The Bryce Crawford Podcast

The Tekashi 6ix9ine Interview (EP 176)

40 min
Jan 19, 20263 months ago
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Summary

Host Bryce Crawford interviews Tekashi 6ix9ine (Daniel Hernandez) about his faith journey, upcoming prison sentence, and spiritual transformation. The conversation centers on Christianity, redemption, and the tension between his public persona and personal beliefs as he prepares to return to prison in seven days.

Insights
  • High-profile figures in entertainment are increasingly discussing faith and spiritual transformation as a counternarrative to their public personas
  • The concept of grace and forgiveness is being reframed in contemporary discourse as a practical tool for personal accountability rather than just religious doctrine
  • Authenticity and vulnerability about personal struggles resonate more with audiences than curated success narratives, particularly among younger demographics
  • Incarceration is being positioned as a spiritual opportunity rather than purely punitive, reflecting evolving perspectives on redemption in popular culture
  • The tension between maintaining financial security and spiritual commitment represents a core conflict for content creators and public figures navigating faith
Trends
Faith-based content gaining mainstream traction in entertainment and podcast spacesRedemption narratives becoming central to personal branding for controversial public figuresSpiritual accountability and honest self-assessment replacing traditional apology formatsPrison experiences being reframed as mission fields or spiritual growth opportunities in Christian discourseYoung adult audiences seeking mentorship and spiritual guidance from unconventional sourcesIntersection of hip-hop culture and evangelical Christianity expanding into mainstream conversationFinancial anxiety as barrier to spiritual commitment emerging as relatable theme for creatorsAuthenticity and transparency valued over image management in audience relationships
Topics
Christian Faith and RedemptionPersonal Accountability and Spiritual TransformationPrison System and IncarcerationFinancial Security vs. Spiritual CommitmentGrace and Forgiveness TheologyPublic Persona vs. Private IdentityHip-Hop Culture and ReligionMental Health and DepressionFamily Relationships and ResponsibilityFederal Sentencing and CooperationContent Creation and PurposeAuthenticity in Public LifeEvangelical ChristianityMoral Hypocrisy in Religious CommunitiesEnd Times Prophecy
Companies
Walmart
Mentioned as location where strangers approach Tekashi to discuss his spiritual journey
Instagram
Referenced as social media platform where users encounter religious content and messaging
TikTok
Referenced as social media platform where users encounter religious content and messaging
People
Bryce Crawford
Podcast host conducting interview with focus on faith and spiritual accountability
Daniel Hernandez (Tekashi 6ix9ine)
Guest discussing his faith journey, upcoming incarceration, and spiritual transformation
Diddy
Mentioned as fellow inmate who prayed with Tekashi during previous incarceration
Aiden
Content creator mentioned as someone Tekashi cancelled plans with to prioritize this interview
Steve Will Do It
Content creator mentioned in context of Tekashi's streaming and collaboration schedule
Jake Paul
Referenced in context of Tekashi's recent public interactions and collaborations
Lil Tony
Drill rapper from Atlanta cited as example of radical Christian transformation in prison
George Mueller
Historical Christian figure quoted regarding contentment and financial stewardship
David
Biblical figure referenced regarding fear of God and friendship with the Lord
Paul
Biblical figure referenced regarding mixing worldly and spiritual commitments
Quotes
"I don't think I'm going to heaven. I think I failed God. I think I failed the church."
Tekashi 6ix9ineOpening
"Jesus uses his strongest, his most broken people to show the world that he can use them as an instrument to bring people to his church."
Tekashi 6ix9ineMid-interview
"I'm fucked up because I'm living in a thing where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and God is saying, what are you going to get enough?"
Tekashi 6ix9ineLate-interview
"If you're not content with the amount of money you have in your bank account, you would never be content with double the amount of money in your bank account."
Bryce CrawfordMid-interview
"God knowing every nasty thing Danny has done, everything, his love on you and says let my love be poured out for you because that's what the cross was."
