the gospel music debate bothers me because it reveals something we don’t like to admit.
that a lot of what we call “christian standards for art” is really just respectability culture with a scripture reference attached.
the real gospel, the actual good news, doesn’t shrink your humanity, it enters it. it meets you in the heartbreak and the confusion and the political anger and the romantic longing.
so why would music made by someone carrying that gospel be limited to one emotional register?
david didn’t get that memo, neither did the sons of korah. neither did jeremiah who basically wrote the most devastating breakup letter to God in the history of recorded scripture.
the human experience is not a distraction from faith. for a believer, it is where faith actually lives.
and art that tells the truth about that is not less gospel. it might actually be more.
So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women rapęd by ruthless sIave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil Wąr to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KƘK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hųng on trees...
Fought in World Wąrs as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...
and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?
How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know, survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!
Bro you have 5 followers, why tf are you investing on an EP. Who are you making the EP for?
You should focus on getting a steady income to take care of yourself and you can gradually be growing an audience by doing covers and freestyles.
I strongly believe that if you can’t grow an audience with your covers and freestyles you have no business in investing in music. Why are you investing in a business when there’s no customer to buy your stuffs.
You can't sell meaningful music to Africans
The average Nigerian is materialistic
We only care about money, house and sex, if your music doesn't align with those omo keep shut.