Praise God, glory to God. This is evangelist Michael Fernandez. If you want to be a part
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in the name of Christ, God is the greatest.
This is evangelist Michael Fernandez. Today we have an awesome guest today, Ricky Bradford.
He's a rap singer and I like to say something to all those audiences listening who love
the rap music. I know there are some that might have a second opinion of that but you
have to consider there are some young people out there that are lost that do love that
rap music and that's the audience we want to focus and try to get them into the kingdom
of God. Just like Saint Paul says, when I go among the Greek, I become a Greek. When
I go among the Jews, I become a Jew. Basically you go down to their level or up to the level.
It doesn't matter. It does not downgrade any type of songs, whatever, but basically exalt
in the name of Jesus. Praise God for Ricky Bradford here. What got you started in rap
music, brother?
I've been rapping since I was about seven years old in a group called the Acosol Dance
Company and we were a group of young kids from like a underprivileged neighborhood of
Acosol and we had a mentor by the name of Arthur MacArthur who was a part of the Alvin
Ailey Dance Company a long time ago and he was from the hood too. So he wanted to come
back and give to the hood. He taught us to do a lot of dancing and stuff but I noticed
then when we were traveling that I could rap a little bit. So he kind of had me, myself
and Tommy Earl put a couple of raps together and in between dances we would be rapping
at different events and it kind of stuck with me and I did it throughout elementary, throughout
junior high in high school. I got a little click and start recording in studios and then
as I grew up I started doing it on an almost secular level with groups like the Houstoners,
Boss Hogg, Outlaws, J-Doll, Trader Truth, all of those guys but it's just been a blessing
indeed to just transfer that over and do it on the other side now.
That was a New Year's Eve 2008. I started rapping for Jesus Christ and I didn't intend
to do it like that at first. I just gave my life to Jesus Christ and the covering that
I had at that time, they let me know that they went on my YouTube page and saw things
that I did on the secular side and they felt that God, it was my calling that God wanted
it to be for me to use that talent to bring souls to the Kingdom and at first I was kind
of confused on how I would be able to do it but once I got rid of the word a little bit
more man everything started panning out and here I am now, glory to God.
And also your goal for Jesus, your main goal in your life now that you accepted Jesus and
you know what the new life experience is, share with the audience and tell them how
Jesus is real to you and your goal to do for things for the living.
Well of course the music end of the thing is booming for me right now so I want to focus
on that a little bit but everybody knows my main focus is on outreach man. I'm here for
them kids and I'm here for the Finstragilist. I'm here for the folks that don't know at
all and want to know or even think they don't want to know. That's what God put me here
for so my goal is to get my nonprofit to officially be up and running straight the Jesus boys
movement. I want to get the Jesus boys house, it's an after school program for young men
where they can come get to the ring, they can come worship, they can have a recording
studio in there if they want to do music and they're all going to be clean and all going
to be Christian music. They can get, I want to have different Bible study nights. I just
want to have somewhere else for them to go to have fun. I want to be so state of the
art that they have so much fun there and they don't want to turn to the world for anything
but I want to get educated and school wise spiritually as well. Different programs for
their mothers and fathers if they're going through different things can come through
the Jesus boys house. That's just the thing that I'm working on right now. Just stay steadfast
in my outreach to grow. Shout out to Lisa Osteen and Deborah George because that's who
I get down with in the streets. Brother John Bowman too. I'm just trying to grow on the
outreach end of it and see if I can match it up with the whole artistry end of the thing.
I understand that you got involved and became a member of Lakewood Church which is also
the church I go to. Glory to God. We do go to the same church don't we? Yeah, everybody
know I ministered there the first time in January of this year and ever since that first
Wednesday I ministered. They kind of kept me up under their wing just covered me a little
bit and I did not have a church on. I had a covering in Dr. Ed Buford at God's Grace
Community Church First Lady Bobby Buford but I didn't have a church home and I felt that
home at Lakewood Church. It just made me feel so welcome and they supported my ministry
and the movement so much. They were so concerned about the well-being of myself, my soul and
my family and I never got that kind of personal attention before. I guess it was kind of like
a spoiled move or something but for that church to be so big and so powerful and past the
Osteen to be such the mighty man of God that he is and sister Lisa to be where they are
and to still reach out to me the way they do. It just stood out to me a little bit. It
was just like God letting me know that that's where he wanted me to be and whatever I was
going to do it was going to match the level of Christ that comes out of their church.
