Artists Submission: Da Vine

Music Submission: Da Vine

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Check out Da Vine @ http://www.reverbnation.com/davine2717

Members: The Author and LZ

Sounds Like: Da’ T.R.U.T.H., Thi’sl, Trip Lee, Bishop Ridge Music, Shai Linne

Label: Keep Pushin 4 Christ

Based out of Austin TX, Da Vine is a Christian Rap group who’s goal is to break chains off believers and bring more souls to the Kingdom of God through music. They have the unique ability to story tell in their songs and have been compared to artist such as Da Truth, Lupe Fiasco, Common, and the Ambassador. The group name “Da Vine” comes from John 15:5 where Jesus calls himself, “the vine”. We are representing Jesus (the True Vine) every time we speak, minister, and rap.

Listen to “Preach Christ”:

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True Covenant Friendship is Rare By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

True Covenant Friendship is Rare

The MC Part 8 – Fellowship and Unity e-Book by Ricardo Butler @ http://www.lulu.com/shop/ricardo-butler/the-mc-part-8-fellowship-and-unity/ebook/product-20120540.html

[Read/Study 1^st Samuel 20:1-23]

By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

True friends are rare. We all know that. We have all heard the saying and all its different variations. Good friends are hard to find in the world. Even worse, they are even harder to find in the Body of Christ.

Now I LOVE the WHOLE body of Christ and I hardly doubt anyone who knows me would not doubt that. I love Christ and I love His wife (my mother, the mother of us all from above—the Church of the Living God). As far as the children (sons and daughters) of God, especially in the music ministry, finding people to team up with that are like minded in their approach on how to execute and advance Kingdom strategies is even harder.

Now I don’t want to go over again ways to build unity. I talked a lot about that already in a blog post and a podcast. You can check those out here:

I was reading some more about the friendship that David and Jonathan had and it just rare in today’s church and world. I mean I have friendships like that, but not all of us do. So where can we look for new friendships to build into quality fellowship?

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009 Purpose of the Five Fold Hip-Hop Ministry [PODCAST]

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Sup famo!

In this podcast, in the release of my new book, Five Fold Davidical Hip-Hop Leaders: Influencing the Hip-Hop Ministry, Industry, and Culture, I talk about what the purpose of the Five Fold Ministry is in the music industry. What they are called to do and how they are called to do it.

Let’s SUM them all up!

“And David [the APOSTLE] spake to the chief of the Levites to APPOINTED [Heb: 'confirm, establish, appoint, ORDAIN'] their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. So the Levites APPOINTED … the singers [minstrels], Heman [the PASTOR], Asaph [the EVANGELIST], and Ethan [also called Jeduthun the PROPHET], were APPOINTED to sound with cymbals of brass; and Chenaniah [the TEACHER], chief of the Levites, was for song …” (1st Chronicles 15:16-17, 19, 22).

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7 Phases to Building God’s Music Industry INTRO (VIDEO)

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7 Phases to Building God’s Music Industry INTRO

7 Phases @ http://fivefoldhiphop.webs.com/

In this intro video (of a 5 Part series) you will learn some of the issues and challenges we as Holy Hip-Hop Artists face in impacting and reaching the Music Industry and the Hip-Hop Culture.
More videos coming soon to http://fivefoldhiphop.webs.com/

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Music Submission: Steph P

Music Submission: Steph P

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Steph P @ http://www.reverbnation.com/stephp

STEPHAN PALMER BORN TO GEORGE FAWCETT JR AND ORA L PALMER. FATHER DIED WHEN I WAS FOUR. MOM WAS IN AND OUT OF MY LIFE. AND SINCE I HAVE CONFESSED MY SIN’S TO CHRIST, I AM NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THAT I HAVE SOLD DRUG’S, BEEN IN A GANG, OR HAD A ISSUES WITH LUST. FOR THESE ARE THINGS THAT I DEFEAT THROUGH MY WALK. AS A YOUNG MAN WHICH LEAD TO ME BEING A FELON. BUT I HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE AROUND AND RENEWED MY MIND THROUGH READING THE BIBLE AND BUILDING A STRONG WALK.

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Asaph the Hip-Hop Evangelist By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

Asaph the Hip-Hop Evangelist

Asaph the Evangelist Anointing

By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

As it draws closer and nearer for my new book release called, The ‘MC’ (which means Master Constructor) Part 11 – Five-Fold Davidical Leaders: Influencing the Hip-Hop Ministry, Industry, and Culture, I’m going to start breaking down and talking a bit about these Five Fold music ministers from the Life of David.

The ‘MC’ Part 11 – Five Fold Davidical Hip-Hop Leader: Influencing the Hip-Hop Ministry, Industry, and Culture eBook By Apostle Ricardo Butler COMING SOON! Check out other books @ http://www.amazon.com/Ricardo-Butler/e/B0091UNQII

I will not talk much about David because we’ve been talking a lot about David already. But for this blog series I will talk about some things that were not covered in my new book about the Five Fold Hip-Hop Ministry.

Asaph the Recorder

Asaph’s name means, “collector, to GATHER TOGETHER FOR ANY PURPOSE.” Is this not what the Evangelist is called to do? To go out and GATHER for the Lord‘s Wedding? He was the EVANGELIST!

“A Psalm or Song of Asaph. In Judah is God known [Asaph was PREACHING THE GOSPEL by making known the Father]: His name is great in Israel [And Asaph was PREACHING THE NAME OF THE LORD--CHRIST!].” (Psalms 76:1).

“Asaph the recorder [Heb: 'mention, make mention, make mention of, recount, record (WITNESS, be a witness), recorder, remember, make to be remembered, bring to remembrance, call to remembrance, keep in remembrance, put in remembrance'].” (2^nd Kings 18:18).

“All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house [Church] of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house [Church] of God, according to the king’s [apostle's] order [charge, mandate] to Asaph [the evangelist in the Scriptures (as far as I have seen) always worked in direct contact to the apostle] …” (1^st Chronicle 25:6).

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8 Benefits of Eminem Becoming a Christian By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

8 Benefits of Eminem Becoming a Christian

Eminem / Slim Shady

By ReAsOn DiSciPLe

Well I guess I am the only hip-hop blogger that is left who has not wrote about the whole Eminem “rumor.” Yes, rumor! According to all the sources that I have read no one is for sure. So therefore, if Slim shady has not publicly confessed and professed his faith and brought forth fruits meet for repentance, then it is still rumor.

I mean I sure hope he surrendered to the call of Christ and the purpose of God to make him more powerful as he becomes the image of Christ. We all do. When MC Jin came forth he made his declaration public while he was still in China on a YouTube video. Then after he came back to the states he started immediately working on music to profess his faith and stand. And eventually after some years he began speaking and did a Flavor Fest workshop out here in sunny Florida in Tampa.

He was even humble enough to have a chat with me through social media. We broke bread through MySpace (at the very end of it’s long death and loss to Facebook) and then again on Twitter. So just from the few words we spoke over some music and his conversion knew as the baby leaped in my womb.

So enough about that for now. I want to get back to Em. I don’t want to write about his conversion. I want to give some significant benefits and points for the Kingdom if Eminem or any other major rapper was to convert from the flesh to the Spirit life. So this is not just about Shady. It’s about if any major artist converted, such as T.I., Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, etc. So let’s get it!

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