Another disturbing collaboration with a "gospel" artist (Yolanda Adams) and rap group Bone-Thugs & Harmony.
If you've ever watched G. Craig Lewis' dvd on the "truth about hiphop" series, you would have some background and insight iabout this group.
Their lastest comeback album (under the swiss beats record label) features Yolanda Adams collaborating on the track "Order my steps". As usual Christians are being duped into buying these secular albums, because of the presence of a so called "gospel artist".
Here is the track on youtube:
Are these guys truly converted? As some undecerning Christians are claiming? I even read a post on a forum by a christian confessing to purchasing the bone-thugs album becuse of Yolanda Adams appearance on the album! This is shamefull.
Just to let you know where bong thugs stand here is another track on the album called streets.
WARNING! This video contains foul language and depictions of gang violence. YES this is on the same album with Yolanda Adams!
Amos 3: 3 Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Concerning Bone Thugs - James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. 10Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 11Can both fresh water and salt[a] water flow from the same spring? 12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Yolanda Adams and Bone Thugs?
Posted by dazzarai at 9:58 AM
Labels: Yolanda Adams and Bone Thugs?
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This is horrific, in itself and should be addressed immediately...
As a former Hip hop listener it hurts and it is a disappointment i will never buy another "gospel Artist" CD until this trend stops.
One more thing did you see rapper lil wayne rapping in a church?
terrible
i ll keep praying for these people.
thanks
Lil Wayne?! I havent seen that one yet. That is ridiculous now
yall need to grow up and let these people express themselves
I appreciate your efforts including the light you shine on certain topics. Unfortunately I see the critique of this "Yolanda Adams" video as purely hypocritical. You throw many stones and build many magnificent mansions on sandy foundations and from high locations.
Judge not less you BE JUDGED. You don't define Gospel. None of us do. Christ does. Jesus personally taught the Gospel of The Kingdom.
What gospel do you teach preacher? What's surprising in this picture? That Bone Thugs and Harmony can find Christ and STILL be confessed sinners? Or that Yolanda Adams. Your pre-conceived pride and joy of Gospel could debase herself to worship with her fellow sinners by sharing God given talents that could bring more people to Christ than any of your seclusive ideologies combined? 2 Timothy Chapter 3
Read it.
Live their lives. Give what they have given. Sacrifice what price they have paid. Walk a lonely road you know not and then point your accusing fingers.
If what you say is truly God's word, then I'll meet you at the Crossroads waiting for you to Open up my heart.
This type of "disturbing" criticism is a poison poured out by the nemesis from big boastful mouths with little blinded eyes and dainty deaf ears and you don't wanna Hear Me Now.. Those artists are far closer to God than this hurtful labeling ever will be.
We know what enemy we face and he has already lost.
I'M a Son Of Light. Get it write.
A Word Warrior in Christ.
Judge us not for you may hear we never knew you.
Max Parthas
Maximum Impact Poetry.com
dazza Its GT just trying to get a hold of you and speak to you about developments in your work etc.Holla on myspace.com/bantuson.Shalom
I don't know if G Craige Lewis is best source of information. This man has certainly not done his homework with regard to hip hop. He seems to make it up as he goes along. The reason he gets ways with his lies, most notably about the beginnings of Hip Hop, is because many black church followers don't know anything about hip hop as a musical genre. They are just blindly believing this man just like they blindly give their rent money as a "seed" to try to pimp Jesus to try to reach their "destiny" (Standing in $100 lines when Bynum, Jakes, and Paula White come through).
- In the G Craige's video, Behind Hip Hop he plays a clip from Underground DJ Danger Mouse's Gray Album, he mixed a a'ccapella version of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album. If you play the track Interlude normally it makes no sense; however, when played backwards it includes the lyrics "666..., Murder, Murder, Jesus". The track was made to be played backwards, and DJ Danger Mouse simply samples Jay-Z's voice and edits it to make him say what he wants. The album is not made or endorsed by Jay-Z, yet Lewis does not make this clear. Isn't that lying, good minister Lewis????
- "Craige stated that GMA (Gospel Music Association) stands for “Gay Men With AIDS”" in a December broadcast of his EX-Cast
- His contention is that “holy hip-hop” is an oxymoron because, according to him, hip-hop culture is a false religion that was spawned by Afrika Bambaataa and KRS One. This is patently absurd. It is common knowledge that DJ Kool Herc is largely credited as the “father of hip-hop”. But of course...if you aren't a lover of or listener to HIP HOP...you don't know that.
http://www.clarkyboy.com/hiphop.htm here you'll find more info on how wrong Lewis is about hip hop.
To the last commentor, can you keep your comments relevant to the blog. Thanks, Moderator.
JOhn 7:24 says "Judge righteous Judgment." Craig is inaccurate on some issues, but most of what he's says is accurate. I wouldn't trust him 100% since trust God 100% not a man. Yet, I will use the truthful information (like on the occultism embrace by many secular artists like Earth, Wind, and Fire, Russell Simmons, D'Angelo, etc. That's true and I have sources to prove It) for good benefit.
Funny how some of you use lame arguments to justify Adams' act. Even worldly artists know the hypocrispy of some compromising Christians. You can't convince me otherwise. YOu don't yolk with murderers in music, you help people in love but no compromise. Some of your are hypocrites. You want to not demonize folks showing wickedness in music, but don't want Christians to express dissent with their music.
