Craig Mack Surfaces With The Same Shape-Up & Kicks A Impeccable Freestyle @ Walterboro, SC Church

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respond to a SirBiatch comment months later and obsess over him, instead of the actual topic, brehs :bryan: Then santana when asked why.

Be gone, attention whore. :umad:
just seeing this comment.

you and your moma can eat a dikk
 

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Brehs...from wiki "Mack then disappeared in the hip-hop industry until in 2012 a video was leaked on YouTube, saying he had joined a cult, surprising family members and fans. As of 2012, Mack resides in the Overcomer Ministry located in Walterboro, South Carolina" :merchant:

"He moved to the South in the 1950s, saying that God had told him to move there because it would be "the safest place for Christians in the end time."

Brehs...

"Stair purchased a motel in Walterboro, South Carolina in 1978, and encouraged followers to move to the community, sell all their possessions, take a vow of poverty, and donate all that they owned to Overcomer Ministry...In 2002, Stair, then aged 69, was arrested in Walterboro on two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree"
Brehs... :why:

I know he had a pretty generic flow, but nobody deserves joining a cult :to:
 

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Colleton County preacher Ralph Stair arrested for sex assault, other charges, deputies say

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — A Colleton County pastor has been arrested on multiple charges, including three counts of 1st degree criminal sexual conduct, and one count of 3rd degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Ralph G. Stair, 84, the leader of Colleton County-based Overcomer Ministry, is in jail at the Colleton County Detention Center after his arrest shortly before 8 a.m. Monday, according to CCSO spokesman, Lt. Tyger Benton.


Deputies arrested Stair after serving warrants on eight charges, which are as follows:

  • 3 counts - 1st degree Criminal Sexual Conduct (CSC)
  • 1 count - Assault with intent to commit 1st degree criminal sexual conduct
  • 1 count – 3rd degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor
  • 1 count - Kidnapping
  • 1 count - 1st degree burglary
  • 1 count – 2nd degree assault
Lt. Benton says Stair was arrested as part of an ongoing investigation, but could not confirm other details about the specifics of Stair's arrest at the time of this report.

Benton says the Colleton County Sheriff's Office is being assisted in its investigation by SLED, the FBI and the Dept. of Homeland Security.

ABC News 4 first reached out to the Colleton County Sheriff's Office in October about sexual misconduct allegations against Stair, following tips from viewers about the alleged incidents, some of which are documented on videos of Stair's worship services.

A background check provided by SLED shows Stair in May 2002 was arrested and charged with two counts each of 2nd degree criminal sexual conduct, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and breach of trust.

Stair was not convicted of the criminal sexual conduct or breach of trust charges, and the two aggravated assault charges were reduced to simple assault. Stair was convicted and sentenced to time served on the assault charges.

Court records show Stair also was in August 2002 charged with illegally moving dead bodies and burying them on his property without notifying authorities, but that case later was dropped.

Stair is an end times evangelist, prophesying the imminent return of Jesus Christ. He founded and leads Overcomer Ministry, which is located in the Canadys community near the Colleton-Dorchester county line.

Stair's most devout followers live with him in a commune setting at the Overcomer Ministry property, according to the church's website, "with common baths and common eating, all seeking to live together in love for God and each other."

"We do not go anywhere as we need not do so. We work the farm and have our school and with the simple life; we need very little that the world offers," the Overcomer Ministry website says. "We go nowhere, no shopping, or trips to see what have you. Your life will be here on the farm until Jesus comes."

The ministry's brochure says that followers who come to live on the property relinquish their worldly possessions and money "to the Lord," and must subject themselves to Stair's authority and the "biblical" rules he has established for the community, including allocation of supplies.

Some of the rules include:

  • The man of God (Brother Stair) shall have sole discretion to judge the legitimacy of need and to direct distribution to satisfy the need.
  • A curfew is imposed from the hours of 10:00 P.M. until 4:00 A.M.
  • Residents will restrict themselves to their dwellings during the hours of curfew unless special permission is granted by the man of God (Brother Stair).
  • The residents ... acknowledge the right of the man of God to discipline and direct and correct residents who exhibit unbiblical behavior.
  • The residents recognize the practice of shunning as necessary in correcting the unrepentant and insubordinate.
  • The residents recognize expulsion from the community as a sanction of last resort for the rebelliously unrepentant.
Stair does not require membership in the community to attend worship services.

Stair also broadcasts sermons over the radio, and shares videos of the services on the internet.

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That cac is to close. back the fukk up.

Who knows what they did playing around with demonic Diddy.
 

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Long buuuuuut really interesting read. Thin line between faith and mental issues



Craig Mack Was Bad Boy’s First Star. What Led Him to a Doomsday Community?

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A few months before his death, Craig Mack was finally ready to talk.