Bryce CrawfordLate-interview
Full Transcript
I don't think I'm going to heaven. I think I failed God. I think I failed the church. I'm fucked up because I'm living in a thing where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and more and God is saying, what are you going to get enough? What do you want? I don't know. What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Breistropper Podcast. I'm Breist and today I got a special guest for this today. We got Tikashi 6.9. Not the best. Best of the best. I've never seen teeth like yours before. We had some great teeth. Yeah, just go to Columbia and you see a thousand pasties. Are they? So how long have you had those teeth? I think I renewed it in like 2022. Wow. It was very clean and why? I like it. Thank you. I think it's very important. Do you use a tongue scraper? You know about that? I know it's so random. A tongue scraper? Yeah, have you ever heard about that? Dude, I started, I'm not even kidding. I started tongue scraping. It like changed my life. I'm satisfied with the toothbrush. Oh god. Amen. Well, thanks for coming on. I appreciate you giving us some time. Yeah. You know, before we get into questions and stuff like that. Back when I was in middle school, I didn't grow up on rap. I grew up on country. I'm from the country. Where you from? I'm from Georgia. Like from a small town. I'm from North of Atlanta about an hour. I didn't grow up listening to rap. But there was one rap where I listened to. It was Kashi 6. Offer him? Yeah, before I was a Christian when I was in middle school. And my alarm on my phone was Gooba. Oh yeah? Yeah. Back in middle school. I'm 22 now. I was back in middle school. Yeah. That's five years ago. Where are you? Where are you? How are you? Yeah. It's only five years ago. I'm 29. But if you were in middle school during Gooba, Gooba came out 2020. It came out May 8 of 2020. I mean, a different song. Was it 2020? No, because Gooba was my alarm. Yeah. So Gooba? Are you sure? Yeah. Bro, I made the song. Yeah. That was the first song that I came home when I got released from prison. I released Gooba. That was my first single. How many times have you been in prison? Because I know you're about to go back to prison. I'm going back to prison, like seven days. Yeah. So how long? What's today's Tuesday? I'll be in prison next Tuesday. So how many times have you been to prison before this day? Like seven times. I believe so. Not including this country, right? Like I've been in prison other countries too. What other countries have you been in prison? Dominican Republic. No way. Yeah. Would you go to prison there? And I think did I go to jail in Europe? I don't even know. Yeah, I think you did it one day. Wow. Yeah. So what does that kind of do for you? Like when you're in these settings, like is it dangerous for you or you kind of like, is it hard? What is prison life? It's like, I don't feel like anything is dangerous. Like, don't get me wrong. Yeah. A lot of s**t is dangerous. Like we're doing an interview on the 50 floor right now. This is pretty dangerous. I don't look at it as like, oh, is it, am I in danger? Am I in fear for my life? Because that's not living. You know what I mean? It's stupid, but it's not. I don't think I'm in danger. I look at it as a God saving me from something that I can't like stop. You know what I mean? You don't know if something bad was going to happen to me between January to April. You know what I mean? So I just take it as a blessing. And you mentioned God. You mentioned God. Do you have a faith? Do you believe in anything? I'm a full committed Christian. I don't want to, you know, use God's name and vein or use any way of s**t. Because I'm a God fair man. I know I'm not walking the right path so the Lord, but I try every chance that I get using my platform to tell everyone that, you know, Jesus' king and that, you know, he's going to one day, you know, come and rescue his church. And where did this like kind of upbringing of like, not believing in Jesus come from for you? I used to, my mom converted to Christianity. I believe in 2002 or 2001. I was five or six. And we went to church every day. We went to church. We went to church. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Friday, Saturdays and Sundays twice. So the only days that there wasn't no church was Mondays and Wednesdays. And somewhere around the year, there was church Mondays and Wednesdays where they call it in Bihelico. I don't know what that means in English, but I don't know either. Yeah, we would go and church seven days a week. Yeah. And so like, where do you feel like you're at now with Jesus in faith? I feel like I'm, I'm, Jesus has been calling my name. You know what I mean? Jesus has been saying, hey, it's time to come home. But I think Jesus is going to use me to bring a lot of souls to the church. He's going to make me spread his word. And I feel like as a kid, they always told me like the Lord is going to make you bring a lot of, you know, because, and I said this a lot of times, but I honestly strongly believe that Jesus uses his strongest. I mean, that is strongest, his most broken people. Yeah, people identities to show the world that he can use, you know, and let me finish before because people clipped us and cut it off. You know, I mean, like Jesus will use a crackhead. Jesus will use, you know, a gambling addict. Jesus will use, you know, someone so broken and he will use that person as an instrument to bring people to, you know, to, to his church. And