Christian hip-hop artist KB, born Kevin Burgess, strongly believes in the power of positive influence as he encouraged others to seek out people who would lead them towards the right path instead of bringing them down.
"For me, I don't trust myself a whole lot. I encourage everyone don't trust yourself too much," he told Christian Post. "So, I keep good folks around me and I have been taught by some good dudes."
One of these "good dudes" is fellow artist and Grammy Award-winning rapper Lecrae, who is featured in KB's new single "Sideways" off the Tomorrow We Live album.
"What I say now is, the man loves Jesus and you might not agree with him but the dude loves the Lord, and I have been greatly impacted with just the character aspect when I look at his life," shared KB.
When he was younger, KB suffered with his parents' divorce, and at one time even dabbled in drugs and battled depression. Things might have continued going downhill for the singer had he not been introduced to Christian rap.
"I looked in the mirror and I was like, 'What are you doing? What is going on with you?'" he recalled. "It was in that I think that I was made ripe for the Gospel, because a few weeks later I was handed a CD and the dude on the CD made the music that I liked. And he talked about the God I needed and I believed, and I've been walking with Jesus ever since."
KB said that his new album Tomorrow We Live deals with his troubled past and he hopes that it would help all those who listen to it overcome their own weaknesses and avoid the pitfalls of the music business.
"The album was inspired, like all my music is inspired, by my community in Tampa," he said. "So I'm in folks' lives. I'm at the hospital with them, I'm at the nursing home, I'm at their house, I'm there when cancer strikes, adultery strikes, I'm there. So I very much have a front seat in the afflictions of people around me."
