ASAP Preach shares his testimony in this interview with TruthSeekah on the TruthSeekah Podcast.
ASAP Preach AKA Ian Barnett was always a fan of hip-hop. When he got saved in 2002, he felt it was only right to glorify God with his gift and love for that genre. He felt led to share what God had done for him through his rap. Following God’s will for his life, has opened many doors for this talented artist. ASAP reminds himself daily, to stay in his lane and let God have control of the moves he makes. He doesn’t allow the idea of fame and fortune to distract him from the ultimate goal of reaching the lost.ASAP is dedicated to making his sets be all about the kingdom. He makes it a point to have altar calls after each performance. ASAP has stated that even when he gets out of line with his walk, God is always using him to reach others. He has witnessed people falling to their knees in worship and welcoming the Lord into their hearts, even when he himself is not moved by his performance. When he is not doing music, he is serving his church home in Ft. Worth on the media team, as well as doing street evangelism. He serves the homeless community by giving food and a healthy dose of the word.
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God Of The Broken ASAP Preach Interview With TruthSeekah TruthSeekah Podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6F8XB4bOk Transcript source: YouTube captions yeah uh-huh oh yeah oh yeah yeah it's like the little things that I'm saying that matter matters it's like the little things and that's what the ministry is our first man is at the home you know I'm saying like everybody wants to be on stages and everybody wants to have a microphone but if you're neglecting you know saying them at the crib then it's really in vain man in the scripture says you're worse than an infidel I'm saying you're worse than an unbeliever and that's where it comes a we see too many people in families get left behind when it comes to ministry or comes to doing something for God you know but I thought that's awesome and it is mm-hmm yeah that's what he does man yeah we I believe we got a phone call coming in the stream did cut out but we're still recording live skin some place other places so okay so they okay so there's you see you alright alright let me know finally to you there you go and we should be still alive and we got bringing a walk some believe we got brother hunter Hughes calling in I believe this witnesses let's see if we could take this call a little blonde I know we're still streaming on on YouTube when I streaming on Facebook we are streaming on YouTube and wish and all the audio is still saved going straight so let's see let me see if I can pull them in because it says Northwest Arkansas that can be on you know saying none other than hundred Hughes we speak a whit this is other user Northwest Arkansas aka as usual hear me yeah we hear you loud and clear brother pull sake the Lord I was you all have you worried when that shrinking I'm like oh no a me where we still go a man look that's a straight-up faith man like we still here man so we got some work to do do you need prayer for anything hunter can we agree with you in prayer because I know when little stuff like that happens man it just kind of apps us up because somebody's trying to shut it down so do you need prayer for a hundred we're ready to pray brother uh yeah he use a couple use a little bit of Prayer um let me think um I'm still been a job hunting I had gotten back with ko keka I had been applied with coca-cola they got back to me a couple days ago not for position I wanted but they're still keeping me in touch it in check because I think in case something does show up the shot one bill I'll be right there and so that guy - what next one is pretty much I've now become pretty much the most hated person to work with and my job not all my doing just again like I said before the devil streamers taking over most of my co-workers it seems like and so if it's not one thing I like about me it's another so that's caused a lot of stress at work too as well so pray that I have oh I'm not going in there like trying to think the word I'm trying to use not going into it all like cold-hearted just looking for words and to try to hit on the next person uh-huh definitely man will definitely agree with you in prayer on that issue man and so we'll pray and if you have any questions as well we'll keep you on man let us a set up any questions or anything like that about the album so I'll go ahead and start off man I'll say a prayer and I'll preach if you want to pray as well we'll do that okay father God I thank you for my brother hunter Lord I'm just ask you even now just to bless him keep him God I ask you to just to guide him and lead him on the path of righteousness Lord God for your namesake god I ask you to use Hunter as a mighty vessel for your honor and for your glory God just father even now even when it seems like there's winds and waves all the way around them and all this confusion going on Lord in the midst of that you're still using them and I thank you I pray that you open his eyes and show him where you're using him God so the he knows were to invest his time more wisely with people friends and family god I thank you for everything that you're doing in his life I think that you called him father God as a mighty man of Valor Lord God as you have plans to bless him plans to prosper him and no plans or any intentions to harm them but father God that you would just pour out your blessings upon them let them know who you are God that you are Jehovah Jireh you are our provider Lord you provide everything that we need you know everything that we need before we even ask of a God so I thank you Lord that even now that you're already making his paths straight God and whatever's to come with the job situation we we just thank you for in advance because it's already done and we just father God we just just pray and receive that he doesn't get antsy or he doesn't stop worrying or figuring out what he's going to do but you have the perfect provision and plans for him God let him rest in that and no worry no doubt only faith in Jesus mighty name Amen dear father God I limped up honor to You Lord and only you know what he's going through the Lord and I I just pray father God that you would just put your hands upon them right now Lord as I speak glue and I pray that Lord the anointing of Christ would just start flowing all over his body right now Lord and I pray father God that you would start putting people in his life that need to be in his life Lord and taking out everything that is not of you father God but I pray that you would give him strength to let go of things that he he is having a hard time letting go lord I pray father God through your grace and your love Lord that you would bring were repentance