like I said, if you look at it from the, from the, the darkest, the darkest and the past times, I feel like Jesus is the only way. It literally is the only way, you know, and I'm strongly believing in that. And I hate to like use this. I hate to use this as an example, but it's probably the best example I could, I could give. Like, look at Takaashi 69, look at Daniel Hernandez, Daniel Hernandez, look at Takaashi 69, how much chaos, how much drama he, the persona has caused. And I'm still alive to sit here and talk to, you know, to Bryce on a December 20, or 30 of December 30 of, of 2025. Look how many rappers and, and just human beings done past way on, on not looking for no bulls problems or anything. And I say that in the most humblest way to show that Jesus Christ has, has, has a, has a, he has a, a purpose with, with, with me, you know, if you were to die right now and saying before God on a scale of one, I don't think I'm going to heaven. I think, I think I failed God. I think I failed the church. I think I failed my, my, the reason I was, I was, I was created. Does that scare you? It does. I'm a God-fear man. Sometimes you get a chill, like when I'm, when I'm driving and I see a homeless person, right? And something like, it's the Holy Spirit, right? The Holy Trinity, which tells me, stop. Do a reversal. It's, it's that guilty conscience. What makes us human is conscious, right? You have a soul. Like because we all share the same skin. We all get up, eat. What makes us so different is our soul, our conscience, our beliefs, you know, our faith and God. So I think I need to, you know, start, aligning myself with, with the Lord. You know, you mentioned like, like a few minutes ago how you feel like God's calling your home, but you just have to take an instant. Yeah, and I, and I have a good example, like people come up to me and target Walmart, said Jesus gets tired. They say that to you, like saying, like, uh, random stranger said, listen, the Lord is calling you home, like he's getting tired. And you know, the Jesus doesn't punish people, but Jesus loves us. You know what I mean? He's, he's a jealous God. And I mean, like he, he loves you so much that he gave his only son to like, you know, because he wrote, and I could be mistaken. I'm a strong believer in Christianity, but Jesus wrote 10 commandments, right? The only way you make it into heaven. He knew, he knew that no human can make it into heaven without breaking those 10 commandments. So what he did, where he sent his only son through, through, through human flesh to die and across for our sins. And that's the reason we even get the chance to go to heaven. So when you were talking about like that feeling of calling home, people running up to you and talking to stuff like that, what, what do you think is stopping you from taking that step of like running into heaven? Because I'm not, I don't, I'm a, I'm a God fear of men. And if I'm not ready to like, right now, like, like in the Bible, if I'm not mistaken and say, you should not, should not have sex before marriage. Like I'm like, I'm sitting here drinking alcohol. If I, if I, if I'm preaching the word of the Lord and I'm going against it, why would I say, Lord, I'm ready. So just in case if I die right now, I have, I say, remember, Lord, you said you, you are forgiving God. You are this. I'm lying to the Lord and I'm lying to myself. Yeah. So that's why people come out to me and say, listen, the Lord is calling you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think you, I think you had the nail on the head. Scripture, Scripture even says that that even the demons believe. And I've been, I've been reading that and reflect it on that. The devil was an angel. And I, I, I think to myself, man, if the, even if the demons believe, then what does that mean for me? What makes me a new different than the demons? And if there are, because so many people say the same thing, they'll know I believe, I believe, I believe. So I'm like, what makes us different than the demons? And I think that's a reason. Well, I've seen this a lot of times and I said this one of myself. And you have demons inside of you, right? And I'm speaking to it is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. It's none of us out here. You might not notice it, right? But when you see, like we, we, we scroll on Instagram every day. We scroll on TikTok every day. When you see something message, God, and you scroll up, bro, fast, is that's the demon in you. And we hear something that's, that people talk about God, right? And Jesus, the demon puts its head down. The demons inside you, ignores it. So what I'm trying to say to you is that even the demon believes in God, but the devil doesn't like it. So he sends his demons to like, make you neglect the word. Well, that, that script in particular is literally talking about the demons of hell, right? And so even Satan and the demons, they believe in God. And so, you know, we, I think in America, if you believe in God, I, I tell this, you know, to my girlfriend all the time, if you believe in God, right? You can be, you can't pick and choose. You can't. If you believe in God, then you have to believe in the devil. There's good and bad, right? There's not only good. Yeah. So it's like if an, and I'll explain it to some autistic or, I'm, that doesn't want to understand, right? If you believe in Pepsi Cola, you believe in Coca Cola, right? And it's the most honest I could get because people want to be like, Oh, what do you