On the outskirts of Walterboro, South Carolina, where he had been living since 2007, the former rapper made himself comfortable in an armchair inside a well-lit hotel room. Prepping for his first interview in years, he stashed some Vaseline behind a vase, took sips of cranberry juice, and absent-mindedly fiddled with a gold-handled cane.

Mack was sick, although he did his best to hide it. A chunky knit sweater added bulk to his diminishing frame. An ornate cane that might’ve been a distinguished prop for a rapper in the Nineties was used as a crutch. While Mack was still able to command a room, rattling off stories and cracking jokes, deep wrinkles had set in, making him look far older than his 47 years. The interview, with a documentary crew he had invited to capture his story in his own words, would be his last.

“It’s hard to watch,” his daughter Amanda tells Rolling Stone of viewing the footage. “I could tell something was very wrong.”

This subdued Mack was far from the loud and rambunctious 24-year-old who radiated confidence in the summer of 1994. Back then, “Flava in Ya Ear,” Mack’s first and biggest hit, dominated New York City’s airwaves, clubs, and block parties. The single’s smash success was propelled by a monster-size remix featuring the Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, and Rampage. Mack, with his neatly cropped Afro and signature “Ha!” ad-lib, was a defining voice of hip-hop in the 1990s and helped pave the way for the immediate success of Bad Boy Records and its founder, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Despite being one of the label’s first stars, Mack’s contribution is often glossed over in favor of labelmate Biggie Smalls. He was the first artist of many who limped away from Combs demoralized, destitute, and feeling duped. Some left the music industry altogether. A few, like Shyne, Loon, and Mase, turned to politics or religion. For Mack, his departure from Bad Boy was the first in a series of painful events that would lead him on a perplexing path. Not long after, he shunned the “wickedness” of his past and devoted his life to a fire-and-brimstone, self-proclaimed “last-day prophet” who believed barcodes bore the mark of the beast and warned about an imminent third world war. Mack died in March 2018 — the words “Praise the Lord!” are inscribed on his headstone.
 

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This summer marks the 30th anniversary of “Flava in Ya Ear,” a milestone that Mack’s family, loved ones, and former collaborators will commemorate without him. Speaking with Rolling Stone, they are opening up for the first time about Mack and his life — sharing pieces of the story that Mack was eager to tell before his death. “His legacy is the most important thing I want to get across,” Amanda, 28, says. “From the beginning of his life, he was doing what he loved: music.”

But they also have questions that may never be fully answered about what compelled Mack to flee New York with his two young children, bringing them to what family members, former members, and experts have called an extremist doomsday cult. “That transition was just so abrupt,” Amanda says. “Something had to have happened.”

Craig Mack Talks Sacrifice in Final Interview

IN LATE 1993, a group of men gathered in the basement of Combs’ newly purchased Scarsdale, New York, mansion for a pivotal listening session. Uptown Records had fired the 23-year-old A&R executive a few months before, and Combs was determined to claw his way back to the top.

Backed by a reported $10 million from new parent label Arista Records, Combs needed certifiable hits for Bad Boy. He brought in Mack and the rapper’s team to review potential sounds for Mack’s debut album, Project Funk Da World. As they shuffled through beats from the in-demand producer Easy Mo Bee, the now iconic two-note melody that would anchor “Flava” began to play, reverberating through the speakers. The room erupted.

“Everybody was going crazy. We were like, ‘Oh, my God!’” says Jean Nelson, Mack’s first co-manager and early hype man. They knew the beat was a pathway to a hit. But on the hourlong ride back to Long Island, where he lived, Mack gruffly told Nelson and his crew, “I didn’t like that beat, really.”

Nelson laughs thinking back on that moment. Going from grade-school friends with Mack in Brentwood, New York, to touring the world together, Nelson was more than familiar with Mack’s quirks. “Craig’s always the guy if everybody goes right, he’s gonna go left,” he explains. “It’s one of the things that I love him for, but it’s one of the things that also bothered me, because it got in the way of business and his well-being.”

Mack relented, and Easy Mo Bee’s beat, combined with the rapper’s skittering, off-kilter flow, made “Flava in Ya Ear” an irresistible “earworm,” says Tracy Cloherty, radio station Hot 97’s music director at the time. “From the minute the beat dropped, it was danceable.” Hot 97 put the song into power rotation. The Source featured a verse in its massively influential Hip-Hop Quotables section. The song stayed a then-record 14 weeks at the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs and went certified-platinum after four months. The remix and accompanying music video only furthered Mack’s popularity — Rolling Stone put it on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time — coupled with additional hits “Get Down” and “Making Moves With Puff.”

In those early years, “[Mack] absolutely was the gas in the tank” for Combs and Bad Boy, former Arista senior vice president Lionel Ridenour tells Rolling Stone.
 
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