I grew up in church and honestly whats sad is the response from you religious christians. It is because of people like you who pass judgement that give christianity a bad name. You people act like bone thugs dont have a personal spiritual relationship with God because ther'te not religious like you all. Because of people like you I believe the modern christian church is more of cult than any other religion
Gerald, why are you so angry. If what we're saying were a bunch of lies, this stuff wouldn't affect your precepts of compromise with the world. You response dictate that this information has resounance with your conscience that something is wrong. What's wrong is a "Gospel" artist yolking up with people spewing profanity and disrespect in music on a regular basis. Also, the bible is clear that we can judge at certain instances in the OT and NT. I've cited the scriptures. You can't refute that, so you use the judging card. The prophet Isaiah called to judge the fatherless. Jesus Christ said to judge righteous judgment and thou hast judged rightly. Some judging is good. I judge racism as evil. I judge murder as wrong. I also judge terrorism as immoral. Judging isn't monolithic since some judging is necessary in building up a society. Really, Christianity recieving a bad name is part of prophecy. The NT says that real Christians will be jeered demonized and presecuted in the last days. That's why you see so much hatred against real Christianity. Also, anyone can have "religious" or "spiritual" activities. A Buddhist or a Muslim can be spiritual and believe in God but deluded in their doctrines. What counts is their fruit and works. Their fruits has been a mixture of spiritualism with occult references and disrespectful lyrics. They could change like anyone, but in good conscience a person can't yolk like that. Therefore, we can help people like that. We can communicate with people like that, but singing a song with people like that (who reference death, violence, occultism, etc.) I disagree with that.You act like Christians got to be of the world to help the world. Sorry, the world then and now hates Christians and your guts. Just look at the history of the Roman empire. Just look at Sudan and in America where the media mocks Christians on many occasions. It's better to be seperate from the world and fight evil than be of the world and let evil infiltrate the church.
Instead, I thinking compromising "Christians" sucking up to the world, never taking a real stand on issues, and mocking truthseekers are liking like a real cult.
By Timothy
I think it's sad. Many "gospel" artists are more concerned with making money and being famous than they are with saving souls and living righteously. Even unsaved people can see that teaming up with Bone Thug -N- Harmony is not Christlike. We may indeed have several false prophets in the "gospel" music world. It's a shame. I can't listen to anything, but God.
Gospel music was the fastest growing music 2 year ago.
Is it a coincidence that it stopped growing right after secular record labels started signing our artists and our artists started doing collabo with secular artist?
I was naive at first and thought it would benefit our music and gospel would eventually take over.
what is happening now is any secular artist (the beyonces, the kanyes, the r kellys) can be played in our churches something the devil had planned all along.
If some of you guys read the bible, Jesus hung out with sinners. His mission was to reach the lost, not those who were already saved! Thats why sinners dont like church people, you guys are self righteous! What if that she reached those guys to change their lives. She planted a seed in them, and did not judge them. Hypocrites!-cast the first stone if you are without sin!
Jesus saw and communicated with sinners. That's true. Yet, Jesus didn't agree with the sinner's sinning lifestyle. Jesus never worshipped in agreement with the sinners. Jesus never sang with the sinners. You can't show a verse outlining that at all. Jesus always exhorted the sinners to repent and move on with their lives. You omit that.
Jesus did reach the lost and that true. Yet, Jesus also dealt with the saved. Jesus worked with the apostles (who were saved) and gave them advice on what's best to conduct their missions. Also, what kind of church you're talking about. Many sinners don't like churches because many churches now are exactly like the world. Tons of churches (not all) promote compromise, evil, and don't take stands on real issues. That's not being self righteous. That's being real. Being real doesn't mean you suck up to the world. Being real doesn't mean you shut and sing. No, we have a First Amendment right to speak up and sing. If you don't like being real and confronting evil, that's your business. Although, the real Christians won't stop. We won't stop.
Reached those? She can easily reach them without singing a song. She can easily communicate with them in private in a peaceful way to try to reach them easily. It's not complicated. Judge them? People judge all of the time. We judge people's appearances, etc. All judging isn't evil. Judging racism, terrorism, bigotry, adultery, etc. as wrong is right. All judging isn't monolithic. Jesus said in John 7:24 Judge righteous judgment. Jesus condemned hypocritically judgment not every form of judgment. Jesus talked about not casting the first stone, but in that instance people tried to kill the adulterer without a trial or jury. That's immoral. Jesus always called on us to expose sin. Exposing sin, evil, and false preachers isn't immoral, it's our duty. You need to realize that rosayln. Who's the real hypocrites? Those who claim to love Jesus but won't criticize evil (plus criticize those that do) or those who love Jesus and criticize evil. The day of being P.C. is over. People wil have to man up and woman up.
By Timothy
this is sad.gospel mixed with secular is not the way to go.i won't ever listen to one of her songs again..and i am completely through with hip-hop/rap,rock & all that other wordly things.I love G.Craige Lewis..that man is right!
The good book says: "Judge not lest you be Judge." The same yardstick you use to measure others will be used against you. Christ came so that the we might have life and have it abundantly.
He said go out into the highways and byways and spread the word. The gospel is for sinners, as Christ himself said, "What need have the healthy for a physician?"
How does Yolanda Adams collaboration with Bone Thugs any different from when Christ associated and surrounded himself with thieves, prostitutes, adulterers, lairs, etc.?
You people decrying Adams are doing just as the Pharisees did when Christ went around preaching the gospel. As Christ said, before you try to remove the beam from someone else eye, first remove it from your own, lest you blind the person.
People read the Bible. It's the only way you wont be deceived. See what God's word have to say for yourself.
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