Black Voice News Online - Don’t Be Deceived By Rappers Wearing Crucifixes

Ever notice that some of the most profane and outrageous entertainers, for the past decade, either wear a crucifix around their necks and/or thank God at the end or beginning of their debauchery? I force myself to watch P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy once every few months in the futile attempt to be rewarded with at least one good laugh, which I rarely get from his limitless roster of toilet-mouthed comics. It offends me to see P. Diddy praise God at the end of his most ungodly show. It doesn't matter if I don't see the show the fact that any heathen using God's name on an x-rated platform is offensive. Diddy realizes the power of his celebrity and influence upon impressionable viewers and therefore I believe that his blasphemous quasi-praise is designed to deceive. Increasing numbers of artists, athletes, and even gang members influenced by what they see in the media are sporting glittering crucifixes. On April 22, Cameron, a rapper, was featured on 60 Minutes News Show. In clips of his videos he wore a large diamond crucifix as he spewed angry, violent and ant-social lyrics. During the interview Cameron spoke about his unwillingness to help the police catch criminals in his community even if he knew the man next was a serial killer. It was mentioned that rappers Busta Rhymes and Lil Kim had knowledge of murders but refused to help police. Cameron said that snitching would hurt record sales. Busta Rhymes and Lil Kim among thousands of others also mock religion with crucifixes or other symbols of holiness. This type of religious hypocrisy has spawned "Gospel Gangsta Rap," which has creeped into Black churches on a mission.

I'm not so naïve as to think this is all P. Diddy's doing, he's just a sneeze in a world of germs but he also has power over the careers of aspiring artists. As far back as Tupac rappers wore huge crucifixes on their shirtless ‘THUG' tattooed bodies as they rapped about gangster life and religion. In 2005, 50 Cent's movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" young ghetto gangsters wore crucifixes, carried guns, sold drugs, and terrorized the community. I believe the message of P. Diddy and other celebrities mocking God is that you can be a gangster and godly too.

Many of high-profile entertainers with great influence are commonly going to drug rehab programs, jail for carrying weapons, hit & run, drunk driving, assault and battery with crucifixes around their necks. The Black rap artists and comics, either directly or indirectly, are encouraged to display outrageous behavior and cloak it with God. They are apathetic and/or ignorant to the long-term damage it does to the image of their own people as a race. In their defense, artists are quick to blare, "Don't judge me, only God can judge me!" They seem to be saying, I'm a child of Gods' too and have a big glittering crucifix to prove it. (See Matthew 7: 21-23)

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