in any type of situations where that are going on in his life Lord but I pray father God that Lord that you would just give him her vision and direction in his life Lord but I pray father God that you would just bless him with the job that he needs to provide for his family Lord you said you wouldn't put too much on us that we could verify the car so Lord we trust you we leave it all in your hands Lord and I pray father God that you would just continue to continue father god bless so financially Lord so that he could be able to take care of his family Lord in every single need that he has worth that Jesus name I pray amen and then receivable it's for you yes so was Hoppe Allah willing I've been doing all right just bit along didn't build good long we give the most part I'm I actually was able to help bless a family that I'm close to recently um every three months are cuz I work for Walmart currently every three months we get a bonus and lately to get me decent sized bonuses three hundred four hundred dollars and so I was saying we were hanging out with me my fiancee were hanging out with the family one day I just haven't seen him a while finger would hang out he catch up and at the same time we date and they're always struggling they're on all sorts of welfare just because they have like by poll they're like bipolar eighty daht anything you can pretty much think of they have it we call it the Plumlee syndrome because it's like so much that's like just shorten the list and so what we did was we couldn't think of anything is usually we try to think mean I guess we'll think of something bake the buy for itself but it's like we don't there's something we really need it's like so why we just bless this family help them with their groceries because they're always struggling with food and so so we've listed with an extra hundred bucks taken grocery shopping with and so that just felt nice to do just like they've done so much for us and so it was all way of giving back to them yeah that's always awesome when you could do that man the Lord tries to test you make sure he could trust you with that man you know I'm saying I had that happen to me years ago you know with that you know saying it's always $100 he always does it where you know what would you do with that hundred and he asked you to give it away and give it to somebody you know he wants to see if he could trust you there but he always gives it back man pressed down shaken together and running over man he always gives it back man so he owns the cattle on a Thousand Hills one hundred dollars is nothing to the most other guy so man any chance you get just just look to bless people man and he'll he'll always give it back it may not be instant it may not be like a slot machine he put it in he gives it right back sometimes it may take a few months but when you need it you'll never see the righteous for stake and you'll never see the godly begging for bread he'll always meet your needs man so just as long as you can let that money come to you and just go back out into the community and to people who are hurting people who are needed um he'll he'll continue to bless you man I'll see you as a good Stewart and a good server man definitely so how did you take out the norm yeah I'm like three four songs away from getting that done it's like the guy that I was usually originally he got new software so unfortunately up this price on me bum like it's all good I'll still be able to get the table done I'm hoping to get released before the end of summer like beginning of fall so hopefully within the next month or so I'm open for us are so is preach on your album - uh yeah I got a set preach on the song on everybody um I don't I don't know I'm on it Monet's on it you're also got a couple bikini music I got so the Keaton these guys on a Bobby Phoenix and triple three are on there as well also great brothers I've talked to them personal on personal level several times and they are great brothers to talk to I tell you what dude like people want to knock it about getting a bunch of features and stuff but when you're like it's your first major release it's good it's good to network and it's good to get out there because the whole thing about networking with other people and even paying for features and stuff like that you're essentially paying for promotion so what you want to do this is wisdom for everybody out there I've seen it work firsthand even paying for features I've got plenty of features that I've paid for you know I'm saying their studio time or to bless them or whatever the case is but the whole deal with that is when you do a song with somebody their fans are itching for new material their fans are wanting new music so if you do a track with illuminate now there is a competitive side to it not to beat the best or whatever the case is but you want to promote and so you want to when you do a feature and you paste my for feature you want to try to come harder than them you do you want to do that on every song but essentially on a paid feature right because if you do now all of their fans are now hunter Hughes's fans and that that totally happened with me with the lco be movement and getting those guys on my on my album nobody knew who I was and within a year of my album dropping my fan base like quadrupled man selling t-shirts moving CDs all over the planet by doing that paying for features look let me throw you $100 get on this vert you know I'm saying first money money talks man you know I'm saying artists struggling out here like which I say we're trying to do this art and it doesn't pay a lot hip-hop artists don't get paid a lot so any time that you can help somebody out man I'm telling you don't be afraid to do it but in the midst of that I have worked with a handful of shady people who you pay and you never hear nothing from them again have you had that problem hunter because I know you deal with a lot of people who aren't Christians as well I don't know if you've had that problem at all hunter have you there's only two big cases that I've had issues with the first one I did was on it was this guy like okay cuz I start off I'll explain this first Fargo and details about this when it comes to music I listen to I don't usually bounce for a lot of artists especially I've asked for more Christian hip-hop I do secular doubts I start actually gearing towards parsnip up because I used to because I used to mainly secular but if the sector artist is real if they're not faking it I get props for that because I'm all because I'm all about being 100% in what I do so they're being 100% I'm cool with that that's why I've used that's why because you know I was in my facebook I'm a huge Jelly Roll fan does he's 100% real and I love to do for that okay so first guy I had issue ISM with a guy from Florida that I've interacted through Facebook on multiple occasions