Earl Simmons Goes Gospel

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Jesus Take The Wheel, News, Random Ridiculousness

Posted by Bossip Staff

DMX gospel

DMX is releasing two albums at once with one being a gospel album:

“I [was] the first n—a to put out two albums in one year [It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood in 1998], now I’m gonna hit ‘em again — drop two albums on the same f—in’ day, yo. A double album will make mutha—-as mad, because they gotta spend more money — plus it’s already a long [double] album. I’m talking about a hip-hop album and a gospel album.”

The gospel album’s lyrics will be without cursing — how ’bout that one? No songs about b—-es, no songs about robbing, just straight ‘Give God the glory.’ “

Sounds interesting. We just hope he can lay off the rocks long enough for Jesus to take the wheel.

Via MTV

  • DROCK

    NIGRA PLEAZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!

  • KellieAnn

    Yes FIRSTTT!!!

  • KellieAnn

    damn well 2nd lmaooo

  • http://www.theblackactor.com Baby Please

    Please!

    I mean Baby Please.

  • me that’s who

    have no clue what to make of this…..lol what they really want is still my jam tho……

  • DROCK

    EARL.. I SHALL GIVE U THE 1ST “HOE.SIT.DOWN” OF 08…CAUSE HE KNOW GOOD A DARN WELL HE AIN’T “FOUND” JESUS…MAYBE A USED CRACK PIPE….

  • ISIS77

    Lucky #7. Loves me some X

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    LMAO, @ “The gospel album’s lyrics will be without cursing — how ’bout that one? No songs about b—-es, no songs about robbing, just straight ‘Give God the glory.’ DUH!!!!!! :-)

  • Bones Jordan

    @ DRock, don’t hate my dude. It’s a great thing. And you never know what a person’s heart?spirit is doing. Go get em X. ARF, ARF!! WHAT THE DEAL?

  • Strong Black Man

    @just sit and be pretty….be my internet girlfriend….yes, no, maybe…

    *folds note and puts it in her locker*

  • Bones Jordan

    Im sincerely glad for the brotha, and question to all…. If a man smokes rocks, weed, or heroin or whatever, does that make him beyond saving or unable to worship his God and spread a message that man believes could help somebody. I(and I know yall did too) prayed with X on some of those albums. Jesus is IMHO, the best thing one can find in this life. Holla @ me yall.

  • Rebel78 (Free MrODot)

    @Just Sit

    I gotta co-sign on that one…but you know they had to put the disclaimer with Earl cause any man who barks at folks aint right and you never know about his “gospel”. :-)

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama is STILL sick but feeling a bit better

    DMX is releasing two albums at once with one being a gospel album:

    OH PLEASE!!! don’t let him be barking on that gospel album…I can see it now the intro for a song “are father who art in heaven…grrr ARF ARF!” not a GOOD LOOK EARL.

  • Keepin’ It Real (D’Original)

    Lord Give Me A Sign…

  • buttafly

    This idiot needs to stop playing with God and lay off tha crack. Crack is Whack LOL.

  • http://lacydpage.hi5.com lacyd (FREE MODOT)

    Good Morning guys!!

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama is STILL sick but feeling a bit better

    You think dark man x knows that he can’t curse on the gospel album?

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama is STILL sick but feeling a bit better

    hey lacyd I ain’t get my free mr o dot shirt yet? is that cuz mines is custom made?

  • J

    Um, why is he using curse words to promote a gospel album?

  • http://lacydpage.hi5.com lacyd (FREE MODOT)

    Hey BMama!! Yeah, your shirt is custom made. Just add Free Mr O Dot behind your name, hence cyber t-shirt!!!

  • Strong Black Man

    @Lacyd….Mr. O Dot is tied up in Mickit’s basement..she is feeding him naked pics of herself forcing his eyes to bleed

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama wants her hubby back FREE HUBBY!!!

    gotcha lacyd!

