Well Amen!
After drumming up all types of controversy and pissing off Christians with the release of his new song, ‘Amen‘, Meek Mill decided to be the bigger person and apologize during his latest visit to BET’s 106 and Park. Just last week, the MMG rapper went head-to-head with a Philadelphia pastor live on the radio who called the song ‘blasphemous’ and launched a boycott to keep it from getting radio play. Yesterday, while debuting the video for the controversial track Monday night, Meek appeared to be in a different place. He told co-hosts Rocsi and Terrence:
People find all types of stuff offensive. I don’t think no preacher or no church approve of any type of rap music… because rap music, period, is a lot of bad stuff said. But at the end of the day, it’s real life. And me, I wasn’t trying to disrespect no religion or anything like that. My whole family is Christian. I have a half Christian, half Muslim family. The situation, the song, that’s what energy it felt and if anybody feel disrespected, I ain’t do it in that way. And I ain’t drop the song with bad intentions. I did it just because it was a good feeling…that’s the feeling it gave me so I said, ‘Amen, church.’ I didn’t do it with bad intentions at the end of the day.”
After Meek’s public apology, the pastor who called him out, seemed satisfied and released a statement that he was lifting the boycott:
This apology was the condition for lifting the Call-To-Action boycott. Therefore, I want to say as a follower of Christ, that I completely forgive Robert Williams for this song because Jesus has completely forgiven me. While I have made the choice not to listen to or support any artist that promotes blasphemy or misogyny in their music, I appreciate Mr. Williams being willing to acknowledge his wrong. It is my sincere hope, that he, along with all popular rappers with their fans, will embrace God’s total forgiveness by turning from the sin promoted through mainstream Hip Hop, and trust solely in Christ for salvation. Christ died for all the evil we have done and spoken. And it is only through repentance and faith that forgiveness can be found. I want to say thanks to everyone who chose to cover this story, and a special thanks to all those who supported me.
Hallelujah, that’s over!
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