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THE GOSPEL AS A MONEY MAKER
Take for example this "Gospel Dancehall"
artist. In a video-clip, he shows how Gospel
Dancehall can bring just the same as
"secular" Dancehall.
Look at three
stills from the video clip with his track
"New Life" (DOWNLOAD),
flashing his money around:
The video contains more elements, like driving
in America in a big car and all of that. Is that
why Jesus Christ went to the cross? In a track called "Doing
Better", which follows the video clip of
which we saw a few pictures, he says more or less that
Jesus is going to make him rich, too...
Yes, in the Christian Industry the very
Christian faith is the very product. Artists are
literally sucked into it. It's still the lust of
money and it's easy, too...
Instead of staying an artist in the Reggae
Industry and help promote the music as a whole, a
false appeal to the Christian faith is made and
the artist is subsequently transformed into a
marketable product: it's spiritual slavery in the
Holy Name of Yesus Kristos the Divine
Saviour!
And that goes far. Very, very far.
It has the most bizarre consequenses, too.
On the
"Gospel Reggae" website, you can find
people with the most bizarre ideas. Just
look at this quote, taken from a discussion about
"Reggaeton", a style deriving from
Reggae with lyrics often in the Spanish language
(emph. by author of this article):
It is yeilding the the spirit that inhabits
the beat. And since it is a secular riddim then
i am worried. Cuz if you buy it cuz you like the
beat then and dont really understand all the
lyrics then ammm........are you being ministered
to? Or are you just ingesting a ketchy beat?
This would be ok to me if it were a gosple
riddim ( cuz christians produced it and it has a
godly spirit associated with it). But since it
it is a secular riddim i am bothered. That is
why i asked if these beats are prayed over and
blessed by the christian artists that use
them..........
The Holy Spirit inhabits the bodies of those
who are born again through Yesus Kristos. He
doesn't inhabit "the beat", the
"product". That is truly a very false
doctrine. And it brings people to creating
industries with "Holy Ghost annointed"
products.
The point is: whether you are an artist or not,
when you are a Christian then you are considered
holy for who you are in Him. And who you are is
given to you freely by the Good Lord God Jah
Almighty through the works of His Son Yesus
Kristos Who payed a terrible price for it. You
shouldn't build an industry and market something
which is given to you for free.
With a buying audience that considers the
products to be holy, almost worshipping these
products, an audience that doesn't even believe how
you can use a riddim which is not directly created
by workers in the Gospel Industry unless it's prayed over and
blessed by the christian artists that use them, your income is
guaranteed. But that income will not be
eternally...
Christafari started it all, based on some kind
of supernatural vision that has no precedence in
the Bible. They claim "credit" for it
and want everyone to know. Where in fact, it's condemned by the very
same Bible which they claim to adhere to.
"By it's fruits ye shall recognize the
tree", Jesus said.
"Have no participation in the works of
evil, but rather expose them", the prophet
said.
"Step Out Of Her My People, So That Ye
Shall Not Receive Of The Wrath", JAH said.
And so, in 2006, it seems like the Gospel
Reggae Dancehall Industry is heading towards newer
grounds, where even Christafari didn't trod
before. Boldly proclaiming that they're gonna make
some serious money in the Name of Yesus, the
second generation of "Gospel Reggae"
artists have become twice as bad. And that's
"bad" as in "bad", not as in
"good".
There have been reports about how the business
is run. There's nothing "Christian"
about it. The CRC has had private reports on bad
business in the Gospel Reggae industry, too: from
deception of customers to bad payments to artists.
We have, as said, focused a a lot on
Christafari. But we must now come to recognize,
that probably Christafari had it's longest time
allready. Christafari served it's purpose, which
wasn't as much to plug the gap in the christian
Industry, but to create a gap between
Christians and non-Christians working in the
Reggae Industry.
There are those who see in the Gospel Reggae
Industry a Babylonian attempt to destroy and
divide Reggae Music. We believe this, too. Babylon did it before. In
order to limit the strength of the Sounds of
Freedom that is Reggae, we know that they've
killed Bob Marley and injected cokane and violence
into "Dancehall".
Whatever the case, fact is that the parasite
called CCM has now arrived in the Reggae Culture,
only to steal and divide in the Name of
Jesus.
Where shall this all lead to? We'll keep you
informed.
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