{"id":40611,"date":"2024-10-18T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=40611"},"modified":"2024-10-18T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:47:55","slug":"christians-split-over-collaboration-of-maverick-city-music-kirk-franklin-and-others-on-explicit-glorilla-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/10\/christians-split-over-collaboration-of-maverick-city-music-kirk-franklin-and-others-on-explicit-glorilla-album.html","title":{"rendered":"Christians Split Over Collaboration of Maverick City Music, Kirk Franklin, and Others on Explicit GloRilla Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40608\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/10\/glorilla-mavrick-city_credit-Artistrelationstribl-Wiki_Inset-Tameran-Hall-Show-Youtube.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40608\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/10\/glorilla-mavrick-city_credit-Artistrelationstribl-Wiki_Inset-Tameran-Hall-Show-Youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artistrelationstribl \/ Wikimedia Commons | Inset: Tameron Hall Show \/ Youtube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fans of the Chrisian group Maverick City Music, Kirk Franklin, and other popular Christian artists are split over their recent collaboration on the debut album of secular rapper Gloria Hallelujah Woods, who goes by GloRilla. The album, entitled <em>Glorious<\/em>, includes a song entitled \u201cRain Down on Me,\u201d which features Maverick City Music, Chandler Moore, Kirk Franklin, and Kierra Sheard. Woods herself was homeschooled until high school and grew up in a Christian home, and has spoken about praying with her mother and putting God first. \u201cI always have to put God first in whatever I do,\u201d she said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhuemZttRPk&amp;t=273s\">Tamron Hall Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her history of faith, \u201cRain Down on Me\u201d finds itself as the only song on the album not slapped with an \u201cexplicit\u201d label. The album\u2019s song \u201cLet Her Cook\u201d explicitly describes sex acts, while the song \u201cDon\u2019t Deserve\u201d contains 11 f-words according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/headlines\/contributors\/michael-foust\/maverick-city-music-faces-backlash-for-collab-on-glorillas-new-album-glorious.html\"><em>Crosswalk.<\/em><\/a> Nick Hancock for <a href=\"https:\/\/lomabeat.com\/glorilla-and-maverick-city-make-a-fool-out-of-themselves-in-a-gospel-music-mistake\/\"><em>Loma Beat<\/em><\/a> described the album as \u201c\u202639 minutes of the promotion of drug use, violence, swiping credit cards and adultery, and three minutes of Glo saying sorry to God while Maverick City stands in the corner of the studio.\u201d Reactions on social media were mixed, with one user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thisislaurencia\/status\/1844001586462548165\">commenting<\/a>, \u201cthese \u2018Christian\u2019 gospel artist need to stop compromising. it\u2019s PLENTY of ways to reach souls. Kirk Franklin, Kierra Sheard &amp; Maverick City Music being on Glorilla album is wild. God come get us.\u201d Another user, however, pointed at examples from the Bible of Jesus with sinners. \u201cJesus frequently \u2018collaborated\u2019 with \u2018sinners\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sermoncentral.com\/bible\/new-international-version-niv\/john-4-1-26?passage=John+4%3A1-26\">the woman at the well<\/a>). We have no idea what God has called these artists to do. Christianity is about sharing the good news of the Savior to those who need it most.\u201d Others were hopeful that the song could sow seeds amongst listeners who might not regularly hear gospel-driven songs.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin and Maverick City have received criticism for collaborating with secular artists in the past. Franklin has collaborated with artists such as R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige, and Bono. Franklin also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gospel-singer-kirk-franklin-apologizes-after-son-records-expletive-laden-n1261089\">apologized<\/a> for a profanity-laced phone call that his estranged son, Kerrion Franklin, leaked to social media in 2021. In the call, Franklin can be heard using the f-word and threatening to break Kerrion\u2019s neck. \u201cI felt extremely disrespected in that conversation and I lost my temper. And I said words that are not appropriate, and I am sincerely sorry to all of you,&#8221; Franklin said in his apology to fans. &#8220;I\u2019m not perfect, I\u2019m human and I\u2019m going to make mistakes, and I\u2019m trying to make it right. Please keep me and my family in your prayers.\u201d Hancock, pushed back against Maverick City Music\u2019s involvement on the album. \u201cWithout a doubt, Jesus ate with the tax collectors and sinners in the book of Matthew,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe loves the broken, imperfect souls, but he also wouldn\u2019t let a lost soul remain lost. I didn\u2019t have a problem with Maverick City making a song with Glo until I realized literally every other song on the album follows Glo\u2019s typical vibe. The songs glorify everything Maverick City \u2014 as a worship group \u2014 should be against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the Chrisian group Maverick City Music, Kirk Franklin, and other popular Christian artists are split over their recent collaboration on the debut album of secular rapper Gloria Hallelujah Woods, who goes by GloRilla. 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