and I was watch the sales guy was pretty much hustling pushing the music I thought old vehicle got to work with Tatum for the beta for feature didn't hear anything from them after that pretty much after he got the money for the feature and then the sick think it was about 100 bucks on that one and then the the next guy I did was a guy that was a mutual friend of mine for to another guy I've done music with this guy's from I believe st. Louis Missouri and he again he was real at first his musical easel it was real at first I gave him props for that but as he started making more music as he was on hiatus for a while and then they start going out again he started coming out after a lot of these artists I was originally falling because I used to be a big follower for nice to follow Bravo Gator and he was coming after these guys when I saw them at the time and so I'm just like what's the book because I'm not one for beef are you I've never done a diss track in my seven years I have done music and so because I'm just like I always into that person I wouldn't know handle it myself and I'm not going to acknowledge it but bring it into my business yeah well and so like with your name that you just mentioned and I was just thinking it maybe you read my mind Bravo Gator got um a buddy of mine four grand you got a buddy of mine for guy happening in I haven't had a bobble Gator has this gaming people lately that's just I've been here I don't know how I didn't know how much food of the time is why I never said anything about it at the time yeah I want I just say that because like we had an instance where Bravo Gator got a close friend of mine four grand he was supposed to do a little BP with them he never did it and he tried to get him for more money he tried to give him this long story about how his his computer was in the shop and he needed some more money to get it out and if you send me the rest of them some more money we'll get it out and we'll start working on your your project you know he took him for a dummy really so he sent them that money and he never got it back and then a close friend of mine wanted to do a feature with Bravo Gator and I was like no you dude if you if you do if you do a feature with Bravo I'm done with you like you can't be like doing songs where people who are robbing the homies you can't do that it doesn't fly you know so I feel totally comfortable with putting putting that information out there because of other people like you or me who want to work with some of their favorite rappers but some of them are out there you know doing doing bad businessman you know they've been getting a lot of people I've had to happen several times as well me as somebody $300 and in yeah I got you tomorrow then it's been six months you know yeah well but what's here's the craziest part about it was I paid the money he still did the feature but why I say I pretty much lost it was a loss it's because icon started calling him out on what he was doing not publicly but I would Facebook message him like dude you are not getting your fans with all this drama and this beast thing that you're doing with these other artists that have been the game longer than you have that have been releasing music more than you have and he pretty much just flip the script on me and just started cursing me out and all this even threatened to show up in my workplace and in his words kicked my butt and he gave me such every day was going to be there and I just watched the watching tired to have work and he never showed up okay whoever um hit he goes like Liese Anna Jones is his name please yeah yeah got a real rapper yeah um found some guy named Asteria Cleese en is junkie I don't think that's a real rapper man I think he got too high I'm not kidding you guys this is what he went by I'm not I would not make this up yeah so how did you think that I did did I you see the resemblance with DJ Paul and ASAP reach I almost saw my chair laughing when I when you pulled up the picture you never got that before though huh never got what a goon now you never heard [Â __Â ] break my dad you looking at it you never got that out that our comparison before though huh la first time for everything man buddy I knew all I needed the grill yeah that totally be you in a pan for like a month straight yeah it you look just like a man you can you can go like the comic-con and stuff dressed up like them I know like go to like Santa gathering of the Juggalos or something dressed up like it so yeah Hunter Miller I could do a music video and then like to say that I'm him feature on the title yeah it'd be a cool pairing me I thought about doing a song just because I've like mastered a bunch of different styles with my voice over the years that I can sound like different rappers and I do I do voices and stuff for like comedy pranking my friends and stuff and I thought about doing a song where just like changing the voice on each each rapper and each style to me and they did that with all the Houston rappers over here today Wow yeah nevermind me of them that just reminds me of a Hopson on his lifetime he did a parody song focus on all the mumble rappers yeah and it was really funny that was funny with my I think with hashbrown for the video that was funny yeah get out that was funny man Hobson's a really creative dude I don't think that uh he should have left funk volume but you know I guess he was a creative genius or whatever and didn't having beef or whatever cuz they had something awesome Gollum and you know mm-hm yeah something awesome going it was like like selling out tours I don't know if Hopson still selling out but I know he's still doing packed tours but for volumes it was it was a like a movement I guess there's more just a label or something there's like a movement of people I couldn't catch some of the other artists as much as I did him and Wiz a little bit yes well it was awesome or Lancome like their own personality or whatever I got a song with Joker man I don't know if you've seen that nominally it was raising names y'all be cool featuring whistle crazy name Joker you don't know who Joe got it I gotta solve with that man bro me Batman Joker we said his name was crocodile Dundee's yeah giggling joke meow Bob boom oh man yeah alle Bunga john cowabunga turtles alright so I do got a question for y'all alright brother were to go okay discount ties to because I figured this might be some good input for so both y'all can give me some input on this one but like I was saying before I'm having a hard time pretty much getting along with my co-workers at this point in time and part of it is kind of my fault because of one I'm very blunt and I have a tendency to open mouth insert foot most the time because of my bluntness and so it's got me into a lot of bad situations part of it is also due to the fact that I was four years old I was