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama wants her hubby back FREE HUBBY!!!

    um SBM um-a-ra i take it u and mickit ain’t gettin along? i mean iono what caused me to say that…lol

  • http://www.idontgivearatsass.com Bahama Mama wants her hubby back FREE HUBBY!!!

    BACK ON TOPIC

    LMAO everytime dmx goes to curse on the gospel c.d they gone have him growling or barking. MAN i just can’t see this happen’n

  • http://lacydpage.hi5.com lacyd (FREE MODOT)

    SBM,

    Oh ya’ll are still beefing. But it would be a nice cover up on her part!! Why I got a co-worker who really talks to herself??? I caught her the other day having a conversation with herself about chicken.

  • http://lacydpage.hi5.com lacyd (FREE MODOT)

    Bmama,

    Right, I don’t even want to think about what he has in store for that album. I may go to hell.

  • Strong Black Man

    lol mickit…tsk just a hater

  • FyreStarrter

    DAYUM I luvs me some X!!! His music when he is on the real schitt feeds my hunger & warms my soul for real! He is on a whole other level for me. He’s the hardcore blues of my generation.

    @SBM for real his schitt is on a whole other plane. & I LUV all of it. The bangers, the heart-wrenching soul ballads. Pulling out the Ipod right now for a dose because it’s been a long ass 2007!!

  • truth

    i’m not mad at him!…it’s evident that peeps here don’t read the WORD…do any of you know how GANGSTA Peter was….he sliced a brother’s ear off for disrespecting Jesus!….but that’s the problem with religion…people think you’re suppose to be a certain way to worship God…it clearly states in the bible that Jesus said that he wasn’t here for those sanctified folk…he’s here for the lost sheep….be careful what you say because u might find yourself crying out to God sooner than you think!….Amen!

  • Rob base

    Hypocrite. Just talk about shooting black folks one minute then praise god the next and people apparently will fall for it.

  • Rebel78 (Free MrODot)

    …ummmm truth

    you don’t even deserve to get a real reply to your stupid post! but i’m going to anyway. Can you read? If so, do me a favor and re-read starting from the beginning and let me know who said anything about religion or the bible.. All comments have been about him growling, barking and hopefully not saying b*tches and hos on his gospel cd..

  • Mo’Ree

    Speechless…the last video of him I saw contained “BAM! BAM! NI*&A GO DOWN!!!!”

  • lisa

    he is my favorite. I am his big fan. Is he single now? Just curious. I saw his profile on millionaire dating site CelebMingle.com last week.

  • Kdogg

    I saw the show called “Man vs Wild” a couple of months back. This white guy went into Africa without(supposedly)any supplies and tried to teach how to survive in the wild.

    He needed water and showed how you could squeeze water from Elephant sh@t and drink it. Thats right, he drank brown stinky elephant dung water. And you know what? He said it smelled, and tasted like sh@t! Not only that it was full of bacteria and parasites, just like sh@t.

    Moral of the story? The liquid squeezed from Elephant sh@t is still sh@t.

    Somehow this applies to DMX’s making of a gospel album. :roll:

  • The Ground of Being

    SMH! Just mention ‘Jesus’ or ‘God’, and all us black folk fall in line! Centuries of ACTION, stunted by the paralysis of prayer and proselytization. How strong is the mind which resists the pressure of social & cultural conditioning….

