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August 2, 2010

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B-U wins Big at the 2010 Rhythm of Gospel Awards

RALEIGH, NC: It has been a long and exciting week for B-U at the 2010 Rhythm of Gospel Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. Fromappearances, photo sessions to interviews and even a community outreach appearance,this past award week has been all but boring. They arrived in Memphis on July20^th to get adjusted to the area and do some sight seeing on the mosttalked about Beale Street, tasted the city’s best BBQ ribs fromRendezvous, enjoyed the city’s best Italian cuisine from the restaurant Spidiniand great soul food breakfast at the Blue Plate Café. Truly Memphis knows howto treat it’s guests.

Besides all the eating and PR, the day of the award show was one toremember. It was a big night for B-U and B-U Entertainment. B-U was upfor 3awards and came away with 2, Holy Hip Hop Song of the Year for theirsingle “RighteousKnow Why” and Holy Hip Hop Group of the Year. They were also presentersfor the award show, presenting the Rhythm of Gospel Song of the YearAward. Totop that off, B-U gave an excellent performance that captivated theaudience and sent a message of reformation and inner change to those whoneeded to accept Jesus in their life as their personal Savior.

“First and foremost we give Jesus all the praise, glory and honor for the gifts He has blessed us with. This is a great accomplishment and weare truly humbled to be awarded with 2 Rhythm of Gospel Awards.” –S.Bernard of B-U

“To God be the glory! This is a blessing and an honor.” -Ursela of B-U

B-U's album "Tell Me the Truth" releases October 16, 2010 in select storesand online on itunes, Amazon mp3, verizon, myspace music, napster, zune,nokia, spotify, limewire, medianet, greatindiemusic, and emusic.

The Rhythm Of Gospel Awards is a event designed to be an evening of entertainment and recognition, hosted by The National & Independent Gospel MusicAssociation and Produced by Founder and Executive Director Mr. MarkRogers and Co Produced by Trenton Ware, and Maurice Cheairs.

This Televised Award Show recognizes outstanding churches/pastors, choirs andindependent gospel music artist of all genres, for their outstandingcontributions toward the betterment and advancement of their communities.

The Rhythm of Gospel Award Show offered a platform for “Independent Gospel Artist” and gave them the opportunity to network formally whilecongratulating trailblazers of various sectors in all communities in a positivecollaboration towards bringing all ethnicities together.

The festivities hosted at the Rhythm Of Gospel Award Show featured over 100 different local, regional andnational musical acts from Alternative Christian Rock, Southern Gospel,Traditional, Contemporary, Gospel Hip Hop, Urban, and Folk to Cool Jazz and HotTejano Rhythms. Dedicated to enhancing the full experience for thousands oftourist, our organization. Increases revenue for restaurants, hotels, shoppingfacilities, churches, and on-site vendors.

B-U Bio

Get ready for B-U, a husband & wife team in the gospel bringing thetruth about Jesus Christ over in house produced tracks. B-U is a trulyanointed duo that GOD has chosen to reach the youth and young adults in the nations through the ministry and gift ofmusic. Their sound is like none you’ve everheard before, as the words minister to the spirit, the music enhances thepraise.

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In 2002, if you were to tell B-Nard and Ursela that they would become the anointedhusband and wife Christian rap team the Jesus has made them today; they wouldhave probably laughed at you and said “yeah right”. But when Jesus has a planfor you, it will happen. They met in a studio in 2002 to only later to be unitedin marriage in 2005. During this time they were pursuing their own careers inmusic; Ursela as the hip-hop artist “FIN” and B-Nard as the r & b soloist“RBP”. They teamed up to become thesecular hip-hop team “FIN & RBP”. But being active members in their churchand hearing the Word of God reformed them to make a change in their individuallives altogether. B-Nard re-dedicated his life and Ursela dedicated her life toJesus. During this time Jesus spoke to B-Nard and told him to stop secularmusic and minister musically in gospel. With that being said they teamed up as theChristian rap group B-U.

B-U meaning is “Being-Used by Jesus Christ”.

