This song fills a void in hip-hop for feel-good records that don’t promote the negative influences that typify mainstream hip-hop and quite frankly, these records need just as much as the Lil Yachtys.

“Dance Like U (feat. A Star)” is the latest single from the debut album, Reflections, from 20 yr old Londoner, J Vessel.

On this upbeat club friendly feel-good track this 20 yr old Londoner is joined by A Star.  This video includes submissions from J Vessel fans all over the UK.

J Vessel shares, “Music has taken me all around the world and I’ve seen so many different people from different walks of life. Many are faced with personal battles internally or severe health challenges but you’d never know that by their faces or how they handle life. Dance Like U was inspired by such people – who’s joy in God gives them the power to laugh in the face of adversity and dance in the race. It features a good friend of mine from the UK A Star.”

J Vessel continued, “We’ve done around five music videos from this album and my team and I were thinking how we could make this video something the fans could be a part of. So as the song is about dancing and has a catchy hook, we decided to ask social media to send in footage of them sing along and dancing to the song. Much to our amazement we got loads of submissions back and made that the bulk of the video!“

Video: J Vessel “Dance Like U (feat. A Star)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga-CrRbV3zE

J Vessel’s Reflections album is available on iTunes and Amazon.

http://apple.co/1UA97EH

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01H53FEN2

Connect with J Vessel

http://www.jvessel.com

https://facebook.com/realjvessel

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https://youtube.com/realjvessel/

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“Misconceptions”
(feat. Dr. Ravi Zacharias)

In the Hip-Hop culture
Everybody believes in heaven
By in large, nobody goes to hell

Biggie said, “When I die I wanna go to hell because I’m a piece a mess
And it ain’t hard to tell
I don’t wanna go to heaven with the goodies
Man, I wanna go to hell with the dudes in black hoodies”
For the money and the power
Why would he? I don’t know
Why put him in the place that he said he ain’t wanna go?
Ain’t no promise for tomorrow
Lord have mercy on my soul
Man, we sick of blowing smoke
Man, we Christians, we ain’t politicians

So, naturally, they got a problem with it
Hate to be the bearer of the bad news
Just like I said this ain’t my opinion
Let’s take the murder in the Beatles story
They shot John Lennon, died prematurely
Every heart will bear for these loved ones
They shot him dead before he reached his forties
He wrote a note,”Oh, is Jesus for me?”
I just wanna know if God is real
It’s a quote and it’s been reported
“if He is then I want out of hell”
It’s such a shame when it gets distorted
Yeah, we talking about loving bail
It’s such a shame that he departed
I pray we never change if it’s out of fear

All these misconceptions
Headed my direction
Looking for an answer
Which way do I go?
All my imperfections
Can we find an answer?
Which way do I go?

Man, they got us running scared
Gotta talk it rapid and it’s so unfair
I thought America was land of the free
Can’t talk about it in the public square
Keep it to yourself like a private eye
Nobody talk about it till it’s homicide
They only seem to talk about his love

Nobody talk about the other side

I’m not a judge, only God is
I can not pretend to know where Pac is

I can not pretend to where Pun went

All I know is death is like a pop quiz

Where do I go when I finish here?
What if I repent and say the sinner’s prayer?
What happens when I disappear?
How can a loving God send us there?

All these misconceptions
Headed my direction
Looking for an answer
Which way do I go?
All my imperfections
Can we find an answer?
Which way do I go?

[Dr. Ravi Zacharias:]
I will tell you this, Emmanuel
If I did not believe in the reality of hell
I don’t think I would be in this ministry
It is not just the longing for heaven
It is the legitimate shunning
Of pain which is what hell to me is
The absence of God and it’s not enough to say to say it happens in this world
What happened to Hitler in this world?
What happens to many in this
There are murderers running free today about whom we know nothing
And they’ll never get caught
They are quite happy to be doing all of the crime
Why not go and have a shootout after a funeral if there is no hell?
But, on the other hand, if I’m told by mother, “Don’t put your hand into that flame. It will burn.”
It’s a natural law at work
There is a spiritual law at work too
You determine to live apart from God
And you will spend your eternity precisely that way