    Good mornin’ y’all

  • truth

    @Rebel…it’s okay…don’t have hate or anger in your heart over me…I’m not worth your salvation…but if you’re going to talk about praising God, that comes from the bible…but i undertand u completely…matthew 10:22 speaks of u clearly…again i’m not worth your salvation…now let me give you a bit of advice…to REBEL is as the sin of witchcraft…u may consider changing your name…God bless u and may his peace rest in your heart…(not being funny i really mean it)

  • Lite&Sweet

    Sweet and foul water cannot come out of the same fountain. Prayerfully this is a step towards true redemption for the brotha. You cant ride the fence into Heaven.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    LOL @ SBM, umm, don’t you already and an internet chick? :-) @ Rebel, you’re right…’cause he seems the type that could accidentally slip some expletives in a gospel song. Reminds of that one chick Saphhyri on Flavor of Love who was praying…”Dear Jesus, please keep me from beating this girl’s ass…”

  • N-Quizzy (N- Qui-Sa-Tive)

    Please take this blog to the next page. Even bring back Kelly Rowland to take its place. SMH

  • AAB

    That sounds like a hot ass boiling mess in the making. Did anyone happen to catch that lil reality tv show he had, that man needs to be in some kind of institution.

  • anonymous

    all you scripture quoting hypocrites need to take that bible and shove it up your asses, ’cause don’t NONE of you follow it, then you have the nerve to turn around and try to judge somebody else by quoting scriptures? what about the “scripture” that tells you not to judge your neighbor? do y’all conveniently forget about that one? SMH.

  • kdogg

    Anonymous said:

    what about the “scripture” that tells you not to judge your neighbor? ”

    ——————————————————————————————————

    Why don’t you show where the Bible says that and explain how you come to the conclusion that the Bible is against “judging a tree by its fruit.”

  • imrightdammit

    @Strong Black Man,

    I thought I was your internet girlfriend! U cheatin’ on me? Wait til I get my hands on Ms. Sit and Be Pretty!!!!

  • The Ground of Being

    The bickering proves my point. We as a people, and on a larger scale, the human race, have become lazy; generation after generation become talking heads for the inherited religions of our particular culture. We speak of this ‘bible’ as our Ground of Being. And why not, for most of us, Christianity is imprinted within the core of our psyche, from jump. What would we be if not psychologically imprinted with religion? We are afraid of the answer, because of the security of ‘belief’….

  • Chi mi

    @N-Quizzy (N- Qui-Sa-Tive)

    Hey!!! Are we peacemakers this year or are we still on vacation?

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    LOL @ imright…not my fault, I didn’t do nutten.:-) *looking all innocent*

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    *thinking to self, WTH is ground of being talking about* AND *who’s looking for a religious debate this early in the morning?*

  • imrightdammit

    @Ground of Being………. HUH??

  • imrightdammit

    and @Just Sit

    Don’t try to act all innocent now. Damn! What happened to sistas looking out for each other???? I turn my back for one minute, ONE MINUTE I TELL YA, and you’re already trying to move in on my man.

  • Marv

    will have a dues with Donnie Mcgayrkin?

  • Londie

    I think he can pull it off. This man is not dumb at all, and as an earlier post stated he’s had his troubles but can he not be saved? I also believe he is the realist rapper out there

  • The Ground of Being

    Just Sit: ur not fooling me! I’ve read many of your posts, and recognize your intelligence. I think that u have an understanding of what I’m talking about. Hey IRD.

  • imrightdammit

    What up, Ground of Being?!

  • Dalia

    DMX is still hittin’ that stuff.

  • The Ground of Being

    IRD:

    I’M good, thx. I can’t help but comment on an issue in which I find ‘crucial’. We have our minds hijacked from youth, and hardly ever question religious authority.

  • imrightdammit

    @Ground

    That may be true for some people. I just happen to have asked the questions, and still remain devout. Perhaps people confuse organized religion with God and the message. But just because you are a believer doesn’t mean your mind is hijacked.

  • michelle

    Two things in the world, no three that you simply should not do.

    1. Abuse the elderly and children

    2. Break in/or rob a church

    3. Play with God

    I pray no one buys that

  • michelle

    Two things in the world, no three that you simply should not do.

    1. Abuse the elderly and children

    2. Break in/or rob a church

    3. Play with God

    I pray no one buys that FAKE GOSPEL ALBUM!!

  • kdogg

    “We have our minds hijacked from youth, and hardly ever question religious authority.”

