Erv The Prophet a.k.a X.O. meaning Christ Life
I started rapping around the age of 12 but i had the wrong focus about what I was doing. Any way i was raised in church all of my life but the experince never did me any good cause I over the years I just got better at playing church giving my life to christ again and again but still going out and doing the same thing. I always thought that if i just went to church on the important holidays like new years, christmas, and easter and did some good deeds i would be alright.
I never sold drugs but I’ve been around them all of my life I could have but everybody was doing it around me so I never picked it up but there was a time when I first moved out on my own where my apartment was a drug house my roomates sold all kinds of drugs in and out of my house and I can never forget the sleep less nights having to sleep with a gun under my pilow just to feel safe in my own home. I have never been a the gansta gansta type but for some reason thats the crowd I was always around and it almost got me killed.
I was 17 yrs old a senior in high school and me and my friends got in a club fight yeah we won the fight but little did we know the war was not over. Well the same guys that we fought came back to get revenge on us but this time there was no fight they wanted to shoot. My truck was shot at 5 times by a young man and one of the bullets came through the back passenger side window and the glass shifted the bullet to the front of my truck. By me being a large male I sit with a lil lean in my seat when forensics came to look at my truck they explained that the bullet missed hitting me in my head by 1 inch.
Back then i looked at that as luck but now i know it was only Gods grace and mercy and it’s good to know he has purpose in my life. Thats not it, I still didn’t learn, i still didn’t get my life all the way right, I still wanted to run women and get that pimp player tittle before it wasn’t too long before my dirt with women caught up with me and my heart was broken. I never knew how much hurt I was putting others through untill my day came. It was all one great big learning experince for me and it brought me closer to christ and now what was my weakness is now testimony and ministry and I thank god for that.
So now here we are today strong in ministry striving to be perfect as Jesus was. I am currently a part of several ministry teams such as the Missionary Souljahz, Renaissance Movement, and Holy Jamz. Through this, I have met the wonderful people of God that have helped me along my journey towards Christ like perfection. I mainly minister through gospel rap music but also through percussion (drums) in which I am very rusty. I am now exploring the area of gospel comedy since I seem to have a natural ability to make people laugh through joke and story telling. It has been heavy on my heart to do and the people connected to me have been encouraging me to go for it. I attend Samuel Chapel located in Moyock, North Carolina where the pastor is Bishop Little Joe Powell Jr., who is a great man of God. I’ve been under his leadership and teaching for the past 13 years which was originally under his father Elder Little Joe Powell Sr. who was also my God Father.
My life story still continues on as I am walking with the Lord and the people he’s placed in my life. I can’t tell everything here but those were some of the main events in my life that got me to where I am in Christ today. If you desire to hear more about how Christ has changed and molded me into who he has called me to be, hit me up via email at
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God Bless
