August 8, 2025 • 14 mins
J Whitehead is one of Christian Hip Hop’s hottest new artists. In this episode of The Christian Music Bro Podcast, the New York-born rapper talks about his debut single “Sticks & Stones”, his journey into music, and how Jesus changed his life.
We dive into his story of faith, his role as a father, and the lessons he’s learned on his walk with God. Whether you’re a Christian rap fan, a parent, or someone looking for an encouraging testimony, this episode will inspire and challenge you.
Topics Covered:
We dive into his story of faith, his role as a father, and the lessons he’s learned on his walk with God. Whether you’re a Christian rap fan, a parent, or someone looking for an encouraging testimony, this episode will inspire and challenge you.
Topics Covered:
- Story behind Sticks & Stones
- How Jesus transformed his life
- Balancing fatherhood and music
- The future of Christian Hip Hop
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have a brand new artist on the podcast today.
It's his first ever interview. James. It's nice to sit
down with you today and meet you today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you. It's nice to meet you as well.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And James, you said, this is like your first ever
like podcast interview slash interview, so it's really exciting. I
hope you have a great time. And for those who
are watching, James Whitehead is his name, and I'm gonna
let James introduces himself a little bit on the Christian
Music Bro podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
My name is James Whitehead. I am a very new
Christian artist. I'm not new to music. I've been out
producing music for probably like.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Eight years now mab eight nine years.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
But this is my first time actually being the person that's,
you know, in front of the camera now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Usually i'm behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I feel that before I started this podcast, I was
a little behind the scenes. I didn't want to behind
the scenes stuff and I was like, I want to
do something different. So now I'm in front of the
camera again after taking video classes in high school. But
it's just nice to see another behind the scenes guy
that's now in front of the camera.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, it's I'm still getting used to it still getting
used to really taking my own music seriously and putting
it out there. And you know, it's this, it's it's
very it's different. It's all I can sense.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It takes time to the justice. I'm learning curve. Everything's
a learning curve nowadays. So but thank you for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And for those who are watching this channel, remember the
white follow ups debscribed to the channel. We have a
lot of great things coming up, like you to give
me a new artist today and James, and we're gonna
learn a bit about James and his journey so far.
So for those who then met James, can you tell
us a little bit how you got started in your
music industry? Like talk a little bit like what maybe
you said you were behind the scenes producing for like
(01:46):
eight years and now you're an artist. Can tell us,
but maybe you decide to make music as like an artist?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, stop playing basketball and I really needed something, you know,
after college, I stopped playing basketball and I needed something
else to fulfill that avoid So started making beats and
I got really good at it, and then you know,
I started producing for local artists. At the time, I
(02:12):
was living in North Carolina, when I started. So first
started in North Carolina, then moved out up to Jersey
where I am now New Jersey and producing for a
lot of people in the South Jersey area, and recently
stopped really producing for other people. And now I'm putting
my own music out and it's just crazy. Like when
(02:33):
I first it's my first time really doing the music
for real, and now I'm a Christian artist.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's just crazy how that happens.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Just released your first song we just talked about like
two weeks ago. At the time of recording this episode,
I used to say, this episode will probably be up
in the next week or so, so surprise everybody. But
can you talk a little bit about that song? It
was called Six of the Stones. Can it tell us,
like what inspired you to write it? What was the
writing process of that song, because it was like your
first song you ever wrote. Well an artist, I should say.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So, it's not the first song I ever wrote as
an artist.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's it's not even the first song I ever wrote
as a Christian artist. The first song ever wrote as
a Christian artist, the one that kind of like started everything.
I haven't put it out yet. I really hold that song.
Theare in my heart. But because it started.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Everything but Sticks and Stones came, you know. I was
because I was a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Trap producer, trapping R and B producer, and I was like, man,
God called me to make Christian music, and He's called
me to make Christian music plenty of times. I just
didn't listen, you know. So I was like, all right,
start being obedient, and I'm like, do I have to
make new beats? I was like, do I gotta make
new beats? I was like, I don't know. So I
(03:47):
was like, no, I don't think I have to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Make new beats.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think I can praise God on the trap beats
I have. You know, Stick and Stones is just my
version of praising God over what would I guess people
would call a SECULARS and beat, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm praising God the whole time.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And just telling you know, my story of being pretty
much being disobedient, you know, to what God wanted me
to do, and really I had to let go of
the world and trust him, you know, trust that, you
know He's got it. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I was researching you when Matt Matt told me about you.