    ——————————————————————————————————

    The same could be said about every institution in the world…not just religion.

    Science, Math, education in general, politics, morality, ethics, Capitalism, sex…

    Everything you are told or exposed to from youth can influence you positively or negatively. Religion does not hold a monopoly on that.

    To suggest that by having a belief system makes a person somehow lazy or dependent is very arrogant and hypocritical of you. The lack of a religion can, itself, be considered a religion if the “non-believer” tries to convince others to follow or see their non-belief.

    One good thing about true Christians is that they dont see themselves as religion followers but rather Christ followers and that comes not as a result of being brainwashed but rather as a result of some heart washing. Of course the non-believer would not believe in Christ and therefore could not/ will not understand. Out of this frustration or lack of understanding is birthed a new religion…”The Anti Religion.”

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Ground, you’re right, I could go there, but don’t particularly feel like it. Thanks for recognizing the intelligence. ;-)

    Imright, scroll up, SBM approached me, not the other way around, ergo, shouldn’t you cyber kick his arse? :-)

  • The Ground of Being

    Belief systems are the primary reason that we have not matured psychologically, for thousands of years. Our technological advances are extraordinary; but we are held in check, victims to psychological conditioning.

    We find comfort in groups; ‘true christians’, atheists, catholics, democrats, etc. This comfort keeps the mind lethargic and leads to atrophy.

    It takes tremendous strength to face ones self and question conformity, to resign from the security of the group. I know this fact firsthand….

    I’m not trying to convince anyone. Sway or convince.

    Take care and be aware.

  • imrightdammit

    @Ground,

    Are you off levitating somewhere over Berkley again?

  • The Ground of Being

    No levitation here, IRD. I’m just a simple brotha’ who has found a few answers to some hard questions….

  • imrightdammit

    @Ground. I was just joking. I respect your opinion and respect ANYONE that puts some brain power behind their thoughts and actions. Even if we don’t agree on everything, at least you came to the conclusion through thought and not because someone else said so.

  • Tasha Mack

    Drugs or not X is a beast on the mike. I’m so looking forward to these cd’s. Still got love for that figga.

  • The Ground of Being

    No worries IRD. Let me leave y’all with this quote:

    “We are going to discuss this morning the dissolution of the Order of the Star. Many will be delighted, and others will be rather sad. It is a question neither for rejoicing nor for sadness, because it is inevitable, as I am going to explain….

    I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

    This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley….

    So that is the first reason, from my point of view, why the Order of the Star should be dissolved. In spite of this, you will probably form other Orders, you will continue to belong to other organisations searching for Truth. I do not want to belong to any organisation of a spiritual kind; please understand this….

    If an organisation be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. So that is another reason why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Order, to dissolve it.

    This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies. Then you will naturally ask me why I go the world over, continually speaking. I will tell you for what reason I do this; not because I desire a following, not because I desire a special group of special disciples. (How men love to be different from their fellow-men, however ridiculous, absurd and trivial their distinctions, may be! I do not want to encourage that absurdity.) I have no disciples, no apostles, either on earth or in the realm of spirituality.

    Nor is it the lure of money, nor the desire to live a comfortable life, which attracts me. If I wanted to lead a comfortable life I would not come to a Camp or live in a damp country! I am speaking frankly because I want this settled once and for all. I do not want these childish discussion year after year.

    A newspaper reporter, who interviewed me, considered it a magnificent act to dissolve an organisation in which there were thousands and thousands of members. To him it was a great act because he said: “What will you do afterwards, how will you live? You will have no following, people will no longer listen to you.” If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves?….

    Because I am free, unconditioned, whole, not the part, not the relative, but the whole Truth that is eternal, I desire those, who seek to understand me, to be free, not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect. Rather should they be free from all fears – from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of spirituality, from the fear of love, from the fear of death, from the fear of life itself. As an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in that painting, because it is his self-expression, his glory, his well-being, so I do this and not because I want any thing from anyone. You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers – a miracle – transport you to this realm of eternal freedom which is Happiness. Your whole outlook on life is based on that authority.