I was going to be able to add to it and collectively we were going to be able to win souls. Souls
of blessing indeed. Shouts out to John Gray, Lisa Osteen and Pastor Osteen. Sister Victoria
I love all y'all man and I just thank you all so much for inviting me in and having
me home. Praise the Lord. So I could see you praise God for the goodness of God putting
you under a good church and not someone that condemns you but show you the love of God
and share with the audience how can they get ahold of you if they want to invite you for
their church events or youth events and share with them what website and so on. On Facebook
you can go to my public figure page is Ricky Too Crunk for Jesus Bradford or you can just
go to my website which is www.ICRUNK, the number for Jesus.com. Alright so that's Too Crunk
for Jesus.com. Praise God you heard it audience. You'll be able to get ahold of brother Ricky
Bradford. You make sure to go to his website and what are you working on for the future
music? We're actually in the studio right now here at Lucky Run Studios. My boy Adam
and JTel, Mike and I'm working on my not my mixtape but I'm actually working on my
album Tattoo Testimony. I do have an upcoming mixtape mixtape coming out called Struggle
Music 2. Yeah I know the first mixtape was called Struggle Music 1 so we're gonna keep
the struggle music theme going and I'm coming out with Struggle Music 2 and also my main
album is gonna be called Tattoo Testimony. The song I'm working on right now is featuring
Chris Godby and it's called I'm All Yours and that's a slower tempo song but it's gonna
open up your horizons when the Lord start elevating. Praise God and I could understand what about
your CD regarding the picture on there with no shirt on there. Share with us about that.
Man yeah like I said well this CD right here is probably about two years old now you know
like I said we started about two years ago working on it and when I first started doing
this like I said I do this for the Finstraglers, for the folks that don't know Christ and for
the folks that don't think they know Christ you know how I used to say is man you can't
save nobody that's already saved so I mean if you're a saved Christian and you feel what
I'm doing over here that's a blessing indeed but God didn't put it in my heart to do anything
for y'all on that level that's not what my calling is. It's for the folks that don't
know and so if I'm going against people like not necessarily going against but if I'm trying
to buck the little wanes and the JZ's and the young JZ's I'm gonna come with the same
thing they come with but I'm gonna come with it in Jesus name and you know long as what's
on here is the word of God like they can pass by this CD right here and see me with a shirt
in town and pass it right on up they can come and they can see me with the shirt off not
that it's glorifying me in any kind of way but it's getting their attention it says Jesus
and there's a man with no shirt on and they can pick it up and I promise you is all word
they pop it in a CD for the wrong reason by the time they get their ears to the music
they're gonna be listening to it for the right reason you know I mean I can put I know people
that's putting on certain ties but then when you open up the CD and put the CD in is not
the word of God on the CD so I'm coming in reverse mode and it's a tactic that God put
on my heart to do and ever since I've done it man like I say I saw 1400 CDs in one day
before so like you know somebody must like it you know I give I give out a glory to God
by the way Jesus was born without no see without no shirt on and he died without no shirt on
praise the Lord you hear that audience praise that it's exciting and those youngsters do
you have they like to listen to the rap music well get one of these CDs just give it to
them so they could hear the gospel in another way of hearing the gospel about the goodness
of God praise be the name of Jesus and can you tell the people one more time how can
they get a hold of you or you can reach me at www.icrunk the number for Jesus.com and
also we're at the end of this tape and we're going to be able to have him sing two songs
and praise God is exciting we're going to share with us the names of the songs a little
bit of the songs what they meant to you.
