After a brief hiatus, T-Bone released his fourth album, and first on the Flicker Records music label, The Last Street Preacha, in 2001.
It received critical acclaim, was nominated for the Rock Gospel Album Grammy Award,[3] and saw T-Bone break into the contemporary Christian music market.
The album was characterized by the guest appearance of hip-hop legend KRS-One on the title track – returning the favor of the controversial guest spot T-Bone had made on KRS-One's Spiritual Minded album earlier in the year.
The album cover controversially featured T-Bone in an image evoking Che Guevara, leading to concerns that he was promoting communist ideologies – charges he denied.
In the film, T-Bone performs the song "To da River" with secular artists Lil Zane and Montell Jordan.