Arena Contributor Preach Jacobs Wins Best of Columbia's Best Local Hip-Hop Artist

Columbia-based DJ, writer, and artist Preach Jacobs was awarded Best Hip-Hop Artist in the Best of Columbia awards by the Post & Courier’s Free Times.

Preach Jacobs is a two-time South Carolina Press Association Award Winner for column writing for his column "Fight the Power," featured in the Free-Times and Post & Courier Columbia. He founded Cola-Con, the nation’s only hip-hop comic-book convention, as a hip-hop artist and DJ contributing to the South Carolina art scene for over 20 years.

Preach Jacobs is also the co-owner of SoulHAUS Gallery, which won runner-up for Best Art Museum.

Jacobs is a native of northeast Columbia and a graduate of Spring Valley High School. He was named ambassador to Columbia, South Carolina, in 2022.

Few the rest of the Best of Columbia winners here.