I want to play the song I saw one for
your Instagram page, and it's really cool. You're getting what
you're doing a lot of creative reels. Can you tell
us a little about what your creative process is for
the reels and like what you want to engage from that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So even that.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm new to just even that, you know, uh, it's
really just me. So I did use I used to
have a manager when I was producing, but we kind
of fell out. So now it's just me figuring everything out,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I just pray about it. You know, I'll figure it out.
You know. I've been getting a lot of good feedback.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I've been just you know, trying to be as creative
as possible with what I have, you know, just the
iPhone and the tripod, you know, and it seems to
be working. A lot of people enjoy enjoy the song
and it's starting to find people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Really exciting to hear and for those listening to the song,
I recommend checking it out. Check out James's Instagram page.
I'll make sure to tag him and stuff later. You know.
The drill by now if you're a news if you're
returning to the channel and chat out is real something
to reels are actually really engaging and really gathers an audience,
and it's really cool to see those reels like be interactive.
And I guess real are now like a newer way
(05:49):
to get music across and I think it's a multi
platform thing like you can do real. TikTok is full
of pretty much reels basically, or you call them tiktoks,
but they're the same thing basically Instagram shorts, you Tube shorts,
and I've and you like, that's up a future and
it's going to be more help discover more artists.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
With James right here, Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Do you have any goals or dreams that like you
wanted to come up with, like in the next year
or two, Like let's your goal, like you want you
want to gather with your music, like.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Uh, you know, uh, everybody's been asking me that, like
what what's the goal? And I'm like, I don't know,
because you know, for the longest, I just wanted to
be behind the scenes guy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I wanted to be the guy that supports the superstar.
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I wanted to be the one that supports the superstar,
not actually be the superstar.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But you know, this is what God called me. To do.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So really, I I just want to, you know, I
feel like with my production and the way I write
songs and especially the way I write hooks, that I
could really latch onto the youth in a very positive way.
I remember I played uh, I played Sticks and Stones
(07:03):
for a couple of kids, and they're like, wow, I
didn't I didn't know Christian raports sound like this, and
I was like, yeah, I guess sound like this. So
they were surprised that it was actually a song praising God,
and I was like, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
With that, Like you said, like the younger audience you
showed that song. Do you have like any advice for
anyone else in your shoes out or like I guess,
like a newer artist or like a younger audience don't
want to get involved in like the music industry or
being in a producing wise and everything. Do you have
any advice for those people?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Just do it?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, just do it when you first start out.
It's not gonna be perfect, it's gonna be far from perfect.
You just gotta keep going. You know, you're gonna get
better every day no matter what you do. The more
you do something, you're gonna get better and then eventually
you're gonna find your own way of doing things and
that's going to create your own sound.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, and everyone every sounds unique. I feel like a
Chris Shunt hip hop, R and B stage is ever
involving it. I think it's growing in the last two
to three years. I would say, like you have like
a lot of artists emerge like Niles Minic and all
those like those those people are just like disguy's the
limit in that genre right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I'm I'm learning about the genre itself. Like the
only artists I even knew was Forest Frank. I was
like it, that's the only orgist I do. But now
I'm learning about so many other artists, and there's so
many incredible Christian artists.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's like I'm like, Wow, it's like a whole world.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That the world doesn't really know about yet exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Do you have any musical influences in your journey, Like,
like you said, you've been producing and you're a newer artist,
but do you have like any musical inspirations like that's
why who motivated me to make my song? Or this
is whose beats I really enjoy and inspired me?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So I mean, honestly, so I grew up with music
in my family.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Like from both sides of my family and my mom's
side of my dad's side. Everybody can play an instrument,
but me, I was the one that was outside of
playing sports. But everybody can play an instrument, and you know,
so me getting involved in music was not like it
(09:28):
wasn't like surprising anybody. I was like, oh, yeah, we've
all tried it before. And as far as influence, I
was heavily influenced by early Kanye early Kanye West.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's really it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
D you played sports? What sports did you played? Just curious?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I played basketball in college a Methodist University for three years.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, so what else do I played?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I played football in high school, played baseball in high school.
