Stop The Funeral CD

MUSIC

CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. A-M ~ The Ambassador

2. Get With Us - (featuring Sean Simmonds) ~ The Ambassador

3. Mind Made Up ~ The Ambassador

4. Pop Pop Pop ~ The Ambassador

5. Up Down ~ The Ambassador

6. Favor - (featuring Canton Jones) ~ The Ambassador

7. Bring You Out - (featuring Melissa T) ~ The Ambassador

8. Talk This Way ~ The Ambassador

9. Crumbs - (featuring Jessica Reedy) ~ The Ambassador

10. Trust In You - (featuring Mali Music) ~ The Ambassador

11. Nothing Like Us ~ The Ambassador

12. Your Love - (featuring KJ-52/Michelle Bonilla) ~ The Ambassador

13. Put It Down ~ The Ambassador

14. Reunion Cypha, The - (featuring God's Servant/J.A.Z./C-Lite/DJ Wade-O/Cruz Cordero/Shai Linne) ~ The Ambassador

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Audio Mixer: David Garcia.
	On his fourth solo album, the Ambassador, aka William Branch, continues to rap on behalf of his Christian beliefs. Branch may possess a Masters degree in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, but as a rapper, he is concerned with spreading the message through the usual patter and doggerel, employing a vernacular speech peppered with contemporary references. He is not above clich?, noting, for instance, in the lead-off track, "A-M," that Jesus Christ is "more than the best thing since sliced bread." Sports provide useful touchstones, as when, in "Mind Made Up," the Resurrection is compared to heavyweight boxer Mohammad Ali's "rope-a-dope" strategy in his 1974 comeback fight against George Foreman and when, in "Pop Pop Pop," the Lord is seen as an unbeatable basketball player: "Nobody can block his free throw." Film and television also come up, whether Branch is mentioning Forrest Gump or Crash, or, in "Favor," noting "We were desperate like them housewives" before God's favor was obtained. And miracles are updated to contemporary needs in the same song: "He didn't even have TV, now he has cable." Branch sets his raps to familiar hip-hop beats and employs sung choruses like his secular peers, who also come in for comment, if not by name. "Somebody said it's a hard knock life," Branch says in "Trust in You," meaning Jay-Z (who was in turn quoting the orphans in the musical Annie), "but I got a hard knock Christ." Some of the faithful may find such pop culture associations irreverent, but the Ambassador is trying to negotiate with a new, young audience in Stop the Funeral, and one of Christianity's qualities has always been its remarkable adaptability across cultures, which believers cite as a mark of the universality of its message of redemption. ~ William Ruhlmann
Musical Guests
	Sean Simmonds
	Canton Jones
	Melissa T
	Jessica Reedy
	Damon Albarn & Mali Music
	Ryan Stevenson
	KJ-52
	Michelle Bonilla
	God's Servant
	J.A.Z.
	C-Lite
	DJ Wade-O
	Cruz Cordero
	Shai Linne

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/12/2011
	Original Release Date : 2011
	Catalog ID : XST 001
	Label : Xist Records
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00044003139220

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Stop The Funeral (2011)

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