dc Talk is a prominent Christian rock/hip hop band, partly responsible for the rise in popularity of the Contemporary Christian music genre during the 1990s. The band is currently on indefinite hiatus since 2000; since then, the members of the band have been pursuing solo careers.The band, originally named DC Talk and later stylized as dc talk, was formed in the late 1980s in Lynchburg, Virginia by Toby McKeehan, Kevin Max Smith, and Michael Tait. It began as a hip hop group, but in the mid-90s