Street Hymns started battle rapping with his friends in high school. He had always loved it, but battle rapping was never a serious ordeal for him. A few years ago, a friend of Mitchell posted to Instagram about the DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth] Battle League. Mitchell’s friend encouraged him to try it out, but he didn’t think it was for him. A year later, the league had gotten more popular, and Mitchell kept hearing about it.
Although the rappers were talented lyricists, they spoke negatively, though Mitchell had another outlook.
It definitely helps when you understand that a lot of it is entertainment-based. Outside of battle rapping, many of them are nice guys.
Mitchell contacted the league owner to be a part of it, but it didn’t work out, until he met a battle rapper in the league, Ron Swish, at a restaurant a few weeks later. Mitchell asked Ron if there was a way he could get into the league, and Ron put him in touch with the person who gave Mitchell his first battle.
Before his first battle, he talked to another Christian battle rapper, Th3 Saga, who said, “Be yourself, who you are in Christ; be that to them. You can’t go in there and be somebody else that you are not.” The encouragement helped Mitchell to understand that he is an individual rooted in Jesus who is able to strongly project his faith in his life.
Who you are seeing in my battle rapping videos is who I am in real life. I can only tell you what I know and who I am.
That’s a blessing to see that he is a 23 year old young black male living for Christ who is also a virgin. That’s rare. You don’t see that much these days. He is now the second male virgin I know besides my boyfriend.
hehehe… please encourage your boyfriend to keep it up. I got disvirgined at 31 to my wife, the second night after my marriage and i am proud to share.
🙂 I sure will! Thanks so much!!!