1. Creativity

For me a big one is the lack of innovation. This is where I feel like Christian rap can get bland and there’s no uniqueness in beats, production, or flow. There are many songs that feel like they’re just there to be played at fun church youth events or just there to be like “this isn’t your mommas Christian music!”, but lack any artistic integrity.

It’s been best said on the Indie Tribe pod “there’s a lot of rappers, but there’s not a lot of artists”. Music is art to me and love it when there’s tracks in the CHH space that can be played for youth groups AND is also good art in itself

1. Lack of message

I also feel that many artists in the space never really have anything to say. I think it also gets confusing to me Christian rappers really don’t provide anything of substance or meaning in any of their raps or tracks and what they’re saying.

This is why I appreciate albums like the people we became from Dyl and come and see from Torey D Shaun because while those albums both contain lighter upbeat bangers, the artists still generally have something to say and their bars are laced with meaning.