Datin left the movie theater wishing he had never watched The Passion of the Christ.
He felt convicted. But he had too much to lose to become a Christian.
By 2004, Datin had established himself as one of the best battle rappers in the nation. His resume included victories at 106 & Park’s Freestyle Friday, Monday Nite Fight Klub and End of the Weak’s MC Challenge.
“He was getting a crazy underground buzz,” said Lionel King, a member of Datin’s group Divided Minds.
Datin started to work with re
“Too bad I don’t never keep my word.” Ironically those are final words in the rap that Pastor Mason Betha, better known as Ma$e delivers on the R&B song, “Tricky Situation.” Turns out, it is a fitting phrase for the nature of the hypocrisy he is being accused of by members of his congregation.
The 36-year-old leader of El Elyon International Church has returned to his bad boy rapper roots to the chagrin of his loyal congregants—a lifestyle he, for a while, denounced after coming to know Je
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The Walt Disney Co. will cut funding to the Boy Scouts of America beginning in 2015 because of a policy that bans gay adult leaders in the organization.
The Boy Scouts organization is “disappointed” by the decision, which will affect the organization’s ability to serve children, Deron Smith, a Boy Scouts spokesman, said in a statement Sunday.
Disney does not provide direct funding to the Boy Scouts, but it donates money to some troops in exchange for voluntee
