Big Al: Da Preachaman
Big Al: Da Preachaman
Format: CD
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Artist: Big Al
Label: CD Baby
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 643157391197
Genre: Gospel
I was destined to serve God! From the very beginning. He put me in a time and place in which I would be needy, and so would seek to fill that empty place. I was born Al Deshion Nezy on October 21,1972 in Compton,California. It was just my Mom and I in a bad neighborhood with a lot of odds againest us. I was left with a number of sitters while my Mom worked to pay the bills. It was in these different homes at a very young age when I was exposed to gangs and unspeakable abuse. At 11, my Mom and I moved to Beaumont,Texas to care of my ailing Grandma, and there we stayed. By God\'s grace I was able to get through school without getting into too much trouble. I graduated in 1990 with only a second grade reading level, but thought I had it going on, because a friend and I had been recruited to an aeronautics school. My way-up call came when I couldn\'t keep up with the class due to my poor reading and math skills. I dropped out and that\'s when the real trouble began.I was working, but I was also spending a lot of time on the streets. I felt low so I associated with the lowly. I got into the street music, and rapped about girls, alcohol, drugs, and violence, all the things that had become my life. As God has done for so many others, when I was the lowest, he reached out to me. I was working at a rice mill when I heard his voice. He called my name and asked me where I was going when I died. I had never killed anyone, and really never intended to hurt anyone and sometimes I attended church with my Mom so I was pretty sure I knew, but after the third time God asked me the same question my life with all my sins flashed before me. I then knew I was going, and I wanted something better. With my soul full of spirit, I sought out a church the next Sunday. I cleaned up my act and threw out all the sinful, worldly things in my life including my rapping. The one thing that I miss was the music. The disire to rap was still there, so I went to the Lord and asked Him why I still had such a strong desire for something of the world. He answered me and told me to do it for His glory and His kingdom. I immediately started writing Christian rap and everything I write is from the Holy Spirit.
Tracks:
1.1 Let This Be a Prayer
1.2 Dear Mom
1.3 Freedom
1.4 Choices
1.5 Livin' It
1.6 Battle Cry
1.7 Basketball
1.8 Jesus
1.9 Let It Rain
1.10 Respect
1.11 Dad
1.12 Holy Hop
1.13 Football
1.14 Heart Cry
1.15 Mary J
1.16 Burning 4 Christ
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