You Can't Say That In Church (Say Dat Pod)

Reach Records' Ace Harris: More Than an A&R | Say Dat Pod EP. 37

Ace Harris grew up in a Liberian household in Atlanta, the son of a pastor who planted the church that raised ICF Ministries. Now he's head of A&R at Reach Records, a Gra

They Said I'd Fail to Thrive. I Became Poet Laureate | Say Dat Pod EP. 36

A.I. went into the foster care system at 14 months old and was diagnosed "emotionally handicapped" on paper. Now she's Buffalo's poet laureate, a rapper and a mom, and sh

They're Planting Churches In The Hood 'Cause It's Cheap | Say Dat Pod EP. 35

Street Hymns of the Four Horsemen said the quiet part: a lot of churches plant in the hood because the real estate is cheap, and nobody in the building looks like the blo

Tim Thompson Did 20 Years. Now He Works For Nobody. | Say Dat Pod EP. 33

Tim Thompson found Derek Minor's music on the one channel his prison had. Twenty years of incarceration from age 8 to 36, a plan written in his cell two years before the

Joseph Joshua Went To Church High As A Kite | Say Dat Pod EP. 32

Joseph Joshua rolled up a joint on Super Bowl Sunday, turned down the party, and went to church high as a kite to chase the Holy Ghost. God showed up anyway. Episode 32 i

Nate Rose Gave Up The Mainstream For God | Say Dat Pod EP. 31

Nate Rose had millions of streams in the mainstream. This year he crossed over backwards, into Christian rap, and Episode 31 is the whole story: the Nashville scene that

Christian Influencers Are Not Your Pastor | Say Dat Pod EP. 30

A man watched John Diggs' video about lust at 10 p.m. and was in his DMs confessing by 2 a.m. John's answer opens Episode 30: I'm not your pastor. I have no relationship

Lil Baby's Record Label Told Him To Never Come Back | Say Dat Pod EP. 29

Eli Montana and PLM heard the J. Cole stories, so they drove 12 hours from Beaumont to Atlanta with no meeting booked and sat outside Quality Control for four hours in th

Deion T Washington Caught A Case On The Way To Bible Study | Say Dat Pod EP. 28

Comedian Deion T. Washington pulls up to the Batcave for the coffee episode, part two, and it turns into one of the realest sit-downs we have had. He has six kids and a j

She Baited Parris Chariz, Then Blamed Him For It | Say Dat Pod EP. 27

Parris told his girlfriend four times not to buy him a futon. She bought it, hid it in her pastor father's garage, and when the man confronted Parris about it she sat the

They Gave Derek Minor 15 Minutes To Prove He Wasn't The Devil | Say Dat Pod Ep.26

Churches used to introduce Derek as somebody's nephew doing a little Christian rap thing, and give him two songs to prove he wasn't the devil. Parris came back from an At

You Run Back to the Habit That's Killing You | Say Dat Pod Ep. 24

A viral clip on the placebo effect of addiction turns into the realest talk on the show: the stress relief is really relief from the cravings the habit caused, plus Derek

They Turned the Church House Into A Trap House | Say Dat Pod Ep. 23

A gang in Volusia County used a church as a laundering front, 50 arrests followed, and the news framed every church for it. Derek Minor and Parris Chariz run the raid, th

The World Is Watching: Parris Chariz Album Listening Party | Ep. 22

Derek turns his living room into a venue and Parris Chariz plays his new album 'The World Is Watching' (out Friday) song by song with the story behind each. Christ or Cas

They Dragged Derek Minor for Cursing, So Parris Called His Mama | EP21

The language backlash blew up. Proper XL clipped it, the comments split the camp, and Derek answered with a disclaimer. So Parris called in the one person who could reall

The Kids Should Be Singing About God | Ep. 20

Yung Miami's Spend Dat has the whole internet dancing, and the kids know every word of a scammer anthem. Derek Minor and Parris Chariz open Episode 20 plain: the years of

Gen Alpha Thinks Christian Rappers Are Fake | Say Dat Pod Ep. 15

Gen Alpha isn't buying Christian rap. Derek Minor brought his sons Zane and Nolan to the Batcave — and they said what nobody in CHH will admit: Christian rappers just quo

Did Druski Clown The Church

You Can't Say That In Church, Episode 1, Did Druski Expose the Church? Derek Minor and Parris Chariz are live in the Batcave, and they get straight to it. They react to D