What Makes Art Christian: A Study of Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d city”

For Christian music to be powerful, it must be real.

What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Christian music?” 
For me, “Christian music” conjures up images of millennials on stage playing acoustic guitars repeating a catchy, simple bridge, with perhaps drums or a piano included. Maybe it brings up memories of car radios singing pop melodies over soothing chords. Whichever the case, the phrase “Christian music” evokes a clear conception of a genre extraordinarily predictable both sonically and lyrically. Nowadays, Christian music and w...

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