This is a follow article up to my testimony on how God delivered me from Black spiritualism. I encourage you to read my testimony.

It’s during that season of deliverance when I recommitted my life to Jesus Christ and became a Conservative Seventh-day Adventist that the Holy Spirit impressed upon me major problems with Black culture and its stronghold in Black spiritualism. After reading The Great Controversy by Ellen White I arrived the intersection of decision: what should I do with the truth I learned?

As I have already shared, I am a Black woman living two hours away from Hollywood, what is considered the center of culture, influence, the arts and the music industry in the world. What I didn’t know, but now understand was the close intimacy that Hollywood has with the occult world and witchcraft.

This has already been shared through extensive research by Professor Walter Veith; the music industry is fueled by a culture of drugs and violence. This has already been shared by Pastor Dwayne Lemon’s testimony; that Black music is Black magic or witchcraft as has been shared in several sermons by Dr. Eric Walsh; and finally, that Black music is structurally and artistically formulated to conjure spirits as has been shared by Evangelist Christian Berdahl. What I’m going to say is only building on their foundation so I encourage you to listen to their sermons.

Three Problems with Black Music and Why you Shouldn’t Listen to it

1. Necromancy is at the heart of Black music. Ancestor worship is the foundation of Black spiritualism as traditional African cultures maintain their perpetuity by their ties to the dead through various rites, rituals, practices and beliefs. So does Black music. In Hip-Hop for example, the founding dead artists are venerated such as 2Pac and Notorious B.I.G. Black artists are compelled to pay homage to these dead artists by referring to them either directly in their lyrics or as some have reported in their interaction with them through seances. It is not uncommon to hear in lyrics that artists “see dead people” or “hear” them. These artists “live on” as spirits hover over the lives of current artists to the point of horrific surrender. If you walk into the bedroom of any teenage person who listens to Hip-Hop is it common to see a poster of these dead artists hanging on their walls. It is this type of veneration through paraphernalia that opens the door to necromancy. Dead artists, or rather spirits parading as them, are the idols of Black music.

Sadly, the myth is if you really wanted to make it in the music industry as an artist you would have to pay for success either by selling your soul to the devil or dying. I’ll never forget the tour guide who told me that 90% of artists die by suicide or overdose. Death is the currency of the Black music industry. Death is glorified in Black music – even Christian Black music or Gospel. The death of Jesus Christ, the passion week and resurrection is at the heart of Gospel music. While this is theologically true, Christian Black music will hardly acknowledge the eternity of the Godhead, that He is the I Am who was and is and is to come (Revelation 1:8), or that death is not what constitutes Jehovah’s identity as the Sovereign Creator and Sustainer of life (Colossians 1:17). Or that He is the God of the living and not the dead (Matthew 22:32). Therefore, Christian Black music is just a dressed up version of necromancy: instead of venerating dead artists it venerates a dead Christ. Death is at the heart of Black music.

2. Black music conjures spirits. Some ask, is it in the drums, the baseline, the rhythm or the style of singing? I say all the above.

Take R&B for example, how many men and women have confessed that it was by listening to R&B that they allowed themselves to enter into sexual immorality, fornication and sexual perversaion? To counter a well-known R&B artist who sang “there is nothing wrong with a little bump and grind…” Black music makes a person bump and grind because it is engineered that way. If you walk into any nightclub that plays Black music you would be surprised to walk into an orgy of half-dressed people: the dancing, gyrating and expected sexual end that follows what the DJ plays. Only that the DJ is the devil and the spirits on the dance floor elevate the sensual or base appetites, subduing the frontal lobe of reasoning, and the “Soul” of the music takes control.

There is “Soul” in Black music but it is not the soul of Christ.
There is “Spiritedness” in Black music but it is not the Spirit of Christ.
There is “Passion” in Black music but it is not the passion of Christ who wants to see every person saved.
There is “Feeling” in Black music but it is the feelings of devils who continue to possess many artists whose personal lives are falling apart.

These are the spirits and demons who are controlling the Black music industry: telling them what to write in lyrics, crafting catchy rhythms and baselines, and parading men who are sexual predators and women who are glorified prostitutes.

This is the kingdom of darkness, darker than the skin tones of the musicians who are trapped in it. I refer to Black music as Trap music: it traps the listener, it traps the artist and it traps the world in a seduction that only the Holy Spirit can exorcise. There is freedom in Jesus Christ who gives victory to anyone who believes (John 8:36). “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers and we are escaped” (Psalm 124:7).

