"Do you guys really think if a person uses 'profanity' (words we've given meaning) in their music they couldn't possibly be Christian? Why?" the Reach Records emcee asked on Twitter. In a recent twitter discussion, the rapper posed a question that had some of his Christian brothers and sisters up in arms. Like the name of his last album, Andy Mineo never has a problem bringing up "uncomfortable" topics. So I sent some encouragement back for him to keep doing his thing.Hip-hop recording artist Andy Mineo. My wife did a Snapchat of me and her listening to it and tagged Zauntee. “When Zauntee dropped ‘God Taught Me’, I put my wife on to it. However, whatever comes of their friendship and ministry together can be attributed to Datin’s wife. If they can respect something as blatant as these examples, imagine somebody who falls back even a little bit to be more relatable but with a gospel message talking to the world through a Christian lens, of course, that can be easily mistaken.”ĭatin and Zauntee seem like unlikely touring buddies because of their age and style difference. “Even on my end, I’ve heard all types of stuff like my song ‘Hallelujah All Day.’ Somebody moved their hand a certain way and people are like, ‘See, it’s the Devil’,” said Datin. “He’s such a solid kid and even with him making a worship type song, ‘God Taught Me’, people still make videos exposing him saying it’s really a Satanic worship song.”ĭatin says some of the falling away of these Christian artists dodging the Christian hip-hop title is put on Believers who look way too much into nothing. At the time of this interview, Datin was on the road with the young rapper, his dad, and his brother. One guy who is doing it right in Datin’s eyes is Zauntee. I’ve seen a couple of brothers be like, ‘Yeah, CHH, we out here repping Jesus’ and all of a sudden Lecrae switches and they switch and say, ‘Nah, CHH is dead. They’re successful and they dropped the label so others do that.” He continued, “My beef is with the people that want to emulate their success. And if it is false, the Lord will reveal that eventually, but for now, why don’t we just have hopes that God sent them out there to paint a picture that we can actually see – the lost.” “I said, let me just clean this up on the second verse, and clarified, my beef is not with them. “I already knew that people were going to think that I was shading them, and it’s not normal for me to name drop,” he said. In this track, Datin gives the major players of Reach their due and then issues his problems with others who try to chase their coattails. While the video received nearly 100,000 views combined, Lecrae actually responded and the conversation was respectful and fruitful. Last year, Datin famously took issue with how Lecrae answered questions about Christian hip-hop in recent interviews at the time. We do need people to be on the forefront and out in the world. They are not fishing in the Christian hip-hop pond ministering to the church. “What I see is that they are fishing in another pond. “I believe since they are the first of their kind, the trailblazers of the CHH genre, and when I listen to their music I still hear Christ,” explained Datin. If you ask me about Lecrae and Andy, I’mma say I think it’s brave and manly, to what our Father God has prompted you to do despite what these raging fans be… “I Stand firm on my experience that I’ve seemed to discuss this matter for Jesus and people automatically assume I mean Lecrae and Andy.” I just do it with the doers…we’re moving with the movers, you can never mute us, don’t confuse us with the dudes who do this for the loot we do this for Yeshua. “The first verse is just encouraging believers and Christian rappers to be about this,” he said.
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