After being abandoned by his teenage parents and being raised by his aunt, Kirk Franklin developed a talent for music at an early age. Kirk has intergrated his hip hop styles with gospel themes throught his music collection of eight albums (which I have all of them). Kirk's claim to fame consist of his "keep it real" attitude towards his struggles of being addicted to porn, being a teenage father, smoking weed, and how he overcame it all-just to be a true man of God.