DC Talk and Carman Rapping Together? Carman Opens About 'Addicted to Jesus' Rap with TobyMac (VIDEO)

Carman recently had an interview with BreatheCast and reminisced about his song "Addicted to Jesus" with DC Talk in 1992.

Over 20 years ago in a much different time, Carman and DC Talk were the kingpin's of Christian music. The two were at the top of CCM's lists as far as record sales, global reach, and Christ centered powerful music.

Since then two decades have passed and the three members of DC Talk and Carman are still out there serving the Lord. Today is Throwback Thursday, so BreatheCast is taking a look back to 1992's "Addicted to Jesus."

See the video of the two coming together for a very 90s classic Christian song:

In 1992 Carman was coming off of some of his strongest work at the time, and one year away from releasing The Standard, one of his biggest albums. DC Talk was reinventing the wheel with their blend of gospel, rock, rap, and pop while also being the major faces of Christian music. They had just released their classic Free at Last album and were a handful of years away from releasing arguably one of the most important Christian albums of all time, Jesus Freak.

This collaboration was kind of historic for Christian music at the time, and something everyone definitely welcomed. While Carman is a gospel type singer, he often incorporates spoken word in an almost rap like fashion. His beats were on point at the time, and he was always hip. DC Talk's TobyMac was kind of the godfather of Christian rap, and was a prominent feature of the group's first two albums.

Interestingly enough for the song, TobyMac had to revert back to more of an old school flow for the song as he picked up his flow and aggressiveness on the Free at Last album. This song is more of a Nu Thang sounding cut, which was released in 1990.

Carman spoke about "Addicted to Jesus" with BreatheCast last week when being interviewed for his new album, No Plan B.

"That was actually one of the more authentic rap things that we did. Even Toby has changed his style, and adjusted to something that is more custom fit to him where it doesn't fall in any other category. He's got his own thing, even he knew that. You're not going to be Jay Z, you're not going to be Tupac, you're not going to be these other guys, you're just going to be yourself," he said referring to TobyMac's evolving style throughout the years. "Somewhere along the way he decided this is what I do, this is what I do best, and lets just put it out there and people loved it because it was him. It was unique to him, and if anybody else tried to duplicate it, they would be trying to sound like him. So that's how you develop your own style."

He was asked whether he thought he could pull off rapping all of these years later.

"I think when hip-hop and rap was younger and not as developed, we all had a better chance of participating. But as it's gotten more developed and more its own category, when you are just toying around with it, it really shows up as insincere and it is really not your field. I think you just sort of really develop your own style. I've always done syncopated lyrics cut to music, I don't know if you can call that rap or not, but it's talking in time with the music. There are elements of rap in it, there are components in it, but it doesn't fall in the category of rap."

Even Toby himself has moved away from hip-hop as he has gotten older. Last year he revealed to Christian Post he would not even consider himself a rap artist anymore.

"Hip-hop is dear to my heart, I started out a rapper and have become sort of a rapper/singer, always leaning to hip-hop beats, always leaning to hip-hop culture. It's part of me. I wouldn't call me a flat out hip-hop artist because some people might be up in arms, but hip-hop is part of what I do, part of where I've been since I came into this industry. I will never deny, I will always embrace it. I will always wear it like a badge of pride when it comes to my musical passion," he said.

Now, 20 years later we can look back at the two artist's golden years. Carman just released his first album in over 10 years, and beat cancer. TobyMac's Eye On It is nominating him for awards left and right, and will be nominated yet again for Artist of the Year at the K-LOVE Awards. Michael Tait is the lead singer of the Newsboys and Kevin Max is the lead singer of Audio Adrenaline. Both of those groups were almost on par with DC Talk and their legacy in the 90s and early 2000s under different members and now the groups have sort all combined.

The last remaining question is, when will we see DC Talk again?