January is behind us. At this rate, it will be Advent season again before I can blink. Before that happens, here are 15 things I’d love to see in the CHH movement in 2015. Some fun. Some serious. Some personal. I hope all of them come true.

  1. More artists embracing Swoope’s theme of unity from “Same Team.”
  2. Along the same vein, I would love to see the CHH movement have a more active voice in helping to heal America’s racially divided church. As artist’s whose fan base tends to cross different cultures, I believe we can serve the church universal in that capacity.
  3. Artists putting out more resources than just music, i.e. Trip Lee’s Rise book
  4. Json’s #NoMoreSecrets campaign beginning the healing for a lot of people.
  5. More maturity in the necessary discussions about our different ministry approaches.
  6. Established artists following Lecrae’s footsteps of dropping high-quality mixtapes. I work with a lot of teens as a Young Life leader and loved being able to burn these and give them away.
  7. A CHH conference in the mid-Atlantic, perhaps in Washington D.C. or Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. The CHH fans in my area always have to travel so far to attend the major conferences, which tend to be in Atlanta, Chicago, and Tampa, etc.
  8. A healthy Canon returning to the stage.
  9. For the Reach Records artists – Trip, Andy, Lecrae and Tedashii – to remake the Cross Movement classic My Life Cypha.
  10. A song featuring both MikeREAL and JGivens. These are two of the newer artists that I love.
  11. A group that fills a void that the Cross Movement left; a commitment to that old rugged east coast hip-hop style that is both Christ-saturated and doctrinally weighty. Lamp Mode is sort of like that, but they don’t typically do group albums and it’s not always rugged east coast hip-hop.
  12. More Christ promotion than self-promotion.
  13. Producers returning to more samples. I may be alone in this, but I really love when producers bring back to life a classic sample out of an old gospel song. S.O.’s sampling “More Than I Can Bear” and Sho Baraka’s “Mahalia” are examples.
  14. Someone to make a mini-documentary on the making of Ambassador’s Christology: In Laymen’s Terms – a classic, genre-changing CHH album – like a smaller scale version of the Time Is Illmatic
  15. A movement-wide return to the emphasis on the music as ministry.

Jam The Hype wants to hear from you. What number do you most agree with? What do you want to see happen in 2015?