Trusting GOD and being obedient in ministry, B-U has won the Holy Hip-Hop Artist of theYear Award for the North Carolina Gospel Announcer’s Guild for the year 2008.B-U has received 2 Rhythm of Gospel Award nominations in 2009, 2 Independent/InspirationalGospel Music Award (IGMA) nominations and is a two time winner of 2010 Rhythmof Gospel Award. They were winners inthe category of Holy Hip Hop Group of the Year and Holy Hip Hop Song of theYear for the single, ‘Righteous Know Why’. B-U’s main focus is telling the truth about Jesus Christ to the youthand young at heart as they continue to minister to all in their unique fashionthat God has instilled in them. Their ministry is based on this quote:

“This we do for Christ!”

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“ ³For we [Christians] are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit and by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves in Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [on what we are] in the flesh and on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances—”

(Philippians 3:3, Amplified Bible)

The Apostle Paul was not ruled by things like an addiction to the approval and appreciation of people. No, he was an FBI Christian. That is he was a Firm Believer In God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit (1 X 1 X 1 = 1) no matter what someone thought about him or how they treated him. This does not mean that he was nasty. It means that he didn’t define “nice” as pleasing people in a way that contradicted the purposes of God. Paul dared to care for people while staying true to Biblical teachings.

God developed him, so that he could take it when people became more and more stubborn speaking evil of and living contrary to the Way of the Lord because some thought that Paul did not have the right background or credentials to do what he was doing. The Apostle Paul's identity was not tied to the flesh, outward privileges, physical advantages and external appearances. Try though they might to stop the Apostle Paul and to shift his direction to Satanic ways, they couldn’t. An attack on Paul is the same as an attack on God. That doesn’t mean that Paul didn’t have shipwrecks, but it does mean that God made sure that Paul sailed through all the seas of life, succeeded in the plans God made for him before the foundation of the world and stayed anchored in his relationship with God first and people second. Some practices of FBI Christians are:

· Praise God for the progress He has accomplished in your life. If the Holy Spirit is so strong in you that you can put down a sin stronghold in a day. Praise God. If it takes longer. Praise God. For example, say you smoked five cigarettes a day five years ago, but today you only smoke two cigarettes a day. One day you will not smoke. (See Romans 7:15-25).

• If God chose you and called you, never give up. The righteous are bold as a lion. The righteous are not sinless; their sins are washed away by the blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ who is transforming them daily into an ever more accurate reflection of who He is.

· Put the devil in his place; that is behind you. Reject shame, condemnation and any apology for where you are at provided you are in Christ and seeking Him and His ways. Someone said: "I'm okay, and I am on my way." God will get you to the final destination. The truth is you will battle some sin until the grave or rapture. Conviction and cleansing in one area means it’s time for God to convict and cleanse you in another area. Isn’t God so good that He doesn’t show us all our problems in a day?

• Press past distraction and discouragement and attempts to silence your voice and destroy you. The enemy is trying to intimidate you. Disobey the devil and his demons. If your Master is Christ, why bow down to the prince of this world? It doesn’t matter what resources the kingdom of darkness has. Greater is the God inside of Christians than the whole wide world.
• Put on the full armor of God (See Ephesians 6:10-18). The devil is going to expose your relatively little errors while covering up the extensive errors of his people.
• Refuse to be paralyzed by the attacks of the kingdom of darkness. In a way it’s a compliment; if you had no value in the kingdom of God, there would not be any vigorous attack against you.
• Pursue peace, but don’t accept peace at any price. If you are in a long-term, non-familial relationship full of strife, seek God for permission to separate. Living in strife and division saps your strength.

“ ⁴Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?”

(Proverbs 27:4, Amplified Bible)

Kisha Jones, 38, tricked Monique Hunter, 25, into taking an abortion-inducing drug because Kisha’s husband, Anthony Jones, had fathered a child with Monique in 2009. After the seven-months-pregnant Monique took the drug and went into labor Kisha asked a male friend to go to Kings County Hospital in New York with what he claimed was breast milk for baby Anthony Hunter Jr. but was actually toxic. Monique and Anthony Hunter Jr. survived the abortion-inducing drug and toxic liquid. Then Kisha went into the hospital, posed as an administrator and tried to have the baby boy taken off a ventilator.