mean? What do you mean? No, if you believe in Jesus Christ, there is a devil that does, it's dark and evil. I mean, sorry, good and bad. So what, so what do you think that means for you? You know, I mean, like we, you know, cause I'll tell you a little bit about my story. Like I grew up, I grew up in the South, I grew up going to church. I went to a private Christian school, but I had a big problem with Christianity when I was growing up because there were a lot of people that were, that said that they loved Jesus, but their actions were the opposite of Christianity. And they were forcing me how to live my life, but they were doing the total opposite. And so I had issues with that. There was hypocrisy I saw. There was a pastor in my hometown who had cheated on his wife, stole money from the church and ran. And then I remember when I was in the eighth grade, my grandfather had passed away to the pancreatic cancer and I blamed God for his death. And so I just had developed depression and anxiety for years and was felt hopeless as spare. I've never drank, I've never done drugs or anything, but I had a poor addiction. I had a addiction said people pleasing. I tried to find my identity in sports, all this other stuff. And when I was 17, I was going to take my life on Christmas day of 2020. And that night when I was going to take my life, I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus where he stopped me from taking my life. And the reason I'm bringing up the stories, because there was a large portion of my life where I convinced myself, even though I knew I didn't like God deep down, growing up, why go to a private Christian school? So that means I'm a Christian. And well, I go to church on Sundays occasionally. I'm there for Easter, I'm there for Christmas, so I'm a Christian. And I think that's where I'm at with this, like even the demons believe, you know, because even if the demons believe, Jesus says all in that day, on judgment day, people are going to stand before him and say, Jesus, did you not see the great things I did for you? I prophesied your name, I cast out demons in your name, I healed the sick. Let's rephrase it that I went to church. I read devotionals, I did good things. And he's going to look at them and say, depart from me. I don't even know who you are. And so that, that as me, convicts me on that night when I was 17, I prayed a prayer and as Jesus take away my depression and anxiety. I haven't had it since that day. It's been over five years. And so when I read that scripture, I'm like, man, I want to know what I'm doing. I'm going to know what is going to make me different than the demons, right? Because I'm of more value than the demons. I'm of more value than the birds. I'm of more value than the turf, the grass, you know, because I'm a human being, made in God's image. And I'm a God-fearing man like you. I fear God. But I think fear, just one of two things, right? I think fear can do one thing where it says, the Bible of Psalmist David writes in Psalm 25, he says, the friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, right? Because there are some people who say, well, I fear God. So I'm going to run to him. I'm going to run to him and build a relationship with you. It's like a deep, reverent love. Like I respect you, but I also love you. That's where I think some people go when they fear God. I think other people fear God and they run and they say, well, I'm not ready for that. I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that. And man, I could tell you, I was not ready at all that night that Jesus called me out. In fact, I was the most broken, the most lost, the most confused, the most upset, the most angry, the most prideful, the most immoral. I've ever been in my life all in that thing, but I was the most honest. And Jesus says, blessed are the pure and heart for they shall see God. And Jesus says the reward for being honest with God is him, you know? And so I think like I have been just fired up about this thing. Yes, I love Jesus. I love talking about him. I love talking about him right now. Like that's my thing. I love it. But more than just my thing, I believe Jesus is going to come back. And it's prophesized. And I feel like Jesus is going to come back for his church. And like I said, I live with that truth of saying, you know, have I done enough? You know, have I been honest with with with yourself being honest with? And I'm cursing right now because I'm speaking like, be honest with no with no trend, you know, just full of transparency. We know, you know, a remorse or cautious. I feel like the Lord, you know, has like we live in the world of sin. Like if you look down right now, you look behind us, right? This was all created in the world of sin of prostitution, of drugs, of alcohol, you know, immorality, all of it. So have I done enough? You know, and I don't we don't we don't we don't deserve the grace of God. You know what I mean? Where I think the Lord is coming soon. Not only is he's coming soon, he needs his church to come home. You know, just look, look at the prophecy, right? Look at all the things that's happening with Israel and and and and like the Islamic, right? I feel like God loves Islam. God loves Israel, right? Those are his chosen people. But I feel like God loves his creation. Where whether you're Muslim, whether you're, you know, his chosen people, which is the, you know, the Jewish people, I feel like God loves us because he, where create where his creation, the devil didn't