I've gotten a little discouraged at times when I'd bring something to the choir, and they'd say, 'Oh no, James. That s as opposed to a traditional or contemporary artist. The album is available on May 8, 2001. We try to give our audience different perspectives on what people feel Gospel is. My music is not composed of fairy tales.
People can relate to the lyrics because they have been through some of the same things.
For example, people were feeling the secular rap artist Tupac Shakur , because he wrote about reality and everyday life. So I called and emailed the producer because there was this one singer on it that was blazin'. It s sort of a natural thing at this point. Well, I m going in studio now, working on songs, because we re aiming for a summer 2001 release. The goal is to take each project in the series to a different city, and audition and use singers from that town, along with my praise team, to record.