dc Talk — Free at Last

dc Talk comes to their studio album number three. It's supposed to be christian hip-hop but it isn't. If it existed, it would be christian hip house.

It's too commercial to be a record to attract that Christian clientele who should buy a rap record. The whole album, in fact, deviates from rapping and features a syncopated and tasteless commercial pop delivery by the performers, mostly sung to pop or hip house music. "That Kinda Girl" is a ridiculously pop, pop dance track, with hip house rhythm, skinny tight syncopated drum and a ridiculous and insipid, "false quick" commercial delivery, with a trivial functional hook.

Skit, then another commercial hip house choice with frantic syncopated skinny drum and a commercial delivery, pop hook. The following songs are similar, all pop or hip house, with every single track it seems that the performers want to try the MC Hammer hit style, which here doubles him and goes deeply on christian hop; the ballads ("Say the Words", "The Hardway") and the rare gospel songs ("Free at Last", "Word 2 the Father") don't surprise or add anything. Bad hip house pop dance album passed off as christian rap, 3/10.