” left off the project ...

As the Christian music industry has grown -- the sector sold some 44 million copies last year -- the vehicles that contemporary Christian and gospel artists use to convey their message have evolved ...

Holy Hip-Hop – it is not just for the deeply religious and positive thinking. Today, rappers from the mainstream are moving away from the secular and reconnecting with a Christian faith that was once ...

Renowned French Romantic author Victor Hugo is credited with saying, “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” It makes us wonder about the unspoken and ...

Christian rap is having a mini-moment. Don’t laugh! Maybe it seems impossible in this post-Christian era, but the facts are indisputable: From the album chart to the court of law, MCs who love Jesus ...

Chance the Rapper is determined. The independent artist from Chicago is a hometown hero. At this point, it's common to see headlines scurry across your Twitter timeline about his efforts to make his ...

We at war with terrorism, racism but most of all we at war with ourselves. -- Kanye West, "Jesus Walks" It seemed at long last that commercial rap had finally come to Jesus. Thanks to "Jesus Walks," a ...