create the Muslims, right? I feel like we are all his children and we need to repent, right? We need to, there's one God, right? The Holy Trinity, which the one God is God, his son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. And we are all meant meant to to to serve a eternity in heaven, you know what I mean? We shouldn't, you know, no one should deserve to serve their rest of their life in hell, you know what I mean? But that's our choice. And you said you feel like if you died right now that you wouldn't be with Jesus and in a dream. Yeah, I'm honest with myself. Yeah. So I just took two shots of alcohol before this interview. I think like, and I did that. And I'll continue and like I'm continuing to sin. I'm not perfect, but do you want to stop? I can't use, yeah, I can't use that excuse when I'm in front of the Lord, when I'm in front of God, I can't say, yo, well, I have this problem. I have this thing because you know that little thing that tells you don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. That's, that's not just, that's not just like my, my, my, that's literally, the Lord. Yeah. And I'm going against that. Yeah. I mean, dude, I've been and I'm and and you can say fighting you fighting it, but what you said when you go in front of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you said, hey, look at all the stuff I'm doing, look all the stuff I've done. Look this, look this. And what Jesus will say, I don't know you. Yeah. Yeah. And when the prostitute was selling, when the prostitute forgot who it was, she was selling herself and everyone was judging her, right? What Jesus said. And he would have said whoever didn't sin, may they speak up, right? He was drawing on the floor. Yeah. He said, who he was drawing with his finger. He said, whoever didn't sin, may you speak up now. And everyone sin. So who are you to judge? It's one Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. You know, I've been, I mean, dude, I've for years, I'm very particular with who I like to sit down with. And have, and have conversation. I'm very particular, very particular. And I've been, I've been praying for you for years. And so when we were able to sit down, I, I mean, I wanted this to be a priority because yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a podcast. People are going to listen. I think people want to see, no, I think the demons won't let them listen, but their conscience will say, go back and watch this interview. I think, and, and, and, and people want to, people want to hear me say, yo, this guy, that guy, this, right? But the demons don't want them to, to hear this kind of like, what does, what does six nine, the Google six nine, the gummo six nine, the Billy six nine, the guy who just walked out Jake Paul, the guy that would be with Steve will do it. The guy would be streaming with Aiden. Is this fear for of, of our Lord? Far Jesus? Yeah, I think Jesus is real, bro. He's very real. And I mean, and I, but you know, to be honest, bro, look at me. I pleaded guilty to 47 years of, of, of life. People look at snitching, cooperating. Like, oh, well, that's what that, that's what snitches get. They get a reduced sentence. A lot of people are going to ignore these facts, but do you know that everyone doesn't get the opportunity to cooperate with the federal government? If they want you, they got you. They don't give you a chance. They might choke about it. You might laugh about it and say, oh, well, Jesus gave you an opportunity to snitch. No, Jesus has what Jesus has for you. No one can take from you. And not meaning my corporate, meaning I have something written for you until it fulfills. I won't take it from you. Do you, I think, I think people really want to know like how you're doing. Like how, how are you actually? I'm fucked up. I'm fucked up because I'm living in and I think where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and God has said, what are you going to get enough? What do you want? Exactly. What do you want? I don't know. And that's living without a purpose. And that's the scariest thing. You know, today driving here, I said, what am I doing? Like I got a, I got a, I got a stream. I got an interview with you, right? I have to do it. It's, it's just completely professionalism, right? Well, I think I got a, I got a stream of Steve. I got a stream of Aiden. I got to go to studio with Schlomi. Who do I cancel? Who do I do this? What is my purpose? What I'm doing? I'm going to jail in seven days. Well, I even think, I know you said that like, oh, I've got to do this, right? Yeah, but, but even you and I would say, well, it's no coincidence that it finally worked out that we finally got to sit here. We've been talking to Chris for a minute, but now it's here today. Why don't you talk about Aiden? He's calling me right now. And I, and shout out to Aiden, but I had to cancel on him because I'm like, it's responsibility. It's me doing stuff is me, you know, and, and, but does it bring me happiness? One, no. Two, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to jail. Should I spend more time with my family? Yeah. I'm not invaded. And my mom OK is this, this, this. Yeah. But then I'm like, I'm the one keeping the household. I'm the one paying the bills. I'm the one doing this. But you know what? It's when you're right with God none of this matters. Yeah, you're right. So I feel like, I feel like, you know, I don't think it's coincidence, right? We've been working for a while to try to sit