1K Phew’s honesty reverberates throughout all of his music. The Christian rapper aims to fuse religious values with mainstream appeal, showcasing how even a genre like Atlanta trap has room for faithful hymns and philosophical inquiries centered around God. For 2024’s Pray For Atlanta, the MC (born in 1995) teams up with Zaytoven, one of trap and Christian hip-hop’s legendary engineers, to deliver an album of spiritual rhymes over mournful and melodic piano lines and trap drums. On “Hymn,” he lays out his philosophy, rapping: “Puttin' on for my city like I'm supposed to, yeah/Only my God can judge, I don't even know you, yeah.” He writes his bars for fellow religious devotees and his hometown heroes, with haters and doubters living firmly outside his orbit.