struck I was diagnosed with autism and so I've always struggled socially and so that's also taking part of it to where I never really known how to get along with people properly to begin with and it's got its premise conscious and what I'm trying to figure out I know the Bible says that we are to treat love one another as great as God loves us but praying but I know a lot of us happen currently racing when I was I say I almost stuck with his mind with the the mind fact I guess I'll say that very much we raised to say treat others as they treat you which I know is not Biblica wrecked but a lot of us are stuck with that because we live in this crazy world and so my question is when it comes when it comes to but you try to be nice or spectral person but they're the complete opposite and complete donkeys but to you offense how would how um sorry I'm losing my words here what would be the proper response how should I approach it what would you do pretty much I would probably lie because slow to speak like I should be like if your goal and asking God to tame your tongue you know you know a lot of us want to go into work and have a good time we don't say and what sometimes when you when you go in there and have a good time then you go with those intentions sometimes you can just say things they're not that you know saying that you didn't think about think about it before you start speaking so I that's what I'll try to do is just you know be slow to speak and keep your business and I'll say like you're there to work be friendly and and you know kind of stick to yourself but also do do what you have to do don't make it awkward don't let them take that think that you're just sitting over there in the corner all weird but they don't say like yeah try to take it try to going this to work with a different approach this next time and you know if you're Kingdom minded you know in this thing came to mind affirmed in his word you know it's just he makes it easy for us to be able to walk walk it as a life even amongst our Kolko work first there's like a ton of scriptures man that you can go back to and all this stuff's help man there's there's some books that you can buy like scripture like scriptures for different things that you're going through and like a little pocket Bible thing that you can keep in your pocket but a couple of them you know as the scripture says vengeance is my vengeance is mine saith the Lord so you don't have to go about and try to you know take anything personally or try to figure out how you can get them back which is something up you know we all struggle with I think you know but also I think like a really good scripture is Proverbs 25 21 and it starts off by saying if thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat if he be thirsty give him water to drink for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head and the Lord shall reward thee said it didn't says the north wind drive us away rain so dust and angry countenance and a backbiting tongue so it basically says like still you know Christ said that we're supposed to bless them that curse us pray for them that speak evil against us that's kind of what comes with the I'm saying with the territory like that's the persecution that said we're going to go through like those are the promises of God that all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution they're going to make fun of you you're not going to be as relevant you're not going to do what they do they're going to find ways to poke fun of you and things like that but still be cordial with them and pray for man and then they say in doing so just being nice to them and blessing them when you should be a whole back but you you respond with the Word of God with us and a friendly reply it says for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head in the Lord shall reward thee so they're good you um saying that like that's going to be the biggest thing man is that they can't provoke you to get on their level of name-calling they you know they probably want you to call them names and you know get on their level man and and they do honey are you a bully at work are you just bullying people you might be just not telling us ya know it's like I do admit I have also said some things that because I also I'm I'm also have a known where something that I may say if I take something one way so else they take another I don't always understand that and so I said things that while may seem funny to me may also hurt other people and I have done that so you may time so yeah I meant poke fun at somebody else's experience Oh God boy okay be doing that yeah yeah we all been there though I've been on both ends of the spectrum and so I've been the one making fun of people telling jokes and then I've been the one who they've tried to do it to me but it's just all it's all it's all the Lord man you got to bring it all to him and let him sort it out and he will do description says that he'll make your enemies your footstool and this is a any tongue that rises up against the thou shalt condemned so you saying your enemies you don't you don't have to plot you don't have to plot and scheme and I'm saying worry the scripture tells you that the end of the battle is not a flesh and blood anyway but powers and principalities in heavenly places it's a spiritual battle man yeah I especially can rule this is that there's I knees there's something something on his face cuz um terraces last worked out of work this past Saturday again uh once again I open mouth insert foot and it got to the point where the guy was working with time we're like right in each other's space what he literally smell the cigarette he was smoking on his breath I thought we were about to start swinging it was and it was like 10 minutes later after that I calm down I was like okay that could have gotten a lot worse yeah that's a little close for comfort man so well uh yeah so what's your release date man you don't have a date yeah you just got to finish up a couple tracks hunter just a couple more tracks yes all I got left I got this song idea that just got we're gonna lairs recording all that so and I got the mixer master he's a great guy goes by uh I try to remember I don't want his name wrong I think it's like black Willie from Ohio is his name like I'm John I am not making me run ball telling me here I am not that you know what you said I'm not typing that in those on on Google black Willie I'm not no I'm not saying for that reason I'm being 100% serious I can't happen like me I can't look their name up sorry I don't need for that way but I knew I was a butcher the names about so I apologize it came off wrong but Oh Lord he that's the porn star to jump on a stag yeah yeah like uh don't don't Google that name people you're probably not gonna find them but something else okay I have his real name here