down with you and have a conversation and get the chat. And I know to you it might be like, oh, you know, this is work. You know, this is professional. We're sitting down. But to me, I'm like, man, God wants to speak to Danny. You know, I know you say, hey, I know you, they all call you Danny because they know you and you know, you're tachashi to the world. But really, you're Danny. Yeah. And to me, when I'm talking to you, I don't feel like I'm talking to the six nine that I used to listen to in middle school before I was following Jesus. I feel like I'm talking to Danny right now. And God loves to hear about, I love you, man. I think God's really is after your heart. And I know you say you hear that a lot, but it's just the truth. And it is no coincidence that you're still here, that you're still alive, that God's decoration, still coincidence that you're getting a shorter sentence than normal. You don't even, like, there's no, I didn't even tell them that in anything. Like, I definitely got a short sentence because if you look at the docket, she at my transcript, the judge said, I was ready to give you the maximum, which is nine months, but you got a shorter sentence. And I got a shorter sentence and ask off, you know, follow and say, with Jesus Christ, but there's this thing that I think we all need to live with. And it's that urgency, right? And as like your brother is someone that loves you, even though we just met and I'm like, man, I love you. I'm here for you. I would do anything for you, even though we just met sincerely. That's how I feel. I would do anything for you, even though we just met. I want to see everyone I love, which is anyone that breathes oxygen, be with Jesus. And you, I mean, dude, you've been to jail seven times. You understand it. You understand you've pled guilty to stuff. You stay there. They read off the list of your crimes and they read your sentence. But the only way that you can receive the forgiveness and grace of God is if you just let it happen. And that's what forgiveness is. It's canceling the debt that we owe God. That's like you getting read the craziest sentence of your life. Imagine the craziest stuff you've ever done in your life compiled onto a sheet and a judge was about to send you away for life. And then he goes, actually, somebody else is going to do your sentence for you. You can walk free. They canceled the debt that you owed people with your crimes and everything that you've ever done. And I know you say, like, oh, I haven't done enough. What have I done? And, you know, I know we've been talking about that. But really, that's the fact. I have not done enough. And I love Jesus and I do my best to follow him every day. You will never do enough. You haven't done enough. And there will never be enough things that you can do the same thing with me. You know, and that's what grace is, right? We have this infinite debt and we're limited by night beings. And let me cut you off right there because just that one thing, because when I went to jail last year, when I went to prison last year, I was with Diddy and I was with the president of Honduras and I was with San Brick Freeman. People forget that the word grace. People's like, well, I have grace. I haven't done enough. I have a grace. God knows when you, when you, when that conscious speaks. God knows when you say, why grace? I had, I had grace. What about grace, God? What about grace? You can't just use grace as a scapegoat. As an escape goat. God knows your heart. God knows that. That's right. I feel like when you're in front of God, God is going to buy, remember this? That little one thought, because I have it. That little one thought behind Bryce's head, right? That you're like, damn, what if God brings this up? God knows that thought. God is going to bring it up right here. And you know what I'm like, yo, like, yo, put it side by side. God is going to do that. And he's going to like, look at that. I knew about that. I knew that. I knew that was what worried you. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I feel like, and that's what on judgment day, when he shows you that, God is going to be like, you didn't use my grace, like in vain. Yeah. Yeah. I think I do believe God wants to use you in magnificent ways. I think he wants to use you in a powerful way to bring people to him. But it's interesting. The Bible in Corinthians, when Paul writes to the church of Corinth, the church in Corinth was super messed up, dude. I mean, they were doing crazy stuff, like all sleeping with each other and like, I just kind of, it's just a bunch of debauchery. And he says, hey, you can't drink from the cup of demons and the cup of the Lord. It's one of the other. And in the book of Revelation, you know, all about the end times, Jesus says to the church of Leia Decia, who was lukewarm, they weren't cold or hot, they were sitting on the fence. He says, I'll vomit you out of my mouth. I would rather you'd be cold or hot, not both. And I think that's the urgency that I've got. I think that's what we got to have. You know, it's like, I want to be all in. What do you think kind of holds you back from being all in? Do you think it's a fear of finances, fear of family following apart, fear of this fear of that? Exactly. You said it right there. The first thing you said it was there. Fear of finances. I said, God, what if I stop being 69? How am I gonna, how am I gonna spend from my family? Are you, are you, are you happy that I heard this quote one time from this guy