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Artist
J. Crum
12+ albums
Christian Rap
about
The repeated message hip-hop culture presents to this generation is...“Get money. Get women. Get fame. If you ain't got it like so and so, you ain't doing nothing.” Its no wonder why youth in America are struggling for purpose, for some type of an identity. They get the same regurgitated message from the media of who they need to be. Joshua Crum's heart broke for this dying generation and started putting in work to introduce these hurting people to the one who has a real hope for their future. Jesus. J. Crum was born in Detroit, MI and raised in Omaha, NE. As a kid, he really just wanted to know who he was. What he was created to be. His father left him when he was young so he was looking for a place to belong. “As a young kid up to my teens I really didn't know where I belonged. I tried to fit in with whatever was popular. I had literally no idea who I was.” says Crum. When he was 13, a few of his friends started free-styling at the lunch table. “They would begin to beat on the table and people would jump in and start rhyming. Wanting to fit in, I jumped in. That's when I found out I had a gift.” He started to attach himself to the hip-hop culture. It motivated everything that he did. From the clothes he wore, to his thought-process. 'Get more. I don't have enough'. By his freshman year in high school after achieving popularity he still felt empty, like there was something more out there. He tried to find fulfillment in the world, but came up short every time. At the age
