Children Can Live (Without It). The DC in DC Talk, incidentally, doesn't stand for the District of Columbia, but for Decent Christian. It was when McKeehan went to the Rev. L. M. R. S. - Say The Words. You don't struggle with these things because you're a believer in God or not -- the whole world deals with what to do about sexually transmitted diseases, with what's going on with social decadence and the decline in America's morality, with racism, with abortion. At first they were taken back, but as we ventured out and shared the lyrical content at the heart of what we were trying to do, they were more open, and finally completely open, to the point we performed the song in chapel service. We're not trying to turn our backs on anything. Two Honks And A Negro. "I think people at first would hear the grooves we were creating in the dorm room and not really understand. "What's the use of getting mainstream {exposure} if people go into a mainstream record store and can't find our record? " According to McKeehan, a couple of labels "have asked us if we could change this or that, ever so slightly.... We're not willing to do that.
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Time Is... - Time Ta Jam. Growing up, he was a great fan of the band New Edition, something that's clear from listening to "Free at Last" -- "I saw them four times in one summer in the D. C. area, " he recalls. That's essentially what we're doing -- we're speaking the language our generation can understand, doing a stage performance that they can relate to. We're getting our answers from God's word, the Holy Bible, but we're not shoving it down anybody's throat.... The King (Allelujah). That all this is done in nonjudgmental language and in a musical style that reaches young people is clearly important to McKeehan and the group.
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Early on, DC Talk was known primarily as a Christian rap act, but, says McKeehan, "we're a vocal group. "We do want to move on and we're looking forward to having a deal that will promote us more intensely on a national and international level, " says Toby McKeehan, the 29-year-old Annandale native who fronts the group and is its principal -- and principled -- lyricist. There is thunder in His footsteps. We never want to come across 'holier than, ' because we're not. That means a two-hour show featuring a four-piece band, three dancers, a light show, fog machines, a good sound system and even an acoustic set that includes U2's "40, " based on the 40th Psalm. "Obviously there's more vocal support now. T. - Take It To The Lord. "We'd like to be an alternative/hip-hop group, " McKeehan continues. Socially Acceptable. In an era when pop songs are often criticized for negative lyrics, it's ironic that DC Talk's positive messages make some labels nervous. We're three guys that stumble and fall every day. Sometimes we scream, sing lead, do harmonies or rap -- we try to throw the vocal style that best fits the passion of the lyric.... As we mature, our music's maturing with us. When He rolls up His sleeves, He ain't just putting on the ritz, (Our God is an awesome God). "All generations try to make up their mind on these issues, and it's not Toby, Michael or Kevin's answers.
"Before a missionary goes to Ecuador, he learns the language and the culture of the people and takes the Gospel to them according to the way that they live. And lightning in His fists. Things Of This World. I don't call us a ministry, I call us a band. People are tired of being preached at, of words speaking louder than actions. DC Talk song lyrics. Last month, DC Talk's hip-hop-flavored "Free at Last" won a Grammy for best Christian album, hardly surprising since it spent 33 weeks atop Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian Albums chart and sold more than 500, 000 copies, a figure seldom attained in that market. Perhaps they can't understand the twists evident in songs titled "Word 2 the Father" and "I Don't Want It" (which champions sexual abstinence), or the stance of "That Kinda Girl, " in which the singer turns down a first-date proposition (the girl drinks, smokes and cusses like a sailor too) and sets his standards: "Not a girlie of the worl'y that's shady/ But the kinda girl you meet behind the doors of the church/ You see, God will bring her to me so I don't have to search. "Now they know that we see ourselves essentially as missionaries to our generation, " he adds. "All we're trying to do is shed a little bit of light on these issues, " McKeehan adds.