Album Of The Day: Momentum by TobyMac

Album Art of TobyMac's Momentum album - A photo or collection of photos spliced together where all of the background has a heavy horizontal motion blur, so it's hard to tell what the background is. But it looks like it could be a sidewalk and a brick wall with an advertisement sign on the left side. In the middle, pasted on top of the photo is a black-and-white cutout of a man in shorts and a black shirt with a beanie on jumping through the air and screaming. There's a blurry color photograph version of it layered in behind as well. Below the jumping person it has the album title in small white text with the artist name in larger text below it.

"So if you're wondering why I / Continue to try my / Skills in this rap game / Girl, I can't get enough." Released 25 years ago today, this is the first solo album from pop/rap artist TobyMac. Known in the '90s as being the rapper in the Christian rap/R&B trio dc Talk, after the group disbanded, Toby McKeehan (aka TobyMac) started a solo career that was rather successful and continues to this day as a Christian pop/rap artist. Maybe thanks to the co-production from Pete Stewart on some tracks, many of the songs here contain musical beds that are guitar-heavy and a large wall of sound. Other songs sound a lot more like early DC Talk, with simple hip-hop beats and beds with guest vocals on the choruses. This album is one I listened to a lot back when it was released, but honestly, I find it harder to enjoy Toby's music more than other artists. I find the lyrics pretty childish and overly positive, plus I now understand more of what non-Christian artists he was trying to imitate and it seems less amazing. I also always thought TobyMac was better at finding and building talent at his Gotee Records as I liked their artists a lot more than his output. Still, I suppose it's worth a mention that this was a big release in Christian music 25 years ago.

Release Year: 2001
Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Spotify

Categories: 
Album Of The Day
Music

Add new comment

More information about text formats

Filtered HTML

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img>
  • You can enable syntax highlighting of source code with the following tags: <code>, <blockcode>, <c>, <cpp>, <drupal5>, <drupal6>, <java>, <javascript>, <php>, <python>, <ruby>. The supported tag styles are: <foo>, [foo].
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.