Reviewed by Steve Hayes

We enter the Street Pastor's world with the title song as he sets the scene in an almost epic track as he swings in from the mid-west and we hear a determination to fight the battle for Christ and not the soldier of the streets. This is the story. . .
Fired up by Jeremiah 3:15, the 20 year-old Street Pastor has been called to shepherd the sheep that refuse to step foot in the church. The rapper delivers a varied and feel-good album with a street sound and energy. Across the album there are jump-up tracks fizzing with zest, such as "Don't-Cha" and "I Got Ya" with K-Drama. Street Pastor brings an insight into secular hip-hop with its superficial and weak lyrics. Instead, he is on a mission to produce tunes that demand to be turned up. "Yet the radio stations don't want to play us, cos they don't want to hear Jesus unless Kanye made it. . ." Moving sideways, "The Box" is a guitar-based east coaster with a smooth commentary from Street Pastor about the hood, swiftly followed by another tuneful number dedicated to his mother. There are odes to the hood's social consequences such as the down-paced "For The Family'. There is a fun edge with "Goodbye World" with an almost John Reuben trace over acoustic guitar strum as we hear of what Christ has done and how we need to live for Christ. Hidden tracks complete the album.

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