{"id":437191,"date":"2017-11-14T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/14\/christians-not-ready-to-listen-to-urban-gospel-ghone-dj\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:30:30","slug":"christians-not-ready-to-listen-to-urban-gospel-ghone-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/14\/christians-not-ready-to-listen-to-urban-gospel-ghone-dj\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians not ready to listen to Urban Gospel \u2013 GHOne DJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 14 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-11-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20522063.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Smoke\" title=\"Jay Smoke\" width=\"295\" height=\"291\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Jay Smoke<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057539937222\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057539937222\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510684230_325_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Radio DJ and television personality, Jay Smoke (real name Justin Agyei Mensah), one of the main promoters of urban gospel in Ghana, says Christians were not ready to give a listening ear to the genre at the early stages.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban or contemporary gospel is a modern form of Christian music that expresses either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, it follows the trends in secular urban contemporary music.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBut its introduction onto the Ghanaian music scene was hit with some resistance as the people were not familiar with the genre.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Hitz FM\u2019s Franky 5 on This Is Gospel, Jay Smoke revealed that radio and television stations were reluctant to play urban gospel when it was introduced into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere weren\u2019t many avenues for us to push whatever it is that we had. Radio stations were not playing it, Christians were not ready for stuff like that, and for me it was a big challenge because there was no avenue at all for me [to] promote it. Here I was, I had tons and tons of Christian hip-hop music and the society doesn\u2019t understand it, they don\u2019t want to accept it, so for me, it limited how much I could push the music,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is pitched primarily to African-American young adults.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJay Smoke, however, admitted even though urban gospel has made major strides to enter into mainstream music, some Ghanaians are still yet to accept rap as part of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a community where 65% to 70% are Christians but we still tend to box the music we listen to. We still think [not to disrespect anybody] the Ohemaa Mercy, the Cecilia Marfos; they are the gospels like Sarkodie can\u2019t do gospel songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jay Smoke is the owner of RepJesus.com a website created for the promotion of urban gospel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 14 November 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-11-14 Jay Smoke Radio DJ and television personality, Jay Smoke (real name Justin Agyei Mensah), one of the main promoters of urban gospel in Ghana, says Christians were not ready to give a listening ear to the genre at the early stages. 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