The name “
DC Talk
” was the moniker that white rapper
Toby McKeehan
, who was born in Falls Church, Virginia, acquired because of being from the Washington, DC, area. While attending Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the mid-1980s, he met and became friends with Michael Dewayne Tait, a native of Washington, DC. The two began to perform music together and were soon joined by
Kevin Max Smith
, a native of Michigan. Some of their musical influences included...