The first song I'm going to do is it's called Satan Fall Back you know like when I first
came to Christ I was with a fence straggler you know I was still smoking a lot of weed
still doing the homo grin thing like taking advantage of this pedestal that God was giving
me when somebody reached out for me for one reason I was you know falling into another
trap you know and it was kind of discouraging because I do love the Lord and I always love
the Lord I never did not not love the Lord but I wasn't always as strong in Christ to
do His will at the level that I was supposed to do it on and I used to just get mad and
be like Satan fall back and you can hear it in this song man the song called Satan Fall
Back is basically just telling the devil to get the heck away because I'm trying to do
something better with my life and the second song is called amazing and if y'all know the
Lord like I know the Lord and you know he is amazing and he's just telling my testimony
about how God has brought me out of Rudson and roots of holes in my life and just the
glory the glory that I get when I when I just call on his name it's amazing just being involved
with Christ's period and it's featuring my cousin Vioria Moore. Praise God Ricky share
with us the events you're fixing to get involved and in your schedule and winning more souls
for Jesus and people who have been inviting you to their services. I got a lot of events
coming up but I really want to focus on one event that I coming up I got coming up right
now I'm starting my outreach is you understand it's the Jesus boys movement is Ricky Bradford
Ministries and I want to keep giving back to the streets the best way that I can and
I want to start this Mother's Day with my first annual take it back you know and we're
taking it back to streets and we're gonna start one step at a time and I want to start
with the mothers you know when we come from the mothers so I want to start with them and
I want to make make sure they feel comfortable this Mother's Day and want them to come close
closer to Christ this Mother's Day and just want to cater to them a little bit this Mother's
Day so I'm hosting an outreach where I met actually Deborah George and John Bowman and
I'm at right there on Josephine and Brewster in Fifth Ward we're going to do a big outreach
and I got Dr. Tina Parkman coming from Detroit Michigan she'll be down here this Saturday
we have sister Kaymore coming out to minister we have I believe Melody Rocks coming out
to minister we have Christ Clear coming out to minister we have Pastor E coming out to
minister and myself and Chris Godby will be out there ministering my boy Billy Dorsey
says he's gonna come out there and give us a hand and we got a bunch of folks from Lake
Wood Church and other surrounding local churches so just volunteering to put they two cents
in man three cents and whatever God put in their heart to do and we're going to give
back to the mother's Dr. Tina's bringing books she's going to pass out literature she's
going to pass out we're going to get flowers out hopefully we have a little food out there
and it's just like I said I want to make the moms in the hood feel real special and know
that the Lord does love them and people out here do care for you you know and just how
we get out.
Praise God it's exciting and I believe that we as a church and people who are listening
need to get involved because these are the last days and the brother is not forgetting
where he come from and I'm going to ask him just a few minutes if he could share a little
bit how he got saved and share a little bit of that so praise God.
Okay I always loved the Lord I can't lie to you but I never was obedient to the Lord
my mom and dad they raised me in church not like a PK or really really strong like that
we just made sure that it was routine that we go to church sometimes on Wednesday nights
Bible study sometimes on a lot all the times on Sundays you mean sometimes we get up early
enough on Sunday morning to go to Sunday school you know I mean but it wasn't like we didn't
go to church but sometimes when you rooted in church like that man and you don't even
get a chance to see what the bad side is like us as kids we want to just go dip into the
bad side so probably around 13 14 years old I dipped off into the bad side and when I
when the devil got his hands on me he had his hands on me and I was all in for Satan
I mean I did the worst stuff you could ever do I mean shot hurt people really really
bad past bad soul drugs manipulated women stole stuff raw people just everything you
could think about doing I did it for years and years and years and finally in New Year's
Eve in 2008 I was about to go do a show and open up for my homeboy J dog at a place called
Third Coast was was an after hour club and if you know after hours it's probably gonna
start to about 2 33 o'clock so my mom she was doing I guess they call it a watch service
I don't know whatever service is called on the night before on Christmas on New Year's
Eve they have a service at church and the people go to church from like nine o'clock
to 12 o'clock to the ball goes up in his new year so it kind of has been a safe environment