3. Black music does not have Christian values. From the vulgar language, idolatry, degrading of women, racism, victimology, pride and haughtiness, vanity, gluttony, violence and pure hatred, devaluation of human life by promoting the abuse of drugs, rape and abortion to complete rebellion and subversion of any parental, legal or spiritual authority. Black music should not be listened to by any serious Christian. I repeat, Black music should not be listened to by any serious Christian.

“For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17).

But what about Christian rap, Christian R&B/soul or Gospel? Let’s go a little deeper. What is the attitude that follows listening to this music? Does it bring the listener to repentance, self-denial, kindness, gentleness or humility? Are the fruits of the Spirit promoted in the music or does it glorify self? Are the artists’ lives in harmony with Christian values – do they even look like it by all appearances? Does the music align with our health message and promote harmonious mind and body? Do the lyrics talk about “the struggle” or does it show that a victorious Christian life, or sanctification of moral perfection, is possible by the imputed righteousness of Christ? Does the music uphold purity, righteousness or holiness? Does the music firmly renounce unsanctified behavior such as drug and substance use, piercings, jewelry and tattoos, irreverence, filthy joking and language and rebelliousness? “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (1 Samuel 15:23).

Does the music hold onto its secular counterpart’s attitude of “only God can judge me” stubbornness to correction and spiritual exhortation? Is the music holy or filthy (James 1:21)? Is the music worldly (1 John 2:15-17) or heavenly? Is it spiritual or is it the animalistic screams of demons heard (Mark 5:1-20)? Is it a still small voice (1 Kings 19:12) you hear or the loudness of Baal worship (1 Kings 18)? Does the music bring you to your knees in humble submission to Christ (James 4:7-10) or jump up and down as did the prophets of Baal? Does the music prepare you to meet Jesus Christ blameless (2 Peter 3:14, Jude 24)?

Finally, which Christ is really being talked about since there will be many false Christs at the end of time (Matthew 24:24)? These are questions that only the Holy Spirit can answer and if we are honest we already know the answer.

How do we respond to those who retort to David’s dancing (2 Samuel 6:14) or the prophetess Miriam’s use of drums/tambourines (Exodus 15:20), can we really draw the line? Yes, I believe the Bible does not contradict itself and that the Spirit of Prophecy agrees with its Biblical foundation. These incidences do not collude with the seducing spirits we are warned about (1 Timothy 4:1) because the fruit of their music is evident in their lives (Matthew 7:17-20). Can we say the same with the musicians today? Personally, I have been convicted that it is not the everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6) that is in the heart of Gospel music. Furthermore, I do not separate secular Black music and religious Black music for one reason alone, the fruit is the same in the lives of the musicians, listeners and atmosphere it generates. Walk into any church Black or White that plays Gospel and you will notice that the spiritual standards (in dressing, lifestyle, family life and financial priorities) are much lower than what we uphold as Present Truth. We cannot separate what we hear from what we see because the Spirit does not contradict itself.

But you don’t have to believe me, I encourage you to read The Voice in Speech and Song by Ellen White who is much more explicit. We need to pray for a spirit of discernment and wisdom (James 1:6), the right spirit to possess us (James 3:13-18), and courage to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 5:11, 4:15).

Why are so many White, Asian, Latin and Pacific Islander people making up a majority of listeners, and why is there now so many non-Black people in the Black music industry? Black music has transcended race. It’s not about Blackness anymore.

The same spirits and demons who have crafted this artform are now repackaging the contents with new packaging. White people are rapping, Asian people are dancing and Latin people are wearing gang uniform. Black music has become a phenomena that has spread to the four corners of the world with one objective: to destroy Christianity.

Why should we as Christians care? Because this is the music that may have contributed to the adultery you witnessed, the pornography that destroyed your marriage, the child that disrespected your authority, the person who was murdered, the overdosed corpse you buried, the racism that you encountered, and the attitudes that are making conversations like these necessary. This is the music that is destroying our church. Black music is destroying us.

Stop listening to Black music! Stop promoting it with your dollars, your friendship, your influence, your apathy, your dancing and your attitude. Instead, pray that this train leading to hell comes to an end.

Pray that God will raise up a generation who will hold the cultural line with Christian values. Pray that the Holy Spirit will inspire Black musicians to compose music that is appropriate for the times we are living in. Pray for revival. Pray for reformation. Pray for hearts to be changed. Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain.

And pray that Jesus Christ comes again soon. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom.

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