Willie Edmonds his was named his real name is really Edmond but he has a hip-hop name I just came from for left me so I apologize for that misconception it's like I'm with myself and on the podcast stuff like a month good man you you're providing content man so it's all good so have you have you had a chance to listen to um the UH new album by a separates have you heard that yet um actually I did I because they allows listen to music at work and so I do Spotify all the time and so I did get Angeles the album it's like and I think my issue was I was almost complete I'm sorry a seven I was on comparing the interview to your first album always say a prayer and compared to it I didn't enjoy as much there were some tracks I didn't fully enjoy but there were some tracks that I really got a good kick out of that made me like playing guitar in the middle of the silo I was owning so it's like I would act like I wouldn't say like I don't want to say it's like ah I feel bad for things because I don't want it's like I do mean try your best but almost as good though like it's still enjoyable at least yeah man it was about this project is that I'm very versatile and all different types of styles so it was really cool is that God gave me give me a bigger platform and a bigger audience to reach with different types of songs to different types of styles so I completely um agreed that a lot of people are probably not going to be connected to every single one of the songs because I have so much dis or a variety of different types of me songs on the CD I think yeah yeah like I'm with there was one versatile like there's one song you have on there that um oh how did it go it's like oh yeah it's like um the way goes up they have to do you have that there's power the name of Jesus going in the chorus yeah I was driving around a day and that same course kept on popping in my head I'm just and in the car over and over again if I know my course I'm going so I'm going break every chain break every chain break every chain so what song did you not like um hold on I can't remember every like I couldn't quite get into it the first couple of tracks I because I just was like I was expecting the more upbeat kind of stuff like you had and it was just warm kind of mellow and it felt so good your vocal subtle will not trap your vocals a little like monotone to me on the first couple tracks yeah and so that again this is just me I'm not again could be completely different or someone else Chris skits Allah Eber he's giving you hate to do anyway what else is not what else not the first time I heard monotone so we could just it's like don't worry I'm gonna tell me you're still open all day that's another day now like I like hearing these type of criticism for my music bro because I'm just going to get better and better yeah yeah it's like I'm just it's like I don't mean to be a critic but like I believe we should also be able to give them positive criticism for others because again I'm in all the tracks I've done all my best words like you listen to the first mixtape when I was first we music I was even going I went by DJ Dell money that was my first hip-hop name I was going by I started my music 78 years ago and that me and the software and the stuff I didn't record was solo great you could even understand half the stuff I was listening to more my former music I was doing so it's like so I completely understood all criticism I got mostly over the years or some point where I was like dude it's the best song that would look better Gatley like today I'm like well that person was right so hey hey hunter we're gonna put you on hold for a minute we got another caller coming in and he may have some positive criticisms for the album we'll bring you back here in a little bit Hunter so we got a caller here who we speaking with what David a ruckus with murder hi Jamie tell us something good about nobody oh man I love uh I'm getting ready to uh go out in the car right now and go driving and listen to it some more sing the banner which is what's your least favorite song my most fake something not least yeah what's your least I want to know the the least I come on there no least about this album he hasn't listened to it yeah he hasn't learned man I'm rich he has a hurting I'm listening I'm not a boy rise up no what's up yeah althrough yeah I like my favorite songs yeah so John 3:16 anybody hates on that I'm gonna meet him at the doorstep this was black Willy whatever it takes to make them like it he was here for that fart oh but yeah people in the tower in a chat or saying yeah there's no rapper named black Willy I look it up you're probably looking it out I think gravity looking it up there's no there's no rapping by that name and your rapper by the name Jay rut I'm going to Houston Texas this week so hey I got a um I got a comment here in the in the YouTube chat and this is what Mike says and Mike you should call in just so you can kind of elaborate a little bit but I'm posting the number so you can call them because I don't really know what you're talking about you say get back to write knowledge exclamation point stop with all this religion BS you have to call them and let me know what you're talking about I don't really know what that means I would love for you to allow so give us a call man this is where you know you got us for another few minutes man if you want to talk and we can we can see what you are talking about about right knowledge in religion bs so we can talk about that I would love to talk so give me a call um about the tattoos man let's talk a little bit about the tattoos because you're a tattoo artist as well they say oh boy oh go ahead yeah so let's talk a little bit about the tattoos cuz you're a tattoo artist as well right oh no I gave it up man I was a tattoo artist so my ex tattoo artist um man I gave another light for when I first started tattooing I was like okay I really need some money I was doing it for the wrong attention and nothing God wasn't involved in that at all but he was he was involved because it is that helping me grow in the long run but it was a bishop pretty much the whole time and and then one one day you was I was at work at the shop with me is like are you willing to let this go for me I heard it so clear and people would think I'm just crazy sitting over there in the corner but man I got a heavy Commission and I was like are you willing to let this go and I was like yeah I'm gonna let it go he was like all right then quit this job and sell all your stuff right now and I was about to do a tattoo and I I was like I can't do this I told her my team do it as soon as I went home it stepped on my door said my wife's like what are you doing home so early and I was like okay I quit tattooing god that god help me you know he asked me if I was willing to let it go soon as I stepped inside my house bro