TBGB Pick of the Week: December 6, 2010

“Saved Woman”
Malcolm Little
U.G.N. Records (2010)
http://www.ugnrecordsllc.com/

Author Bernard Malamud wrote that we have two lives: the life we learn from and the life we live after we’ve learned.

Malcolm (Little) Garner has led two lives. His first was as a ward of the state and a member of Chicago’s notorious Vice Lords gang, where he battled addictions and served time for petty crimes. Delivered from his addictions in 1993, Little preached his first sermon eleven years later. Soon after, he was encouraged to dedicate his rap talents, honed as a member of Kritical Kondition, to the Lord. He wrote his first gospel rap album in the mid-2000s and founded U.G.N. Records in 2006.

Now he’s looking for a “saved woman,” one who is “spiritual minded” and someone “I can trust…not tripping on cars, not tripping on clothes…I can’t wait for the day that I can propose.”

If Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” is the modern anthem for single women, Malcolm Little has a similar message for single church women: “She ain’t gotta be a holy roller or perfect, she’s just gotta be worth it.”