I’m afraid that we’ve gotten soft
God is not a villain that the muscles bought
What about the people that are never heard?
All I know is everybody’s held accountable
All I know, he’s a judge and he judges right
It’s what I told em’ all on the other night
If you believe that you break the law you can go to jail
When you breaking the law of heaven
You go to hell
Dang

I consider this one of the strongest new Christian hip-hop records. But let’s truly break this down and see what rapper Da Truth is highlighting. He, along with Dr. Ravi Zacharias, pointed out the reality of hell and its direct correlation with how we live our lives here on earth. Furthermore, Da Truth exposes the huge misconception that there is no distinction between who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. Furthermore, he also highlights how Christians are socially forbidden to share the truth.  This is a hard truth that rapper Da Truth has no fear in speaking boldly.

Listen to the song below and share your thoughts.

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Have you ever heard of someone having a “Come to Jesus” Moment? It’s a very interesting concept that is even used in a secular setting because it represents a moment where you awaken to something. It’s almost like an epiphany or perhaps the “aha” moment. It represents a position of “what was I thinking?” or a moment in time where you find that drastic changes are sure to follow. It’s powerful no matter how you look at it, because when one has that moment, they are now at FULL ATTENTION. 

But let’s examine where that moment actually comes from. The Bible speaks of several instances where someone has this exact kind of moment. We can recall David not knowing what he had done to one of his soldiers with Bathsheba and Nathan having to make it clear to him what he did. There was the Jews on Pentecost realizing that the Man they crucified was the Messiah and their savior. 

But I’d like to take a look at the son who told his father he’d like his half of the inheritance and decided to venture out on his own. He went after what he thought was what he needed and wanted. He had a ball, he enjoyed himself, squandered his money and eventually hit rock bottom. He left because he didn’t feel he needed his father. He thought he could find something better on his own. The Bible says at his lowest low he, “came to himself.”

Perhaps he had a “Come to Jesus” Moment.

We all have or will have these moments. They come in many forms, but what they scream to you in its own way is that what your have been doing is not working. It tells you that you’ve been heading the wrong direction. It tells you that there is more to life that what you currently value. It his hard and it feels awful at the moment. You know what that feels like. It renders you powerless. Hopeless. Empty. Against a wall. At your wits end. 

But here’s the thing, many people have a “Come to Jesus” moment; however, during that moment not many COME TO JESUS. 

Perhaps we should call it a “come to Jesus” opportunity. Jesus has laid out the invitation, right? 

“Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest.”

Think about that. Labor. Heavy-laden. Imagine what labor feels like. Labored breathing means you work a whole lot harder to get air. Heaviness means you are weighed down by something and cannot move. Now how about lifting that weight? How about breathing easy?

How about that?

I see people in the midst of a “Come to Jesus” moment almost every day. But you must now come to Jesus? That means once you realize where you are is not where you need to be…that you’ve been heading the wrong direction… that what you’ve relied on is not working… that you reach for the rope to pull you from that lowest low. Look up.

Come to Jesus in that very moment... before that moment passes… God gives us ample opportunities, but they are in fact limited to how long we are blessed with life… then the moment is gone.

So come to Jesus today…

Ladies first! Check out these emcees go bananas over this instrumental and hold their own in a hip hop cypher.

Get to know Porsha Love, Speez, Ily Rap, Ty Cage and Adamos!

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I want the world to know something — two things. This is for believers and nonbelievers alike. One, is we are in a state of emergency. And what I find very disheartening and worrisome is that the world is starting to unravel. The funny thing about it is it’s starting to unravel because of an attempt to remove all MORAL obligation and the reason is because there is no standard created. When you remove a moral obligation or standard, it means everyone can do ANYTHING they desire – right or wrong. Now, adding to that, if you take away any guidelines or obligations within the workplace, how does that company run? In any type of organization or organizational system, work, sports teams, machines— any process has a guideline or standard.
So why wouldn’t MORALITY of all things have a guideline or standard?