tears just coming down my face I just felt like chains were broken off of me and I felt free and I knew for sure it was God's will he's like I'll provide for you you don't even have to worry about the tattooing or anything provide for you for you doing something that actually brings me glory and in since then I've been with my video production he's been providing for my family ever since that's what's up you know like I was talking to you beforehand man he he he does that that's just kind of the you know I'm saying the levels that we have to go through with like dinner with our idols or idolatry and between Egypt coming out of Egypt which is a life of sin coming out of Egypt yeah we're gonna have to face the Golden Calf man we got what you know Sam we're gonna have to face it and I just like I like you know saying everybody needs to stop doing what they're doing unless God is telling them to that's just a testimony that God wanted me to grow he I don't think he wanted me to despite bigger levels to it but from what I think is I think that God didn't want me known as a tattoo artist yeah before the the Christian minister that I am yeah you know in music and all that oh well he's a tattoo artist what you know yeah he doesn't want he doesn't want me to be spoken evil of I will be spoken evil up for the rest of my life but it isn't didn't want to be just called that you know that wolf in sheep's clothing yeah that comes with the territory man you know saying yeah definitely doesn't be good now well yeah I mean I'm saying for being a believer you know I'm saying that comes with the territory the scripture says it says woe unto you when all men speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets so in any time somebody everybody's speaking well of you something's up man something's going on you don't have no haters no enemies nobody telling you to do this but I will say man just follow this the sweet voice of the Holy Spirit man wherever he leads you do it if he convicts your heart if he tells you to pick something back up do it and you don't say however long that takes man those trials and the quicker you obedient sometimes those trials men sometimes those trials last four years dude so when the Lord tells you to do something do it as soon as you can because you I'm saying the Israelites was in the wilderness a lot longer than they needed to be and it could have been headed headed to the promised land if only they would obey so that's just like what else man we got idols in our own a heart in our lives and God tells us to put stuff down I've been through it all like even with what my plugs are my ears and the tattoos and everything I there was seasons in my life where the Lord said take him out it was like a battle I'm like why Lord like fighting like this inward battle of okay what you know I want all of you like what what are you you know say why are you finding your identity in these other things when when your identity is found in me and and I and some stuff like that it's kind of it's it's a real deep conversation but I've talked to brothers who have had the same same theme and you know I'm saying they're earrings and piercings and stuff and throwing them in the garbage and went and got them out and I get it we're not like my pastor told me that the way airing somewhere was like well I'm so you selling something my ear I dig up getting my ear tattoos yeah so I don't have to wear earrings for more like that made that thing like that made it better because they like well I hope that you really love ya what's the sale you here can't you're sorry kind of open love okay but yeah man that's fair anybody man who's out there on this just walk of sanctification and God just calling you to one level to the next and free in order for you to go to one level to the next you gotta deal with everyone all I'm saying on their level on I'm saying is usually just it's just change of small idols and giants you know I'm saying Goliath and all that so if we have to deal with one at a time and it's all part of it so we got another call coming in I believe this is a friend of mine Alonso Pichardo that we speak of it yeah how you doing my man I will so yo man we're gonna give a call in to the show what's up yeah yeah you got any questions right now I might need prayer dude um you know I have a battle and you know we're hating I'm a player hater so I need some prayer for that man I'm just full of hate tonight and I'm I'm hating on new podcast I need some prayer man all right definitely now I'm joking bro how's everything man it's a good show you know yeah you are the number one hater out there we're gonna break their spirit real quick know what a night someone did when he was like I'm hatin on this park yeah I need I need help right now dude not me dude me and Alonzo we had okay so so there was one name that I left out a bit of the podcast names right all the names I gave we are the trolls it was another name another name that we went oh then we had a we had a podcast where we were just hanging out talking crap and people would call in and troll us they call in and prank Oh tell us about Big Willie and all that stuff right and it's a weasel I well let's troll them back so we had a Cass called we are the trolls and Alonzo was on that one with me was it yeah yeah yeah but the the homie you have on there looks like a real man be real so you don't even know who be really yeah how do you not know be real is Matt's life itself both of them is it like one wants me to post a picture oh well it was just like be real you can't front what it would have to be be real with this hair short okay be be a little like up in a poster just give me one second let's see I it take me one second here I can see be real with the short hair but you know I'm saying be real with the long hair um he stopped they sounds like them too and when he's talking so where do I find it what I thought what would I find your music a set preach all minute appreciate that you can just look on YouTube or you can go to like I chose Spotify google play but yeah then you just search ASAP preach on YouTube then I got a whole bunch of music videos and stuff on earth sounds good man look forward to listening and I'm continued success to you brother and see you can you success to you bro continued success to my little my little brother there Derek don't fall off that chair alright I got to be real picture pulled up as well I just do that yesterday looks just like is like a you see all right brother ha let you tomorrow man god bless okay mom at night face trees alright so you say you don't seem to be real huh you see the DJ Paul but not to be real right I'm finna DJ Paul yeah it's a little bit allegedly yeah hey so that's what's up um he's like I'm hating on this podcast yes like all right how we little hurt for this cat yeah Lord show them what we're