What would actually change if you gave God a year? Not a Sunday. Not a good intention whispered on a hard night. A whole year — everything laid down, nothing held back. Most of us never find out, because we never really try it.
Madigan did. And the man on the other side of that year barely recognized the one who started it.
On this episode of WhatItIzWhatItBeezLike?!, King Cyz sits down with Christian hip hop artist Madigan for a conversation that isn’t about a highlight reel — it’s about the kind of surrender that rewrites a life from the ground up. Madigan came up through homelessness, addiction that started when he was still a kid, and a childhood weighed down by labels he couldn’t shake: liar, thief, the one nobody expected much from. By 16 he was broken. Four years of bouncing house to house followed. And then, in a quiet moment on a living room floor, he made God a deal that would unravel everything he thought he knew about himself.
What happened next is the part he can’t fully explain — only testify to. He describes change coming in waves, every few months, so complete that people from his past would remind him of things he’d done and he’d have no memory of being that person at all. In this conversation, he opens up about the moment he stopped performing for God and started walking with Him, why the slow road turned out to be the better one, and the lie he now confronts from the stage nearly every time he performs — the one that convinces so many people they’ve drifted too far to ever be used.
Madigan and King Size also get into what surrender looks like when the cameras are off: in a marriage that’s been tested to its limits, in the discipline nobody claps for, in choosing to serve without expecting anything back. It’s an honest, unpolished picture of what it actually costs to let God have the whole thing — and what He gives back in return.
If some part of you quietly wonders whether real change is even possible for someone like you, this is the conversation to sit with. Madigan is living proof the answer isn’t what fear has been telling you.
Watch the full episode of WhatItIzWhatItBeezLike?! now — only on Holy Culture, your home for Christian hip hop and the culture around it. And go check out Madigan’s latest single Ain’t No Love In The Trap (feat. Dayton), out now.