George Mule or he's a famous Christian from a couple hundred years ago? He said, if you're not content with the amount of money you have in your bank account, you would never be content with double the amount of money in your bank account. And it's interesting that there's a story at Luke chapter 16 where Jesus talks to this man, a rich young ruler, and he goes, hey, hey Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven, kind of cocky? And Jesus says, well, love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength, love your neighbor as yourself. And he's like, why already do that? And Jesus says, okay, we'll sell everything you haven't followed me. And it says that the rich man got sad. And this is where we hear the analogy for it's easier for a rich man, for it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man in their kingdom of heaven. And the man got sad. Now, it doesn't say it's impossible, okay? And he saw the man got sad. And he says, what seems impossible for man is possible with God. That's what he says. So think about this, there is no such thing as scarcity in the kingdom of God. Now that doesn't mean when you're becoming a Christian that you're going to be some rich millionaire, billionaire, God trust people with money. For example, I had a coworker I used to work with years ago who didn't believe in Jesus. But he said, well, if God gives me money, when I pray, then I'll believe in him. And he never got money. But he was a bad steward with money. No, he couldn't be trusted with money. Why would God give him money if it would just crush him? You know what I mean? And he said, oh God's not real because he's not giving me money. Whereas I know people who are very wealthy people who steward it well and give back, and they love Jesus. What I'm making is, is if we really do follow Jesus, he himself says, if God feeds the birds of the air and gives beauty to the lilies of the field, and they're not even made in this image, how much more will God take care of you because you're valuable in making this image? And I think every day, whether you're 80 years old, 20 years old, 29, whatever you may be, I think the hardest lesson is to trust God. I think, you know, this is Jesus' thing, it's beautiful because it's more than just a feeling, you know, it's like that. Jesus is closer than our skin. That's crazy to me. He can be in us, he can lead us, and he loves us, and he does it just want to like, shower us in the feeling of love. He wants to transform us with his love. You know, it's like, I don't clean myself up before I go to the shower, I get clean in the shower. I got to bring my junk and be honest with him. And because of that, his radical love for me, think about that. God knowing every nasty thing, Danny has done. Everything. His love on you and says let my love be poured out for you because that's what the cross was. That's what his death and resurrection was, was mad love because he knew that was the only way we could be with Jesus in heaven, was if he died. That's the most radical love, explanation of love, you know, people think love is sex, the feeling you get when you smoke do drugs, get the blue unconditional love. That love, a man of a way to do... his creation and he created us, he created us in the form of him way, he sent his only son, he gave his flesh, his blood, that's the only way we would make it into eternal life. How are you mentally feeling about going back into jail? I'm ready, that's what I'm ready. I just want to get it over with. No, it's not even get it over with. That's what it is, let's go. A person who knows he has the Lord in savior, listen and put it like this. God has everything written, you know that, right? Everything that's going to happen to you, you can't break what God has read for you. Right now you can't go get a priest of bread and try to choke on him, but like, I broke God knows everything's going to happen. God knows that moment where you're about to break. You know that? Like literally God, you can't, right now if I get up through this mic and jump off the shin say, I never fulfill God's thing, God knows everything you're going to do. So I'm ready bro, like I'm going in there knowing that Jesus Christ is like walking beside me, like, let's knock this out, you know? I love that, like imagine us like tonight, leave it here a week from now, you're in jail and you're running in that jail, not thinking, oh I'm about to do time. But man, Jesus is working on my heart, I really want to fully give this a shot. This is a mission field, not time. You know, do you know Lil Tony, you know who that is? He's a, he does a drill rap in Atlanta, but Jesus radically saved him and he was in jail. He radically came to the Lord and when he came out, he was just making this big dent for Jesus because he was like, man, I'm all, I was in this one thing and now in the other thing and you know, the best gauge of someone following Jesus is does my life look different before I claim to have been following Jesus until after I claim to follow Jesus because Jesus says in the scripture said it costs something to follow him, our comfort, our preferences, our, you know, what we like and sometimes cost that, cost things that we love sometimes because maybe it's holding us back, whatever it may be. And he's making this big dent in in jail. He's like praying for the inmates administering them and loving on them because, because again, God sees their heart and Jesus has done a radical change in his heart and is doing a radical