Singer Lauryn Hill sold millions of albums in the 1990s and won a Grammy. But the rapper and world class singer now seems more concerned with preaching than performing.
During a scheduled Christmas performance at the Vatican Hill blasted the Catholic Church reports the Anti-Music Network.
Reading a prepared statement Hill told the audience, “I’m not here to celebrate, like you, the birth of Christ, but to ask you why you are not in mourning for his death in this place.” She added “Holy God has witnessed the corruption of your leadership of the exploitation and abuses which are the minimum that can be said for the clergy.”
Hill then did a protest song, rather than the selection that was scheduled.
So what prompted the rapper to rap the church?
It seems Hill, like so many other celebrities, is under the spell of a charismatic leader.
She follows someone called “Brother Anthony” and the two are “inseparable” according to Rolling Stone.
The rapper reportedly often begins statements with “Brother Anthony says…”
“I met someone who has an understanding of the bible like no one else I ever met in my life. I just sat at [his] feet and ingested pure scripture for about a year,” Hill told MTV.
“It was like she was being brainwashed by this man, believing everything he was saying and tellin’ her what to do. I think he’s just looking at a cash cow,” observed a former Hill friend.
Like many people that have been recruited by groups called “cults” Lauryn Hill met Anthony at a vulnerable time in her life, after a series of personal and professional setbacks.
It seems likely that the speech Hill read at the Vatican was prepared under the influence of and/or scripted by the singer’s mentor. And rather than hearing from Hill the Vatican audience may have heard what “Brother Anthony says…”
The singer’s recent performance in Rome is unlikely to be heard by the Italian public on a coming radio broadcast and will probably be edited out.
No Grammy for this one Ms. Hill.
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