Maverick City Music Faces Backlash for Collab on GloRilla’s New Album 'Glorious'
- Michael Foust Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
- Updated Oct 15, 2024
Many fans of Maverick City Music are expressing disappointment after the Christian worship group collaborated with rapper GloRilla on an album that features f-bombs, pornographic language and is rated E for “explicit.” Maverick City Music is featured on GloRilla’s new album Glorious as part of a collaboration with her, Kirk Franklin, Chandler Moore, and Kierra Sheard for a praise song, Rain Down on Me. Although that single contains nothing objectionable, it is the only song on the 15-track album without an “explicit” rating.
The GloRilla song Don’t Deserve, for example, contains 11 f-words and more than 70 instances of coarse language. Another track, How I Look with Megan Thee Stallion, includes 15 examples of the B-word. The track Let Her Cook describes sexual acts in explicit detail.
Maverick City Music has won six Dove Awards, including one this year for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year (God Problems). It also won five Grammys.
It collaborated with Elevation Worship for the popular song Jireh.
“These ‘Christian’ gospel artists need to stop compromising its PLENTY of ways to reach souls. Kirk Franklin, Kierra Sheard & Maverick City Music being on Glorilla album is wild,” one person wrote. “God, come get us.”
these “Christian” gospel artist need to stop compromising. it’s PLENTY of ways to reach souls. Kirk Franklin, Kierra Sheard & Maverick City Music being on Glorilla album is wild. God come get us 😭
— Laurencia ✨🦋 (@thisislaurencia) October 9, 2024
“Maverick City is featured on a song with Glorilla????” another person wrote. “What an embarrassment for the Christian music industry. Come quickly, Lord.”
“The album cover is an indecent photo of her wearing a bra and pants in the background. In that album is Sexy Red too -- these are depraved musicians whose music contains profanity and vulgarity and supports an anti-Christian culture,” still another person wrote.
Maverick City Music was featured on GloRilla’s worldly album. The album cover is an indecent photo of her wearing a bra and pants in the background. In that album is Sexy Red too - these are depraved musicians whose music contains profanity, and vulgarity and supports an…
— Solomon Buchi (@Solomon_Buchi) October 13, 2024
Other fans, though, defended Maverick City.
“I wonder what you would have done when you found out that Jesus let a prostitute into his circle,” one fan wrote.
“Objectively, if Maverick City stayed true to their virtues and bring more people over from collabing with Glorilla I don’t see the issue,” another person wrote. “Joseph was under the Pharaoh (pagan) and still served God and brought people over.”
Objectively if Maverick City stayed true to their virtues and bring more people over from collabing with Glorilla i don’t see the issue. Joseph was under the Pharaoh(pagan) and still served God and brought people over. https://t.co/TH8AmqW56C
— MannVs___ (@MannVs_____) October 14, 2024
According to Church Leaders, GloRilla sings on Rain Down on Me: “I know I’m a sinner, Lord / and I know I might sin again / so thank You for not givin’ up / and still givin’ me the strength to win / protect me from the evil / that I can’t see with my eyes and if it’s any blessing-blockers ’round me / help me cut them ties. In Jesus’ name.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
