Recap of Canton Jones CD Listening Party “Kingdom Business”

By Richard Cox

On January 25, 2008, Arrow recording artist, Canton Jones held his official listening party for his project Kingdom Business in Washington, DC. It was held at the Youth Impact Center of Greater Mount Calvary Church. The co-pastors are Bishop Alfred Owens and Evangelist Susie Owens.

About 150 excited and energetic young people gathered for a listening party for Canton Jones. The Stellar Award-winning radio station WPGC-AM Heaven 1580 sponsored the event. Radio personality Jeffrey Taylor opened with prayer and introduced Canton Jones.

When Jones took the stage the crowd went wild. He lifted his voice and declared “Get ready to take over … give me that soldier’s face … there’s going to be a shift in this place … where are my warrior praisers?” Jones’s comments energized the crowd even more. It took a little time to calm down the audience.
Jones explained the program for the listening party, and told the crowd he was going to play samples tracks from his new project Kingdom Business. He explained the message behind the songs, conducted a Q&A to interact with the audience and ended the party with singing music from his previous projects.

Canton Jones shared the inspiration for the title Kingdom Business, which is the story of 12-year old Jesus telling his mother Mary that he was handling his Father’s business. Jones continued to say that we as Christians need to handle our Kingdom business outside of the four walls of the church and go in our streets, schools, jails, etc.

In Living Clean was the first songJones talked about how this song was written for riders. He explained it was for riders who like to drive clean cars. It was for the type of people in the church who live to ride and put rims on their cars. Everyone just laughed while listening to Jones give funny examples about his observation of different saints who love their cars.

The next song The Professional Jones told us was written to remind us that we were created to praise God. He said “your first profession is to praise.” Jones gave us funny examples about the different type of praisers. He made the point to not be a weird praiser because you could cause someone to run away from the church. Jones stressed about keeping it real. He pointed out how many of his songs he uses “I’m” so when you sing the song it makes the song personal to you. When the track started playing Jones called different young people to come up show off their crumpin moves. There were a couple of young men who came up to showcase their dancing talents. The audience cheered on the dancers.