change and I think many, many people are coming to faith right now. I think it's big, I think it's powerful, I think it's necessary. And I think God really does want to use dent in that. I think he does and but ultimately aside from being used, your purpose is simply to love God. That's it. I was designed to love God. You were designed to love God. That's the first commitment, love God. And that's where he says, seek first the kingdom of heaven and all these other things will follow. My first priorities, I'm going to love God. I'm going to love God. Everything I do the way I talk, the way I walk, the way I act, I want the way I walk to make someone go. What does he have that I don't have? It's not some certain tattoos. It's not that materialistic. It's Jesus. And that's what we want. And that's what I want for you. I want that for you. I want you to feel empowered and also not alone. You know how hard it is to do this stuff alone? It's hard. It's so hard, bro. You don't have to be alone. I genuinely love you. I used to be the most selfish pride for you. I only cared about myself before I was a Christian. If I told you some of the things I did before I was a Christian, I don't know if we'd be sitting together. But God does miraculous things. I really think He's working on you and tugging on you. Yeah. Well, I feel it. I know it. Yeah. What do you think is kind of like a next step for you in this? I want to... There's a lot of things I want to do. You know a lot. I'm just not going to... I don't know. It's not that I want to speak on it. I just want to follow the... Follow the... Wherever it takes me. My whole life, I never had a plan. We call the crashing burn. Me and my friends call the crashing burn. We literally call the crashing burn. We just go to where the wind takes us. Yeah. And that's my plan. Yeah. I had to... I had to... I wanted to random... random question before I have one final thought. And I want to pray for you. Yeah. Before we end. Random question. You mentioned earlier that you ran jail with Diddy. Yeah. What was that like? Funny story. And I'm just going to talk about Diddy. Diddy seemed to get on my knees three times a day to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ, right? I prayed in the morning when I woke up before I brushed my teeth. I prayed in the middle of the day around 6 p.m. and I prayed right before I go to bed. I did that probably about for seven days or not. I believe about a week, week and a half. And Diddy said, hey... I see you... I see you read a lot of Bible because what I do... I'll pray in the morning, but on my second prayer at 6 p.m. I'll read... I'll read Psalms 91. Psalms 121. And Daniel 7, I believe, when they put them in the dental lines. I'll read that every day at 6 p.m. And he says, I see you read a lot of the Bible. I see you very... You know, you get on your knees every day and pray to the Lord. Can I pray with you? And I said, yeah. We both got on our knees and prayed to the Lord and we said, Lord, we love you. We don't get on our knees to ask you for anything. We actually, we thank you for putting us here. We didn't ask the Lord for not one thing. We didn't say, hey, take care of our family. Hey, do this. Do that. We just say thanks. And I said, hey, you don't think God gets tired of us asking, asking, asking. How about just give thanks? We're in general right now, but we're both breathing. We both have two arms that work, two legs that work. A neck that can move, right? A lip stack and open, nose that can inhale, eyes that can see. Right? Our digestive system works. Everything is functional. Why not give thanks? There's people who can't walk, can't see, can smell, can't talk. So we gave thanks and give to me a Bible. Wow. Yeah. It's encouraging. I mean, one final thought. I wanted to share with you before I pray for you. I mean, Danny, I don't love you and think you're valuable because you've had some hit records. And because you have some followers and people like you and because you have some cool jewelry and you got good style. I care about you because I think you're made in God's image and I think you're valuable because you're a son. And I want to encourage you with that. I want you to know anything you need. Here for you. Grateful for you. Anything you need in prison, prayer, anything, letters after it. Anything you need before I care about you. I think you're incredible and I think I think you're honest. And I appreciate people that are honest and I really respect that. And I would love to pray for you before we close. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Awesome. Yeah, Jesus. Thank you so much for Danny God. Thank you for today. Thank you for a conversation. God, we just love you. We care about you. Jesus. Thank you for honesty. God, would you just keep moving in Danny's heart? Would you keep tugging on and make it so undeniable where he just can't. He can't push it away. You know, I do it sometimes too. When you know just God, can you just like make it where he can't push it away? When he goes into prison, he's a life of that light starts tonight. Life starts, you know, today and that light moves everywhere we go. The way we talk, the way we walk, the way we treat people. Would you highlight people to Danny in prison to pray for and encourage and love on. In your name, Jesus. Amen. Protect him. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. Absolutely. Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Love you. Love you a lot. Love you a lot. Thank you.