Christian Rap - Gospel Gangstaz

I was talking to a friend of mine who happens to be really into Christian rap.  He showed me a bunch of cool artists who had a cool hip-hop sound, but none of them were from Southern California!  He showed me a bunch of artists from the Philadelphia area and Atlanta who had great promos and seemed like their marketing team had it all together.  But the more I looked at sites like Rapzilla.com, the more I noticed a lack of representation from my area.  That led me to think about how Christian rap was represented in my area.

Then I came to a site about a group who's been in the business for more than 20 years:  the Gospel Gangstaz.  I saw a few of their videos and it was hard-hitting stuff, but their testimony only made things more meaningful.  Apparently the members (Mr. Solo and Chille Baby) had been in gangs when they were younger and had survived some pretty crazy stuff.  Mr. Solo almost died in a drive-by shooting incident and from then on out, decided to give his life to Christ.  Chille Baby was then convinced to give up gang life and form the Gospel Gangstaz.  They see their mission as special because they want to take the Gospel back to where they're from and change lives for God.

Even though they've been around for more than 20 years, they're still making music!  In fact, they have a single up on Youtube right now and the album is coming sometime this year.  The single is "G'd Up" and the video is below (the video contains scenes depicting gangs, guns and some other things that younger eyes should probably not see):

So now I'm on a quest.  I need to find more Christian hip-hop from Southern California!  If anyone has any ideas on that, make sure to send me some information if you can.

Gospel Gangstaz Facebook page

Gospel Gangstaz Twitter

If you want to get back to the roots of Gospel Gangtaz, click on the left Amazon link for their first album, Gang Affiliated.