Hip Hop Is An Antichristian Religion
My work with rappers and managers forced me to see what this culture actually worships.
I didn't want to reach this conclusion.
Hip hop saved my life as a kid in suburban Chicago. Over the past two years, I've gotten to know high-level rap managers, artists, and industry executives. Some of these people are dear friends.
But I can't ignore what I've concluded.
Hip hop functions as a religion with its own theology, rituals, and promises of salvation. And that religion is fundamentally opposed to Christ.
The theology: serve yourself, accumulate status symbols, worship the flesh. Your value comes from what you own and who you dominate.
The rituals: jewelry companies selling chains to "feel like a boss," liquor brands promising success, car manufacturers offering identity through horsepower. Each purchase is worship in this materialist faith.
The promise: buy this, drink this, drive this, and achieve salvation through success. But it never delivers. It creates addiction to the next purchase, the next validation.
I've watched brilliant artists at the highest levels get trapped in this cycle. But they're just the visible casualties—millions, if not billions, of young people worldwide are infected by the same spiritual programming. Artists know the industry extracts their creativity while keeping them spiritually empty, but they feel stuck because hip hop culture has become their identity.
Hip hop sells indulgences—temporary relief from emptiness—while keeping people disconnected from their actual purpose. Like the Catholic Church promising reduced purgatory for cash payments.
Other genres have problems too. Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo reinforce man-blaming patterns. K-pop is a pandemic variant—plastic, fake, with literal "idol" factories manufacturing false gods for global worship. But hip hop is the worst. It's been a spiritual pandemic programming young people to worship false gods. This isn't accidental. Government agencies and corporate interests have weaponized culture to advance nefarious agendas.
My Black friends call this "The Culture." But sorry—The Culture is demonic.
I almost never listen to hip hop anymore. Gospel and praise music are my default now. When you understand that everything is spiritual warfare, you realize music either points people toward Truth or away from it.
The high-level artists and managers I know see this spiritual emptiness. Many are searching for something deeper that actually satisfies their souls instead of just entertaining their appetites.
I'm deeply grateful for the artists who shaped my childhood—their raw talent and storytelling gave me strength when I needed it most. But I can't pretend their culture's theology aligns with Truth. Hip hop as a mainstream religion worships the exact opposite of what Christ taught.
Young people deserve music that calls them toward their divine identity, not away from it.
The choice is simple: serve the culture that keeps you spiritually enslaved, or serve the One who sets you free.
The Truth hurts. But Truth is all that matters.