But basketball, that's just the one I loved, so I
chose to do that in college.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
A favorite basketball team or player.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I don't have a favorite.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I don't have a favorite team, but I would say
my favorite player right now is Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I like Luca.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It's just something about the way he plays. It's just
it's just so smooth. I don't know, it's just something
about the way he plays.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's so smooth, and it's fun because I just interviewed
an artists in Jordan Mayre. He's a big basketball fan too,
and we were talking about basketball from the Benacus. But
it was pulling because I was in actually Nashville when
the Luca trade happened last year. Like all I stided
that like just exploded out of nowhere. I was in
the middle of like an artist meeting and then the
Luca tradeer coming out everywhere. So like I was meeting
Christian artists and I alwas to have Luca traded, and
(10:52):
I was like, bro, Luca Dodgers just got created and
we got suck in our meeting talked about that.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, yeah, that trade was and that was crazy. I
couldn't I couldn't believe that was real. I was like, no,
there's no way exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I was like, whoa, but I don't know where I
just have a few extra minutes with you today. Is
there anything you want to talk about, Like if you
have any words to wisdom or anything you want to
share that's on your heart or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Where is a wisdom?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I would say, uh, just speaking from personal experience, it
would be a lot easier, especially for me, had I
been obedient to God the first eighty million times we
want to do. I feel like it would have been
you know, especially because I have kids. And you know,
a big reason why I wanted to do Christian rap
(11:41):
was just because, like I would produce songs or even write,
because I would write songs too, and I wouldn't let
my kids listen to them. And then God put it
on my heart to like really sit me down and
think about it, Well, why don't you want your.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Kids listening today?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Well, because of the way it sounds, it's not really
there's nothing anything positive in here that I would want
them to repeat or do.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So it's like, so, then why are you making you.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Should be proud, Like I should be proud to show
my kids a song, you know, like, hey, this is
what I did.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But instead, you know, like it's it's just ridiculous. I
have to go into the.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Car to mix a song because I don't want my
kids to repeat what they hear.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's that's that's outrageous. No, and that's really what you know.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That was a big reason wh I was like, yeah, yeah,
you're right, God, I need to do it your way,
cause you know, kids will repeat what they hear and
some of the things my kids say, I know where
they got it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
From, you know. So oh and by the way, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I have four kids, three girls, one boy, so they
were a big inspiration for me to want to do
Christian rap.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And like we talked, we talked about I talked about
just in an earlier episode today when I was filming
an episode. Only plays a big part of your community.
And it's always great to have your family to support
you whatever you do. And it's great to have like
a big family connection like you're making the songs, like
get all of your kids and everything and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, and now you know, now my daughter wants to
write songs. She's learning the guitar, so now she wants
to write songs. And no, I'm excited to be able
to help it with that too.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So that's awesome, awesome, and we could have a learned
it from like writing songs and everything. So yeah, James,
I want to thank you for joining me today and
everyone I recommend checking out James's music. He has a
lot of good reels on Instagram if you want to
follow his Instagram, check out his songs sticks. His stone
on Spotify is worth the whisten and James, thank you.
Again for joining me today.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Thank you for having me his first interview. Hopefully I'll
be able to do some more. Thank you you are
officially my first.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's crazy and for those who are watching, remember the
like and balls described to my channel. Make sure to
like and fall described it to the James channel, follow
him on Instagram. All men on TikTok, you can finally
find them everywhere and we'll hope to see you next time.
We have a brand new artist on the podcast today.
It's his first ever interview. James. It's nice to sit
down with you today and meet you today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you. It's nice to meet you as well.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And James, you said, this is like your first ever
like podcast interview slash interview, so it's really exciting. I
hope you have a great time. And for those who
are watching, James Whitehead is his name, and I'm gonna
let James introduces himself a little bit on the Christian
Music Bro podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
My name is James Whitehead. I am a very new
Christian artist. I'm not new to music. I've been out
producing music for probably like.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Eight years now mab eight nine years.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
But this is my first time actually being the person that's,
you know, in front of the camera now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Usually i'm behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I feel that before I started this podcast, I was
a little behind the scenes. I didn't want to behind
the scenes stuff and I was like, I want to
do something different. So now I'm in front of the
camera again after taking video classes in high school. But
it's just nice to see another behind the scenes guy
that's now in front of the camera.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, it's I'm still getting used to it still getting
used to really taking my own music seriously and putting
it out there. And you know, it's this, it's it's
very it's different. It's all I can sense.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It takes time to the justice. I'm learning curve. Everything's
a learning curve nowadays. So but thank you for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And for those who are watching this channel, remember the
white follow ups debscribed to the channel. We have a
lot of great things coming up, like you to give
me a new artist today and James, and we're gonna
learn a bit about James and his journey so far.
