Christian rapper Kevin “KB” Burgess is begging believers to embrace Christian rap to reach people with God’s word. KB recently released a new book, Dangerous Jesus: Why the Only Thing More Risky than Getting Jesus Right Is Getting Jesus Wrong. He told Christian Headlines that contemporary hip-hop teaches young people to “hate Jesus.”

He also pleaded with fellow Christians to put their reservations aside to support people like him, trying to spread God’s word through Christian rap. KB told Christian Headlines, “Let’s return to that era of seeing Christian hip-hop as a powerful way that we might bring revival. Think about what we can rejoice over, that the Gospel is being preached, churches are being strengthened, and people are coming to Christ.”

Not everyone in the Christian realm supports faith-based rap and hip-hop, but KB said people should remember the extreme nature of the secular alternative. He told Christian Headlines, “The alternative is what your children are going to listen to, they are listening to. And the alternative is teaching them to hate Jesus. That’s a little hyperbolic. But there’s truth to it.”

The Christian rapper encouraged Christians to look beyond differences and focus on the Bible as a unifier that helps everyone look beyond divides. His new book discusses Christ’s countercultural message, describing how Jesus’ actions and words were a “threat” to many. The text reads in part, “From the moment He arrived on the scene, Jesus posed a threat to the unjust, a threat to the oppressors, and a threat to every semblance of authority wielded by the kingdom of darkness.”

It continues, “He invaded the world with love for the forgotten, hope for the hopeless, and freedom for the bound. His ideas were disruptive, subversive, and scandalous to the world around Him.” In the book, KB addresses people walking away from faith today and tackles what he sees as the ways in which Christ is and has historically been “ignored, weaponized, reinterpreted, and misappropriated.” His goal is to focus on the “true” biblical Jesus.