Second, God has established a moral guideline and a moral standard. Yes, we have a bunch of people that believe in God and believe in deity in such a way that they have caused chaos by doing it the wrong way. God set a standard in the Bible. Yeah, we have some people that dispute the validity of the Bible— was it written by God or written by man? We believe that it was written by God through inspired men, but that’s not the main topic of discussion here. What I’m trying to discuss is a moral guideline and a moral obligation that leads you to do the RIGHT thing and establishes right and wrong. You remove that in government and you have anarchy, right? CHAOS— which some people LIKE!

Here’s the thing. People are working tirelessly to REMOVE moral standards, moral guidelines, moral obligation—- and that’s a concern. Because when one seeks to remove God from the picture or seeks to remove a moral standard or moral obligation, you gotta ask that person WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVATION? Because, yes, man is a very amazing, wise, powerful and intellectual being. Whether you believe he came by chance or by God, he is a magnificent being! But guess what! MAN NEEDS OTHER THINGS TO THRIVE. It is evident! Man needs to inhale and exhale. Man needs food. Where does he get that from? Before the grocery stores, he had to grow it or hunt it. Man needs things! Man needs people! When man is born, if man does not get nurtured or hugged, man DIES. Right?

So man came into the world NEEDING something to survive, to thrive. So then the question becomes why do you want to REMOVE man’s dependency on ANYTHING??

If man needs physical things to survive, how much more would man need MORAL, INTERNAL, SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL THINGS TO THRIVE? If man wants to be ANYTHING, they have to either go to school or learn from someone who knows how to do what they desire to do. It doesn’t just instinctually come about. And I think we’ve just gotten to a point of rebelliousness where there is no desire to admit or acknowledge a dependency on something. And guess what? Christians and believers acknowledge a dependency on God. And whether or not you think that’s foolish, whether or not you think that’s stupid, whether or not you think that’s weak, whether or not you think that’s failure, whatever you think it is— that’s what we believe causes man to thrive.

Scripture says God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise things of the world. God’s foolishness is greater than man’s wisdom. And this is a concept that people don’t understand. It’s almost like you really have to dumb it down in order to understand God. Because you are too smart to accept God. You are TOO WISE to accept God. You desire control too much to accept God. And there is a HUGE CONCERN with that.

If you could take the time to LOOK at this world right now, don’t equate GODLINESS with CHAOS. Because conflict comes, NOT FROM RELIGION OR BELIEF IN GOD, but from disagreements in ANY facet of life. And if either or both of those people do not choose to put others above self (a Godly concept), they are going to conflict and there will be confrontation, fighting, anger, insults, war.

GODLINESS DOES NOT CAUSE CHAOS. It cannot happen!

Godliness. Not religion. Cause people believe in everything. Religion just happens to be belief in something, in a system that determines life actions. So belief in the wrong thing CAN CAUSE CHAOS. But GODLINESS DOES NOT CAUSE CHAOS.

LACK OF GODLINESS, LACK OF A MORAL CODE, LACK OF A MORAL OBLIGATION TO A MORAL STANDARD— THAT LEADS TO CHAOS.
That goes for ANY moral standard. If there is a moral standard that tells me don’t kill and I don’t have that, I will kill! If there is a moral standard that tells me don’t sleep with another woman while I’m married and I don’t have that, I will SLEEP WITH ANOTHER WOMAN WHILE MARRIED!

So YOU WANT TO REMOVE ALL OF THAT!

OKAY…what do you think will happen?

Thanks to Facebook I was introduced to J. Monty and this video. Anyone who knows me knows I’m picky. Let me just say that his flow and lyrical acrobatics is awesome. Then he’s speaking about faith in Jesus over some ridiculous beats that change throughout the track. Then I went to Spotify to check out more music and his latest effort Level 54 and for the better part of this album he is lyrically killing it. And he’s not done. His next project 2nd Born drops November 6th.

Check out the video below and FOLLOW this guy!

More swag than a pair of red bottoms, Redd Lettaz is currently working on a new project. But in the meantime he’s released a fresh soulful record boasting ridculous flows.

Check out and purchase Invincible below:
https://reddlettaz.bandcamp.com/

Get churched!!!