Sean Slaughter

SS: I think a testimony is a testimony. Now hip-hop heads might look at me as being more "real" but I don't see it that way. I believe our experiences allow us to minister more effectively to a certain type of people. I hated church but I grew up in church my whole life. I loved street life and what I thought it could offer. So, because of my testimony I can speak to church kids, street kids or the mixture of both. My testimony has opened a lot of doors for our ministry so our troubles have turned into triumph.

GC: A prominent preacher says there are men and women God has selected and set apart to minister to this hip hop generation—the folks who are often ignored in traditional ministry and written off as useless. Is Sean Slaughter a Sanctified Thug™ ?

SS: Hip-Hop isn't all thugs. Matter fact, most hip hop heads are not thugs. Most are regular people trying to get by, trying to live a good life and have fun. The media have taken a small sect of the hip-hop culture and magnified it so we think this is what hip hop is all about. So I understand where the preacher is coming from, but no, I'm not a thug. I'm a souljah.

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