NF Shows How To Be a Christian Rapper Without Being a Christian Rapper
NF realizes that what our society needs is not more little rap songs about Christianity, but more little rap songs by Christians—with their Christianity latent.
Several weeks ago, hip-hop artist NF shocked the music world by shooting to the top of the Billboard Artist 100 charts thanks to the unexpected success of his latest album, “The Search.” As news of NF’s climb reverberated around the internet, numerous media outlets ran profiles on the 28-year-old Michigan native and Christian Nathan Feuerstein, who is better known as NF.
Those profiles compared NF to another white rapper from Michigan, Eminem. Indeed, in an interview several years ago, NF admitted no one has influenced his music more than the Detroit rap legend. As one critic recently noted, NF models himself after his predecessor in both substance and style, also drawing from his traumatic childhood and coming from “the technical school of rap, where the height of artistry is cramming as many syllables and as much internal rhyme into each bar as possible.”
A prime example of NF’s gut-wrenching subject matter is his previously released “How Could You Leave Us?” in which NF directs righteous anger at his mother who died of a drug overdose when the rapper was only 18:
“I don’t get it mom…