So for those who then met James, can you tell
us a little bit how you got started in your
music industry? Like talk a little bit like what maybe
you said you were behind the scenes producing for like
(01:46):
eight years and now you're an artist. Can tell us,
but maybe you decide to make music as like an artist?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, stop playing basketball and I really needed something, you know,
after college, I stopped playing basketball and I needed something
else to fulfill that avoid So started making beats and
I got really good at it, and then you know,
I started producing for local artists. At the time, I
(02:12):
was living in North Carolina, when I started. So first
started in North Carolina, then moved out up to Jersey
where I am now New Jersey and producing for a
lot of people in the South Jersey area, and recently
stopped really producing for other people. And now I'm putting
my own music out and it's just crazy. Like when
(02:33):
I first it's my first time really doing the music
for real, and now I'm a Christian artist.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's just crazy how that happens.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Just released your first song we just talked about like
two weeks ago. At the time of recording this episode,
I used to say, this episode will probably be up
in the next week or so, so surprise everybody. But
can you talk a little bit about that song? It
was called Six of the Stones. Can it tell us,
like what inspired you to write it? What was the
writing process of that song, because it was like your
first song you ever wrote. Well an artist, I should say.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So, it's not the first song I ever wrote as
an artist.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's it's not even the first song I ever wrote
as a Christian artist. The first song ever wrote as
a Christian artist, the one that kind of like started everything.
I haven't put it out yet. I really hold that song.
Theare in my heart. But because it started.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Everything but Sticks and Stones came, you know. I was
because I was a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Trap producer, trapping R and B producer, and I was like, man,
God called me to make Christian music, and He's called
me to make Christian music plenty of times. I just
didn't listen, you know. So I was like, all right,
start being obedient, and I'm like, do I have to
make new beats? I was like, do I gotta make
new beats? I was like, I don't know. So I
(03:47):
was like, no, I don't think I have to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Make new beats.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think I can praise God on the trap beats
I have. You know, Stick and Stones is just my
version of praising God over what would I guess people
would call a SECULARS and beat, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm praising God the whole time.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And just telling you know, my story of being pretty
much being disobedient, you know, to what God wanted me
to do, and really I had to let go of
the world and trust him, you know, trust that, you
know He's got it. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I was researching you when Matt Matt told me about you.
I want to play the song I saw one for
your Instagram page, and it's really cool. You're getting what
you're doing a lot of creative reels. Can you tell
us a little about what your creative process is for
the reels and like what you want to engage from that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So even that.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm new to just even that, you know, uh, it's
really just me. So I did use I used to
have a manager when I was producing, but we kind
of fell out. So now it's just me figuring everything out,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I just pray about it. You know, I'll figure it out.
You know. I've been getting a lot of good feedback.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I've been just you know, trying to be as creative
as possible with what I have, you know, just the
iPhone and the tripod, you know, and it seems to
be working. A lot of people enjoy enjoy the song
and it's starting to find people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Really exciting to hear and for those listening to the song,
I recommend checking it out. Check out James's Instagram page.
I'll make sure to tag him and stuff later. You know.
The drill by now if you're a news if you're
returning to the channel and chat out is real something
to reels are actually really engaging and really gathers an audience,
and it's really cool to see those reels like be interactive.
And I guess real are now like a newer way
(05:49):
to get music across and I think it's a multi
platform thing like you can do real. TikTok is full
of pretty much reels basically, or you call them tiktoks,
but they're the same thing basically Instagram shorts, you Tube shorts,
and I've and you like, that's up a future and
it's going to be more help discover more artists.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
With James right here, Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Do you have any goals or dreams that like you
wanted to come up with, like in the next year
or two, Like let's your goal, like you want you
want to gather with your music, like.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Uh, you know, uh, everybody's been asking me that, like
what what's the goal? And I'm like, I don't know,
because you know, for the longest, I just wanted to
be behind the scenes guy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I wanted to be the guy that supports the superstar.
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I wanted to be the one that supports the superstar,
not actually be the superstar.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But you know, this is what God called me. To do.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So really, I I just want to, you know, I
feel like with my production and the way I write
songs and especially the way I write hooks, that I
could really latch onto the youth in a very positive way.
I remember I played uh, I played Sticks and Stones
(07:03):
for a couple of kids, and they're like, wow, I
didn't I didn't know Christian raports sound like this, and
I was like, yeah, I guess sound like this. So
they were surprised that it was actually a song praising God,
and I was like, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
With that, Like you said, like the younger audience you
showed that song. Do you have like any advice for
anyone else in your shoes out or like I guess,
like a newer artist or like a younger audience don't
want to get involved in like the music industry or
being in a producing wise and everything. Do you have
any advice for those people?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Just do it?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, just do it when you first start out.
It's not gonna be perfect, it's gonna be far from perfect.
