4 Minute Sermons is back at it again with his latest single Opinions. Fresh off of his debut album he returns to the 2020 spotlight with a new single and music video. With a more radio sounding production and a message that hits as hard as the beat Opinions is a strong beginning for the young rap artist who at the age of 20 years old already has bagged an album and 8 singles to go along with it.
With vulnerability being a front line of his branding 4 Minute Sermons took to Instagram shortly before the single’s release to shed light on his journey and the love he has for God.
“Hi my name is Markus Riggs, a.k.a. “4 Minute Sermons. I wanted if your reading to take the time to tell you a bit about me and how I got here to you reading this. I grew up in a family of seven outside Cincinnati, Ohio. I was raised in a Christian home and homeschooled until I graduated in 2017. It’s been a long painful road walking with God and even more so before I came to believe in him. Between the ages of 8-10 I attempted suicide multiple times. Thankfully the ages of 8-10 are ones of ignorance. Both were failed attempts due to my ignorance. I hated God, I hated church, sermons, people, my siblings, pretty much everyone that didn’t coddle me or “understand me”.
Shortly after I turned 11 I came to believe and know Christ as my Savior. He truly began to move in my life and change my outlook on who I was and what I wanted to become. However my victory in Christ didn’t come without some heavy losses. Just weeks after being saved I stumbled for the first time ever onto Pornography. The innocence I had was stripped away from me in a matter of seconds. It was from that point on that I would struggle with it for years and years. Throughout my early teen years there was nothing but war in my mind and it took the hand of God to help me overcome many issues that plagued my early teen years. Some things I still battle but many things God has delivered me from.
When I turned 15 I really began to love the Christian rap genre, artists like the 116 clique and NF really inspired an already existent passion for music that I carried around and I began to rap over their beats and truly develop a passion for writing my struggles unto paper. Writing has always been like a conversation between me and God, the pages just happen to be the translator of those conversations. I became obsessed with making music by early 2017. As an obsessive hobby I continued doing that for about 6 months and came out with my first album “The Struggle.” Yet it wasn’t until around the summer of 2018 I decided I wanted to pursue this passion for a living. From that point on I have been doing exactly that.”
4 Minute Sermons - Opinions Lyrics
(Verse 1)
Yeah, Heard that you had dissed the song I heard you were bitter at me/
Someone told me thought about and truth is I just started laughing/
Ever wanna talk about hit me up and I'll talk gladly/
Same goes for the haters who don’t like the songs and call me trashy/
I have no respect for people who have no respect for me/
All these people out here talking wanna switch my destiny/
Think you a rapper trashing me telling me how I can better rhyme/
Here's some advice shut your mouth turn around get back in line/
Joke aside I know we have opinions on the things we see/
But there's a time a place to sit down talk about how we believe so/
Quit making accounts and the commenting on the posts I publish/
Thinking you know me spreading hate is not only pathetic but it is rubbish/
(Chorus x2)
Those are your opinions/
These are my opinions/
If we disagree we should not only see division/
You be you cause that is who you got to be/
And possibly one day you and me agree but I appreciate the honesty/
(Verse 2)
I do not need more opinions/
I don’t need your two cents/
"Hey Markus if your asking me"
Well I didn't sit down don't be a dufus/
If there's one thing people like to offer it is always their opinion/
All the answers all the problems but the wanna make all your decisions?/
My opinions very simple/
My thoughts are not complicated/
Why can we not talk opinions/
For a sec and not debate it/
But that is just my opinion/
Don't even pay no mind to me/
Cause I struggle with the very thing/
I'm yearning you to try to be/
Remember I am always questioning/
Different thoughts keep testing me/
On a journey to try and be/
What I believe would be best of me/
I'm sure that I will learn in time/
Don't we all for better or worse/
The opinion is ours but the call is yours/
Don’t let our opinion severe your worth/
(Chorus x2)
Those are your opinions/
These are my opinions/
If we disagree we should not only see division/
You be you cause that is who you got to be/
And possibly one day you and me agree but I appreciate the honesty/
(Verse 3)
I talk about me I don’t talk about the cash/
You will never see me curse but I never wanna bash/
Don't ever wanna meet if you not about the facts/
Get a v.i.p. if you disagree with that/
In is comin the fast flow coming at ya fast/
Forget the countdown go ahead and blast/
Sit down buckle up is what I’m trying say/
Go ahead and strap in here we go okay!?
I pin um with the venom diss um if in denim/
Kidding' or pretending' depending on your opinion/
Didn't even get it forget it you didn’t give it attention/
I am not independent just dependent and repentant/
Like a defendant dependent on someone to defend him/
If your offended lemme end it I bet you think I'm whack/
And won't ever be what I better be severing everything causing division I never even asked/
I refuse to board the plane/
I know I said that don't be a pain/
All I'm trying to say is don't take for granted the very gift of that very thing/
Love life don't bury pain don't carry lies that's a scary thing/
Stand to fight and bow to pray I am out of time hang tight okay?
(Chorus x2)
Those are your opinions/
These are my opinions/
If we disagree we should not only see division/
You be you cause that is who you got to be/
And possibly one day you and me agree but I appreciate the honesty/
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