trying to do here Lord so my intention store so you won't hey this is fun show them that this is cool it is like no yeah you know I went people heard his voice when he called in homie Grimm just said troll he's like troll yeah I'm dying over here yeah he's uh that's hunter saying he's dying over here from the and then he gave Paul did be real yeah definitely I call it man do everywhere I go I see people in like that's just how my mind works okay he looks like him and will being will be in public I'll be in public with my wife and I'd be like look at I do it over there that's uh that's Marilyn Manson she's like nobody I don't see us like it's totally him you know and probably yeah I mean you say no one is not him but it's like there it's not you have to like man you know line in play it's like their type of human doppelganger it's so we just like a certain type of species of humans like we all have a different species of chanyeol mm-hmm Neanderthal all right so yeah what can make a high that the wee one from them yeah baby girl see I guess we're coming up on the end of the podcast unless we have any more callers I think hunters want to say one more thing hey what's up hey willow dude no not try still show me guys is they Charlie heat me all this long your partner says where you know Potter duh man you be doing your home all this talking of uh all the time I look alike surviving um but I did one year Community College years ago and ah someone said looked like a white rapper from this all-white rat group I just cannot remember the name of it or base no not third base I know they had a music video where they were all worried monkey costumes oh that's not bad naked ladies are some the bad touch by the Bloodhound Gang Bloodhound Gang yes that was it what I look like one just one bloodhound gang I just lookin visited mother um I got a long time ago when I didn't have any facial hair and I had a bald head out I got they said I look like the lead singer from alien air farm years ago you know what you look like there's that young bro no come on oh yeah then he kinda look like yeah yeah yeah this that was like Jimmy pops4 blood hung yesterday I was Jimmy Popeye I look like Jimmy pop that's how they said I was I'm looking to be pop okay there we go yeah you do does he yeah he do let me look to see the Hollywood sign in the bay okay I see the one with the UH with the red hat all the way to the right holding his ear up that's funny so hundred did you ever do did you ever do a song with jelly um what my one my first songs I ever get a defuse it was um I remember this so clearly because a David Ray of eye for an eye this was before chowder will start blowing up big-time with all the stores and stuff he had jelly roll and Lili Styles another ten stars in the studio and it was 400 bucks for the whole thing the course from Lili the verse from jelly and the beat the David Ray provided and it was pretty much it was a love song that we did as called um ah dang it I forget the name my own song this should not be happening Oh stay with me that was neighbor song was called stay with me stay with me yes honey yeah that was the first time have you heard some of the ink the cover songs that I did the on that biscuit and coach amber stuff I am not yet I mean to listen to it but it always looks my mind I haven't listened to it yet so make sure you that I and I said you the track that mean ASAP did together so you have a copy of that now did awesome I'll play a little clip of it you guys probably can't hear it but uh people in the stream can hear it I'm gonna see if I can just play a little clip of it hunter kills ASAP Scooby who's on the hook that's me on the hook I love messing without our town dude yeah really good hook that's a really good yeah I'm still working on some songs I do auto-tune and they don't work that well but this was one of my better ones Auto Tunes tricky man you know I used it too but you got to kind of be like halfway on on tuned when you're saying yeah yeah oh yeah that's cool yeah so yeah they got me I'm on the first verse a satphone second my other artists my buddies on the third and so that's one of the more popular songs that's kind of been like the lead single for the upcoming album I just have released every now and then just to keep people in the same deep um Hunter do you remember um Mike something like Shelton all the name rings a bell why would I know that sug Mike Shelton true from Triple Threat they were doing um Christian rap years ago it's been like but the time I was coming out it was like what like oh five or something like that back in oh five so I think Mike Sheldon is still doing stuff though yeah he's from he's from Arkansas well now for the salvage out lighting up or something yeah now he's dope man yeah one of my buddies I've done music what four years he goes like virgin he goes like virtualbox over and that's his little laughing and he's a cool guy as like I actually met him during the one year I did two eCollege this is before my walk in crash got a little more salt more out of rock because at the time was still in the sand but we're but he didn't but James was induced in my life I wouldn't be where I am now it's Tyler is partially the reason why because if you're my older stuff I'm still doing secular stuff about hip-hop this is the first actual album that I've done that's going to be more Christian hip-hop based sir so I'm trying to put all the secular behind me for the most part yeah that's what's up man so hey 100 thanks for calling in brother and we're gonna go ahead and end the show here in a minute but I will be back on next week man go ahead and tell everybody about the showmance endlessly got everybody man you bet I will always well being are always love listen you guys and keep up the good work ASAP you're doing great job thanks brother I appreciate it you too man all right love you both brothers my brother low dimensional yes yes that's a good brother right there man we got a yeah we got a tight-knit crew man that people just just on the front lines promoting and stuff on the back ends as well everybody man plays a part in the body like everybody has something about her that you know I'm saying so hunter is definitely an inspiration for one for us to keep keep doing what we're doing and inspiring people like him to come up and keep doing what he's doing as well so that's what's up man oh really did you have anything that you wanted to touch on that we didn't get a chance to no not really I really kind of covered everything would covered uh yeah like Willie we cover that all Dundee DJ Paul Juicy J 3 6 mafia you didn't know you should be talking about all this he's like man I came with this podcast this man had me talking about black Willie man some dude named black Willie man I don't be like yeah I got an interview with truth teller next week I'm like brother