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deal with [being dismissed as copies of secular rappers]. We have something [original] to say, we have a style of music that isn\u2019t just reproducing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re changing the narrative of Christian rap. As opposed to trying to divorce ourselves from Christian rap &#8212; because people are going to call you what they\u2019re going to call you. It\u2019s not what they\u2019re used to. We\u2019ve been able to really redeem it. So now, moving forward, people are going to say, &#8216;No, Christian rap is good, because these guys are killing it.&#8217; I think we\u2019re going to be earning the name.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Critics across the industry agree and have praised KB for his ability to push the envelope stylistically and break out of the traditional boundaries of Christian hip hop. His second single, the conviction-stirring, soul-level cry to God, \u201cCrowns and Thorns\u201d is a layers-deep confession of someone who, like Paul, longs to do God\u2019s will but wrestles with sin:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Struggling, oh, I be struggling \/ My idols are mimicking Jesus \/ I bury my sin, in 3 days it\u2019s back up again<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI want to make music about the kinds of things that keep me up at night,\u201d the artist says of his new album. Influenced by his love for history and the early church and recorded in South Africa, <em>Tomorrow <\/em>is an album for the oppressed and his latest single, the high-energy \u201cI Believe\u201d is its anthem. With its war cry, \u201cI believe that we will win!\u201d KB speaks to people facing impossible circumstances\u2014cancer, institutional racism, suicide and poverty, to name a few\u2014and provides them with a new hope in Christ. <span style=\"line-height: 1.428571429;\">It\u2019s a raw look at what makes the man and the artist tick; what inspires him, what motivates him and what pains him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even more revealing than the lyrics on his new album is the short documentary he filmed to accompany his sophomore release. In it, KB gives his fans a look inside his own closet, pulling out his skeletons to introduce his music and his life\u2019s purpose to others who may draw strength from sharing in the journey. <\/p>\n<p>KB was born Kevin Burgess. The artist\u2019s parents divorced when he was a child and his father abandoned the family. KB and his mother had to live in an unsafe community on the south side of St. Petersburg, Florida. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does things to you psychologically [when you are not] trying to live but [just] trying to survive. When you think of life all through the lens of survival as opposed to trying to build a life, it does something to you,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The artist has also been open about the impact his broken relationship with his father had on him and his documentary expands on that, revealing details about his long search for his dad. He hired a private investigator&#8211;and discovered that the man who created and abandoned him had died just a few years earlier. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/positive-living-0\/hillsong-united-building-an-empire\">READ MORE: HILLSONG UNITED: BUILDING AN EMPIRE<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge is talking about him in a way that\u2019s honest but also honoring,\u201d KB says of the on-camera search for his dad. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize that a piece of my identity was missing in not knowing who my real father was. I almost immediately felt healing when I found out what he was and what he was about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, his pain and struggles have shaped both him and his craft. \u201cI think the most beautiful thing is that it\u2019s really given me a heart of compassion. I wouldn\u2019t change it for the world,\u201d KB says of his difficult childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven living in fear and in an under-resourced environment, it opened my heart. I feel so much compassion towards people who are there. I want my life\u2019s work to empower and help people who are there. Everybody is fighting a battle that is deeper than you could ever imagine, so be kind to them, be patient with them. They\u2019re hurting just like you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a kind, patient and encouraging mother, he excelled in school and was accepted into an accelerated college program, though he was just a junior in high school. But more than just his life changed as a result\u2014his soul changed too.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got into this program\u2014such an amazing program\u2014and it didn\u2019t satisfy me,\u201d KB says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t enough. The American dream isn\u2019t enough. It was at that point when I was introduced to Jesus, that I was able to find purpose.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.428571429;\">A friend handed him a Christian rapper&#8217;s CD of at lunch one day on campus and he heard the Gospel presented on wax; that began his love affair with Christ and hip hop. He graduated from Trinity College with a degree in theology and wound up forming an alliance of creatives and missionaries called HGA (His Glory Alone). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flash forward a few years and KB is now one of the most exciting artists to watch in the hip-hop world, making healing music from which those struggling with their own issues can draw encouragement and motivation. It\u2019s the purpose behind his new record and, more important, the reason he believes God put him on this planet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Tomorrow We Live<\/em> expands on the idea that God hasn\u2019t forgot about us,\u201d KB said. \u201cIt may be difficult today, we may not have a lot to sing about today, but we can always look forward to where He\u2019s taking us; where we will be, how things will be and use that to fuel what we\u2019re doing today. <em>Tomorrow We Live<\/em> isn\u2019t about forgetting about today and waiting for something to happen, it\u2019s about being encouraged because we know we will win. We know things are settled. We know we\u2019re moving towards a better existence; therefore, we care about fighting hard to bring that into today\u2019s reality.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to pigeonhole hip-hop artist KB is a lot like trying to box in his music: impossible. 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