“Save Me” – Christawn feat. Micah Stampley

“Save Me”
Christawn feat. Micah Stampley
From the forthcoming CD Life Story
Abundant Harvest Entertainment/Universal Music Christian Group
(release date: May 18, 2010)

Guitars snarl and growl like demons unleashed during the introduction of Christawn’s autobiographical single, “Save Me,” a power rock piece about dumping the thug life of chasing “cars, cribs, cash” once and for all.

Micah Stampley shouts and cries out on the catchy chorus like a preacher calling off the demons as Christawn raps how his street life went from darkness to light one day in Philadelphia in 2003. In a press release, Christawn relates:

“I had a bundle of crack I had stashed in this brick wall.” He and a buddy were leaving the area when the cops caught them. “They threw us up against the car, took our money and put us in the back of the squad car and I’m thinking this is it,” he says. One of the cops went searching for the crack. “You could actually see where the bag was hanging out of the wall,” he explains. “He was putting his hand in holes and feeling around the wall. I just called on the Lord and said, ‘God, if you save me from going to jail, I will leave this life for good.’ The cop came back to the car and I’m thinking the worst. He says, ‘Get out of the car; this is your lucky day. Get out of here.’”

After the cops left, Christawn returned to the wall and pulled the stash. “I gave it to Buck. He owned Morse Street at the time. I said, ‘Man, this is it. I’m leaving.’ He tried to talk me out of leaving, but I refused to listen. He had some harsh words for me and I left. Two weeks later, Buck gets killed and two years later, the whole block was raided. They were all Bloods and now they are all facing 25 to life. So I know the Lord saved me for a reason.”

When he was set free from the police, Christawn relates on “Save Me,” “I learned that in the midst of my darkest hour, you heard my heart sorrowfully saying, ‘save me’.”

Today, Christawn is a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in South Jersey, and with the attention “Save Me” is getting on the radio, his Christian hip hop career is taking off, inspiring others with his story.