to make sure that you at least get to see the New Year's Day if God be it so I mean
I agreed to go to church with my mother I was like well I'll be out by 12 o'clock I
can still go do my show because I wasn't thinking the Holy Spirit was gonna move the way that
it did and you know me when I usually go into churches people can see these tattoos and
it seemed like they're preaching at me and if you're preaching at me you kind of run
me away because it seemed like it's all a gimmick and when I went to God's Grace Community
Church pastor Isaac Matthews I went there that night on New Year's Eve with my mother
and this man didn't look at me not one time but everything that he hit on he was trying
to hit on a lot of points because we were coming into a new year and people had a lot
of problems and he wanted everybody to be at ease so he's hitting a lot of points but
throughout all of these points it seemed like I was going through every last one of them
and it was amazing like you know I was looking at my mom a little bit I was like did you
set me up like you don't want to invite me to church church ain't never moved like this
in me before why is this man hitting on everything that I'm going through I thought my mom had
talked to the preacher before church or something when really she didn't that night I gave my
life to Christ and God put his hands on me that day took the devil's hands off put his
on me and he haven't took them off me since man I mean man they say he the potter and
I mean that he is the potter he's molding me he's molding me every day flesh falls off
more and more and I just give him all the glory for it you know he's real it's not fake
is real the Jesus you're talking about is real is and it's alive within your soul and
that's reason why you sharing with the young people and and and if you out there listening
consider Jesus Jesus is the answer there's only one way to heaven and that's his name
is Jesus these are the last days and if you out there attempting to commit suicide or
doing making the wrong mistakes just like brother Ricky Brafford said he looked to Jesus
and God touched his heart and reached down and changed him put his sin as far as the
east is from the west no matter what your past no what crime you committed he's able
to set you free accept him and say Jesus come in my heart forgive me of all my sins
become the Lord of my life cleans me of my sin in Jesus name I'm sorry for all my wrong
and I ask you Jesus come in my heart and be the Lord of my life and if you said that prayer
please call us and we'll pray for you and if you're not involved in the church we invite
you to the church we attend to what's that church brother Lakewood church yes you come
on down you don't have to come to ours but you can go to any big kid under a church
where they could teach you that there's power in that name power in the blood of Jesus he
will put your sins far as the east from the west and I don't care if you got tattoos
pink hair or earrings in your nose or whatever come on down come on down you won the grand
prize Jesus say man say Jesus Jesus he's the one who could bring you and wash you with
a precious blood of the Lamb hallelujah and if you don't have hair come on I don't care
if your bald head it's skinny fat praise God we accept you there I don't care brother because
in where we go they accept you with our open arms and they don't beat you they feed you
and tell you the love of God that the God loves you and don't forget that we'll be listening
to the song brother is going to sing today today right now and I hope you enjoy it and
you get back with us next week and God bless you looking forward to hear from you glory
be to God
the last man standing so what you call it I call it dedication motivation
the last man standing so what you call it the last man standing so what you call it
the last man standing so what you call it the last man standing so what you call it
the last man standing so what you call it the last man standing so what you call it
You gon' let them win, you gon' let them down
Uh-uh, this time I got a plan
I'm prayin' y'all, you're my problem, yo
I tell em' gig go, I tell em' gig rocks
I tell em' V to C, Julie run out of socks
I tell em' bird tread, I tell em' shoot, go shoot
I tell em' adios, some niggas, come on, rhyme or nose
I shoot, give a deuce a shoot
I tell em' leave me alone, leave me alone
I tell em' Satan, I don't mean him, I'm up in my zone
I tell em' God is awesome, and then I'm going home
I tell em' phone wreck, that's what's getting strong
So I am far away, just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Just in phone wreck
Pick me up, pick me up, pick me up
Here we go again, the enemies approach
I'm thinkin' I'ma let them win, you gon' let them down
Uh-uh, this time I got a plan
I'm prayin' y'all, you're my problem, yo
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Praise God, Gloria, Dios
This is evangelist Michael Fernandez
If you want to be a part of our ministry
And the adventures, the things we're doing
Great things for God to bring the good news
If you want to be a part of this ministry
Go to my website and speak to you
In the name of Jesus Christ, God bless you