I'll do it yeah don't do it man it's a setup yeah the comparisons like fun of you man he's gonna do side-by-side comparisons of these secular rappers man and say who you trying to sound like then he's gonna have all his fans call in and tell you that they don't like your album and they make pick it apart yeah oh yeah job is a critic old man yeah it's cool never I got they own you know what they want in music I'm here I do I came with some stuff and I'll be straight up with the person you know there's some stuff on the radio that people love yes some stuff on you know on the radio that yep I can't care for so I not everybody something like my stuff bro but you know I I don't I don't do it really fur to them I do it for the Lord and yes okay to God intended it to reach - yeah and with the creative process of a man create music that you like because at the end of the day it's something that you enjoy or not like man let's just do something that is like this or something that sounds like this is do something that you enjoy and and if they feel it good and if they don't good you know I'm saying it like whoever is going to resonate with it I'm saying they're gonna get it but at the end of the day because it let's are listening all kind of people they were like man I don't like that screaming I do when I sorta do putting screams in my music I used to do like like like I'm saying wrapping metal mix and they're like man it kind of sounds demonic and I'm this is coming from people who don't listen to metal you know I'm saying and they're like nah man you shouldn't be doing that kind of music man that's not of God it's like just cuz like I listened to that music like it's part of me like and so if I was to listen to those people who told me not to do it then I that's you know some albums under my belt and some awesome songs that came out in that process that I wouldn't have you know even with the new stuff I've done oh man that's kind of I don't know about that you just and essentially like it's good to take constructive criticism but those who are like creative geniuses man it's a lot of a long time like you have to have a lot of time by yourself just like with them versus man and like critiquing it not just throwing something out there oh that's a verse no you got to go back to the drawing board okay I can fit a couple more syllables in that role okay I didn't need to take a breath there I can fit two more words just so that it sounds better you got a you know I'm saying like once you create it you can't take it back like create something beautiful that's going to last you're not saying so that's the way I'm not you know on another note man like from to make me feel comfortable when people said that they're not really feeling my stuff is that uh you know I rather however they life if I'm not called to minister and reach a million people I'm cool with that like I'm cool with my people my audience being low like that my audience is only like 20 people I'm cool with that you know I'm saying that those are 20 people that are getting ministered to yeah you know I'm saying so that meant that God showed me that and it makes me comfortable for what's my music at where that word is yeah that some people are going to be ministered to and some people are not but praise God for the ones that do really really like my music yep no that's what's up man um Hunter hunter comment he said he said no matter to criticism it's love all the way around yeah yes I only tell you that because I love you now people people like different things men um you know I thought that's all good there's people are lots of fans with each album but then I've gained I've gained more it's kind of worked out you know in my favor but um you know it can't be you know who knows man there's people who heard like I'm saying to cover songs I did who haven't heard me scream and they were like they totally cut off or whatever or like I'll upload some old stuff from like 2010 or whatever 2011 and people think it's brand-new and they're like I don't like the new direction you're going well I mean that's from 2010 like that's the old man are you doing yeah I don't like the new stuff may need to go back I was like yeah that's nothing new man you're gonna like the new stuff trust me ready aye brother give you lips away my time man if people wanna follow you on facebook and go buy y'all more iTunes and all that good stuff yeah man anybody want to go check out my stuff you know I got a new project out ASAP preach the interview catch it on iTunes Amazon Google Play all digital download stores you can go check check out my music on YouTube ASAP preach I got plenty music videos for you to check out but go get that album and put my heart into it and I really hope that administers to you you can tentative listen to if you're not saved you know hopefully you find some hope in Christ do this project amen y'all go check it out man support your brother doing some awesome things for the Lord and it's good quality stuff listen to the mix that's what I listen to the mix I have my earbuds in and you can hear everything I'm telling you guys I'm really big on the mix and the effects and not to overdo it on an album and so that's the first thing that stood out to me it's not just vocals laid over a B like I'm saying the engineer and whenever they did the mixing and the mastering sounds great so I vouch for it and you guys who want to see us on the track together yeah y'all leave us a message in the comment and if you'd like to see us do a track together I was thinking there's some stuff I can throw them on so if y'all want to see that leave us a comment let us know we'll make that happen so definitely bro all right so with that over to me get that neat yeah I got something in mind for you too so we definitely make that happen whoo hi brother thanks for coming on man yeah man god bless you guys love y'all man I'm slow talk to you soon right yeah so ASAP preach whoa yeah fine yeah all right so see just only me all right Danny I'm always had to fix my stream here when it goes back to just me look at me just moving stuff around yeah that's pretty much it I'm gonna try to Center myself okay that's it so yeah exciting episode I had fun awesome conversation and what was crazy about it it's like the first 30 minutes or so into the stream like my computer shut down and which craziest the computer usually takes about 30 minutes to turn back on I know 30 minutes but it turned back on within like five minutes so that was really cool came back on I'm pretty sure we preserve preserve the stream and we preserve the audio imma edit it if I have to and uh you know saying try to make the video because the videos always looks really cool put a lot of work into that so with that I'm gonna say Shalom Shalom remember if you like what 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