Elevation Church founder and senior Pastor Steven Furtick and his spouse, Holly, just lately got here below hearth on-line for supporting their teenage son’s music, which incorporates references to intercourse, weapons and excesses of cash.
Final week, 16-year-old Elijah Furtick, a hip-hop artist whose stage identify is “dothedash!” launched his first album “Teen Machine.“
The album begins with a 30-second introduction that states that the songs are a “genuine reflection of some dimension of the author’s experience or personality” whereas additionally noting that many of the lyrical content material displays experiences which are “fictitious, exaggerated, tongue-in-cheek or otherwise wildly inaccurate.”
Elijah Furtick’s opening music, “No Hook,” options references to oral intercourse, ingesting Hennessy and his “bro” conserving a gun. The music video for the music has over 54,000 views on YouTube.
Following the album’s launch, Furtick praised his son for his onerous work and referred to as him an inspiration.
“The day you showed me your first Garage Band Mark Ronson rip-off beat, I saw the spark. Next came the obsession. You locked yourself away and taught yourself the intricacies of production and the basics of engineering,” the megachurch pastor wrote in a prolonged Fb put up final Wednesday.
Furtick defined that Elijah additionally challenged himself to learn to make tutorial movies for his YouTube channel. Finally, Furtick stated his greatest inspiration was Elijah believing his voice, lyrics, and melodies had been sufficient to create the mission.
“This is the part that inspired me the most. Because even with autotune, letting your voice be heard, even by your own ears, is intimidating,” Furtick stated. “Most people can’t even stand to hear their voice for 10 seconds on an old video on their phone. But you had the courage to conceptualize and execute an entire project – every 808, mix, & melody, you meticulously curated and created, selected and perfected.”
Elijah’s mom, Holly Furtick, instructed her son that she is “so proud of this project” in a touch upon his work on Instagram.
In keeping with The Christian Submit, critics on-line expressed concern in regards to the Furticks’ endorsement of their son’s music given its lyrical content material.
“1 Timothy 3 says that one of the qualifications of a pastor are that … ‘He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity, but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?'” Pastor Keith Bell, an affiliate pastor and jail minister related with Thomas Highway Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, requested in a Fb put up.
Bell contended that Furtick is disqualified from ministry for failing to run his home properly, along with false instructing.
Ruslan KD, a San Diego hip hop artist and professing Christian, additionally shared his ideas in a response video to Elijah’s music “No Hook” on YouTube.
“I don’t blame him [Elijah]. He’s a kid. This is not his fault. This was cosigned by his mom. He posted it, and the mom was like, ‘yeah!’ endorsing it,” Ruslan famous.
“It’s not a good look to be flexing about money and about jewelry when your dad is a pastor … and there is nothing authentic about this,” the rapper continued.
“The No. 1 value in this ecosystem of hip-hop is authenticity and being congruent. So when you have a song that’s literally all hyperbolic nonsense of stuff that he’s not living, this is bad for his career,” Ruslan stated.
Ruslan additionally shared that he tried to succeed in out to Furtick regarding his son, however the megachurch pastor allegedly blocked him on social media.
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