    You have listened to me for three years now, without any change taking place except in the few. Now analyse what I am saying, be critical, so that you may understand thoroughly, fundamentally….

    For eighteen years you have been preparing for this event, for the Coming of the World Teacher. For eighteen years you have organised, you have looked for someone who would give a new delight to your hearts and minds, who would transform your whole life, who would give you a new understanding; for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life, who would give you new encouragement, who would set you free – and now look what is happening! Consider, reason with yourselves, and discover in what way that belief has made you different – not with the superficial difference of the wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd. In what manner has such a belief swept away all unessential things of life? That is the only way to judge: in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every society which is based on the false and the unessential? In what way have the members of this organisation of the Star become different?….

    You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else…. when I say look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. So why have an organisation?….

    No man from outside can make you free; nor can organised worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organisation, nor throwing yourselves into work, make you free. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an alter and worship it. But that is what you are doing when organisations become your chief concern. “How many members are there in it?” That is the first question I am asked by all newspaper reporters. “How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.” I do not know how many there are. I am not concerned with that. If there were even one man who had been set free, that were enough….

    Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity….

    You have been accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible?….

    But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without a beginning and without an end, will walk together with greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that true friendship – which you do not seem to know – there will be real co-operation on the part of each one. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.

    So those are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone – I am not persuaded in such things. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organisations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”

  • http://gorgeousblackwomen.blogspot.com/ GorgeousBlackWomen

    SMDH

  • tlatrice

    @Ground

    Please don’t EVER leave a post that long again.

    LOL!!!

  • Rebel78 (Free MrODot)

    @truth

    it’s okay…don’t have hate or anger in your heart over me…I’m not worth your salvation…but if you’re going to talk about praising God, that comes from the bible…but i undertand u completely…matthew 10:22 speaks of u clearly…again i’m not worth your salvation…now let me give you a bit of advice…to REBEL is as the sin of witchcraft…u may consider changing your name…God bless u and may his peace rest in your heart…(not being funny i really mean it)

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^in my Bible (KJV) Matt 10:22 says “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved” so yes thank you! It very much does apply to me. Again I think you are the only one in here with hate, anger or malice in their heart. Maybe you should take some time off and prayer about that.

  • Rotex

    Its nice he is going gospel.

  • MzJessica

    OMG. Lets hope he’s not serious. That 2 album in a day mess is so Nelly and TI. On top of that a Gospel album? Lord help him.

  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/graphics/2007/11/14/scisurf114.jpg The Ground of Being

    No worries @ tl@rice!

  • BostonBitty

    this is exciting news. If you ever watch the show u would see that he is a conflicted man. Hopefully he is on his way to redemption

  • Kim

    DMX was not the 1st person to put out an album… actually TuPac was in 1996 with All Eyez On Me

  • http://URL desert

    I HAVE READ ALL THE THINGS EVERYONE HAS SAID,BUT I BELIEVE THAT EARL NEEDS THE LORD. THIS IS A PERSONAL THING BETWEEN HIM AND THE LORD. JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS FOR ALL OF OUR SINS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO A DOUBLE ALBUM YOU NEED TO GET RIGHT WITH THE LORD AND GET RID OF THE DRUGS. YOU WILL NEVER FIND PEACE AND JOY IN DRUGS AND MONEY.

    I LIVE NOT FAR FROM YOU AND HAVE SEEN YOU LATE AT NIGHT WITH YOU ATD DUSTING UP THE ROAD.

    I PRAY THAT YOU WILL CHANGE YOU LIFE BEFORE IT IS TO LATE. WE ARE ONLY ON THIS EARTH FOR A SHORT TIME. HEAVEN IS FOREVER. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

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