You just gotta keep going. You know, you're gonna get
better every day no matter what you do. The more
you do something, you're gonna get better and then eventually
you're gonna find your own way of doing things and
that's going to create your own sound.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, and everyone every sounds unique. I feel like a
Chris Shunt hip hop, R and B stage is ever
involving it. I think it's growing in the last two
to three years. I would say, like you have like
a lot of artists emerge like Niles Minic and all
those like those those people are just like disguy's the
limit in that genre right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I'm I'm learning about the genre itself. Like the
only artists I even knew was Forest Frank. I was
like it, that's the only orgist I do. But now
I'm learning about so many other artists, and there's so
many incredible Christian artists.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's like I'm like, Wow, it's like a whole world.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That the world doesn't really know about yet exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Do you have any musical influences in your journey, Like,
like you said, you've been producing and you're a newer artist,
but do you have like any musical inspirations like that's
why who motivated me to make my song? Or this
is whose beats I really enjoy and inspired me?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So I mean, honestly, so I grew up with music
in my family.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Like from both sides of my family and my mom's
side of my dad's side. Everybody can play an instrument,
but me, I was the one that was outside of
playing sports. But everybody can play an instrument, and you know,
so me getting involved in music was not like it
(09:28):
wasn't like surprising anybody. I was like, oh, yeah, we've
all tried it before. And as far as influence, I
was heavily influenced by early Kanye early Kanye West.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's really it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
D you played sports? What sports did you played? Just curious?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I played basketball in college a Methodist University for three years.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, so what else do I played?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I played football in high school, played baseball in high school.
But basketball, that's just the one I loved, so I
chose to do that in college.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
A favorite basketball team or player.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I don't have a favorite.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I don't have a favorite team, but I would say
my favorite player right now is Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I like Luca.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It's just something about the way he plays. It's just
it's just so smooth. I don't know, it's just something
about the way he plays.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's so smooth, and it's fun because I just interviewed
an artists in Jordan Mayre. He's a big basketball fan too,
and we were talking about basketball from the Benacus. But
it was pulling because I was in actually Nashville when
the Luca trade happened last year. Like all I stided
that like just exploded out of nowhere. I was in
the middle of like an artist meeting and then the
Luca tradeer coming out everywhere. So like I was meeting
Christian artists and I alwas to have Luca traded, and
(10:52):
I was like, bro, Luca Dodgers just got created and
we got suck in our meeting talked about that.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, yeah, that trade was and that was crazy. I
couldn't I couldn't believe that was real. I was like, no,
there's no way exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I was like, whoa, but I don't know where I
just have a few extra minutes with you today. Is
there anything you want to talk about, Like if you
have any words to wisdom or anything you want to
share that's on your heart or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Where is a wisdom?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I would say, uh, just speaking from personal experience, it
would be a lot easier, especially for me, had I
been obedient to God the first eighty million times we
want to do. I feel like it would have been
you know, especially because I have kids. And you know,
a big reason why I wanted to do Christian rap
(11:41):
was just because, like I would produce songs or even write,
because I would write songs too, and I wouldn't let
my kids listen to them. And then God put it
on my heart to like really sit me down and
think about it, Well, why don't you want your.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Kids listening today?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Well, because of the way it sounds, it's not really
there's nothing anything positive in here that I would want
them to repeat or do.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So it's like, so, then why are you making you.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Should be proud, Like I should be proud to show
my kids a song, you know, like, hey, this is
what I did.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But instead, you know, like it's it's just ridiculous. I
have to go into the.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Car to mix a song because I don't want my
kids to repeat what they hear.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's that's that's outrageous. No, and that's really what you know.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That was a big reason wh I was like, yeah, yeah,
you're right, God, I need to do it your way,
cause you know, kids will repeat what they hear and
some of the things my kids say, I know where
they got it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
From, you know. So oh and by the way, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I have four kids, three girls, one boy, so they
were a big inspiration for me to want to do
Christian rap.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And like we talked, we talked about I talked about
just in an earlier episode today when I was filming
an episode. Only plays a big part of your community.
And it's always great to have your family to support
you whatever you do. And it's great to have like
a big family connection like you're making the songs, like
get all of your kids and everything and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, and now you know, now my daughter wants to
write songs. She's learning the guitar, so now she wants
to write songs. And no, I'm excited to be able
to help it with that too.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So that's awesome, awesome, and we could have a learned
it from like writing songs and everything. So yeah, James,
I want to thank you for joining me today and
everyone I recommend checking out James's music. He has a
lot of good reels on Instagram if you want to
follow his Instagram, check out his songs sticks. His stone
on Spotify is worth the whisten and James, thank you.
Again for joining me today.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Thank you for having me his first interview. Hopefully I'll
be able to do some more. Thank you you are
officially my first.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's crazy and for those who are watching, remember the
like and balls described to my channel. Make sure to
like and fall described it to the James channel, follow
him on Instagram. All men on TikTok, you can finally
find them everywhere and we'll hope to see you next time.
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