“God Loves the Hood” – F1 Diamond

“God Loves the Hood”
F1 Diamond feat. B. Jackson
From the CD Pastor of the Traphouse
www.f1diamond.com

Memphis-based Christian hip hop artist F1 Diamond, dubbed the “Pastor of the Traphouse,” offers an alternative portrait of the hood, one where people love God and not everyone is a player or a thug, as the media would have us believe. Plus, he muses: “If the last should be first/That means the suburbs are after us.”

At the same time, it doesn’t mean everyone in the hood is perfect, “so we lean on the solid rock.” F1 Diamond’s closing question: “if God loves the hood, do you love him back?” All this to a smoothly electronic backdrop with B. Jackson autotuning in between raps.

F1 Diamond, born Radontae Ashford in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior after hearing a Donnie McClurkin song while en route with his mother to Memphis, Tennessee, their newly adopted home. He asked his mother to stop on the side of Interstate 57 near Cairo, IL and he professed his eternal commitment right then and there.