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Recap of Canton Jones CD Listening Party “Kingdom Business”

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The song Kool , Jones told us Tye Tribbett sings with him. It’s a simple song where Jones shouts the question “Anybody want to praise today?” And immediately the crowd jumped from their seats and started swinging their fist in the air saying “Oh oh Oh oh. “ Jones would pause for a moment and then jump back into the song with question “Anybody want to praise today?” The praise energy was high in the place.

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On the title track Kingdom Business Jones went around the audience asking the youth what kind of businesses they would like to own. Some of them said “beauty shop, barbershop, school superintendent, architect , etc. “ Jones said “this song was about taking the Gospel to the street and handle your business. “

Jones called different young guys from the audience on the song 24s What You Want. He had the guys to pretend they were driving different style of cars and asked them what kind of rims they had on their cars. As the track played the guys pretending they were cruising in their cars.

Pimp Hard is a song where Jones describes the story about a guy who cheated on his girlfriend but didn’t know that she was cheating on him. The boyfriend gets kills by the girlfriend’s lover that is a lesbian. He told us about some of the other alternate endings situations he considered for song.

Jones told us that Nobody Cared was written as a song of encouragement. It is such a powerful track. The chorus says, “Jesus you cared for me when nobody cared you loved me when nobody cared at all.” This song really ministers to your soul. This song touched the hearts of the crowd to stand and wave their hands while the track played.

My Day, Jones told us he wrote this song to proclaim a positive confession each day. He said “you got to stay positive and get away from negative people that try to kill your dreams and aspirations in life.” The chorus says “my day, today is going be a good day.”

Jones explained the song Ringtone , deals with the way we change up with puttingdifferent ringtones on our cell phones. He start shouting “taking over for the kingdom” and the audience recited “put that on your ringtone.” Jones would go back an forth with the audience with different lines. Everyone was on their feet joining in on the line “put that on your ringtone.”



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