00:00Heaven is about the innocent question of what are the rules of this religion that I've been
00:04born into.
00:06I had a crush when I was in church and I was wondering, how do we start a family?
00:10How do we make love?
00:17We just had like this, this like grandiose Jesus-like table and we would just discuss
00:23different topics.
00:23It'd be our therapy.
00:25This particular day, I was just curious, I'm like, there's a lot of women that have
00:29a Bible verse in their bio.
00:31The question is for you all, can we make love to gospel music?
00:55I'm going through the lens of when I was a youngster in church where all I'm doing is waiting for
01:02church to end so I can play tag.
01:03In these innocent years, I have my first crush in church, but I'm like, I can't hold her hand,
01:10can't hug her too long, so I'm like, what are the rules here, but I like this girl.
01:14I'm just thinking back to those initial questions as I'm listening to the sermon and hearing about
01:20what happens if you don't do this and don't do that.
01:22I put myself there first to then build to where I'm at now with the women in the Bible verses.
01:27Oh, I love a church girl, she got another side, putting on a sunny vest for me, making love
01:33to Hezekiah, walking in and out my life, dedicated to your soul journey.
01:39Hezekiah Walker was the first artist I heard during Hallelujah Night.
01:43When you don't go out trick-or-treating, you just dress up as a gospel artist and perform on stage.
01:50That's when you see most of the girls in church outside of church clothes.
01:53So it's just like, wait a minute.
01:54It's a memory that triggered like, okay, we got to ask this question again.
01:58Can I hug her?
01:59I memorize you like books in the Bible.
02:03Girl, you can't be my revival when you say my name, Mitch.
02:08I come from a time where we have Bible books.
02:10You know what I mean?
02:11That's what I had to have to buy certain things if I did certain tasks,
02:15like memorize all the books in the Bible.
02:17You know what I mean?
02:17Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, you know?
02:20Them Thessalonians used to get me, the Thessalonians.
02:22I know all of it, and the Bible books bought me a Bible.
02:26You know, they played you.
02:27I thought I was going to get a PS2, but you can only buy another Bible.
02:52I have a very fond memory of this Kirk Franklin music video.
02:57It might have been for Stomp, and then he caught the football,
03:00and it's all these tall football players in the neighborhood, and he's just like,
03:04hey, man, you know, I'm a Jesus freak.
03:06You know what I'm saying?
03:06Spread the gospel and all that.
03:08And it's that time in the 90s where like Kirk is like,
03:11whoa, you're going too far.
03:12Are these 808s in gospel music?
03:14You know what I mean?
03:15So I feel like I just have that memory of him always being forward-thinking
03:19and pushing the genre forward and placing himself in a lot of secular environments.
03:23I need that energy of like, let's push the conversation forward.
03:27Drewski did something.
03:28I don't know what, but I'm trying to do something over here.
03:31We're going to find our way to God somehow.
03:34After choir rehearsal, you would come over.
03:37I was so nervous, fearful thinking, happy simping,
03:42carrot clock and background singing.
03:44A lot of people don't understand like the schedule of a church kid.
03:48You know, you leave church to then go prepare for church.
03:51So it's like choir rehearsal.
03:53Now you're about to go to Bible study.
03:54I left church, but I'm playing church music at the crib.
03:57And so I feel like I wanted to get somebody that doesn't understand
03:59that to still picture what the life is looking like.
04:02You're not alone, you're not alone.
04:04I want your hand, I want your hand.
04:07I'll help you, I'll help you to understand, understand, understand.
04:13I love little Easter eggs in songs.
04:15I think there's this viral video from, well, back in the day of YouTube.
04:19You got Kiera Kiki Sheard and Karen Clark and they're like singing together.
04:23And you're seeing one of these things that the singer does where you can
04:28make a delay happen in real life.
04:30And she's just echoing her own voice.
04:32And it's just a classic moment in gospel.
04:34And I feel like that was such a memorable
04:37piece of when I'm playing that music in the background.
04:39It's like, oh, this, this woman is special.
04:42So just a little Easter egg.
04:44You would know all the things that say to ease the pain and sweet melodies like.
04:54I'll memorize you like books of the Bible.
04:57Girl, you can be my revival when you say my name is.
05:02I feel like when it comes to a woman, you got a lyric, sir.
05:06You know what I mean?
05:06For her to decide if, you know, you will be allowed in her garden.
05:10Because of that, I felt like I had to let everybody know, you know,
05:14I was innocent, but I could always say these words.
05:17And heaven is a perfect metaphor because it's like the highest compliment you can give a woman.
05:21It's just like you are this thing that everybody's trying to get to.
05:25It's just love.
05:31My father was in the military, you know what I'm saying?
05:33He was a very strong man, very large muscles.
05:36And then he had this look that was just like,
05:38did you remember Amos and Revelation?
05:41I was like, no, sir.
05:42And next thing I know, I'm beaten.
05:45But then I learned the books after that beating.
05:48And that's why I'm like disciplined.
05:50I needed it.