“Chesed” (חֶסֶד) is a Hebrew word that can be translated into the English words “loving-kindness”, “steadfast love,” “loyalty”, “compassion,” “mercy” or “goodness”. “Chesed” refers to God’s persistent love of Israel in spite of Israel’s unfaithfulness to Him. Kisha lacked chesed; when her husband was unfaithful to her she set out to harm him by harming his offspring and his lover. Fueled by jealousy and anger Kisha, a mother of four children, operated in steadfast hatred, treachery, unforgivingness and cruelty.

Correction without compassion conceals sins in the person trying to correct another. Sometimes we try to justify our jealousies, anger, hatred and other sins by concealing them with claims of seeking righteousness. Yes, the adultery between Kisha’s husband and Monique was wrong. Yet Kisha was not the one to cast stones on the adulterous parents and their offspring because unlike God Kisha sought correction without compassion. Kisha did not have a heart broken by the damages of adultery to the people who commit adultery or a heart to help adulterers repent and seek the way of life through Jesus Christ. Like the Pharisees in John 8 Kisha had a heart to destroy human beings. The Pharisees had no compassion for the woman caught in adultery. Full of jealousy, anger and malice they dragged the woman from the sex act perhaps sweaty and partly naked and placed her on public display after breaking into Jesus’ class hoping not only to stone the woman but also to stone/destroy the ministry of Jesus. Kisha had no compassion for her husband, Monique or baby Anthony Hunter Jr. Kisha subjected them to the pain of the abortion-inducing drug Cytotec, the pain of suffocation by trying to take the baby off the ventilator and the psychological pain of sickness and seeing your offspring fighting for their life. However, Jesus couples correction with compassion. He couples chesed with truth. Jesus counseled the woman caught in adultery in John 8:11 (Amp), “. . . ¹¹I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on sin no more.” When someone sins against us the challenge for a Christian is to operate in chesed and truth. Adultery is to be confronted, corrected and changed into godliness without communicating to the sinners they are unreachable by God or committing sins against the sinners.

Anthony and Monique sinned against God, Kisha, Anthony Hunter Jr. and society. Anytime people do not follow the instructions of God; they are sinning against God and people. God’s view on adultery can be found in Exodus 20:14 (Amp) which says, “¹⁴You shall not commit adultery.” 1 John 3:4 (Amp) says, “⁴Everyone who commits (practices) sin is guilty of lawlessness; for [that is what] sin is, lawlessness (the breaking, violating of God's law by transgression or neglect--being unrestrained and unregulated by His commands and His will).” Anthony’s sex belonged exclusively to his wife, Kisha. God designed for sexual satisfaction to be found in the marriage of one man and one woman. Hebrews 13:4 (Amp) says, “⁴Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.” Anthony and Monique also sinned against baby Anthony Hunter Jr. and society because they brought him into the world outside of the family unit God created. From the beginnings of the human race, the ungodly idea has existed that a man could successfully have multiple wives and/or lovers. In Genesis 4 Lamech is the first one recorded to try this idea. Lamech had two wives, Adah and Zillah. Lamech's sin plays a role in the moral decline of the human race. Genesis 5 records the generations of the human race leading to a time when God in Genesis 6 describes people as being so far from a spiritual connection with God that He calls them “basar”(בָּשָׂר ) which is the Hebrew word that can be translated into the English words for “flesh,” “meat” or “body.” Anthony’s lust and covetousness for a woman who was not his wife brought out the wickedness of jealousy, hatred and other sins in Kisha’s heart. The Bible warns us that adultery exposes other sins and destroys lives. Proverbs 6:32-35 (Amp) says, “³²But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks heart and understanding (moral principle and prudence); he who does it is destroying his own life. ³³Wounds and disgrace will he get, and his reproach will not be wiped away. ³⁴For jealousy makes [the wronged] man furious; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance [upon the detected one]. ³⁵He will not consider any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment]; neither will he be satisfied, though you offer him many gifts and bribes.”

Kisha, who had no prior criminal record, ended up in prison because she did not prevail over her emotions. She was charged with attempted murder, attempted abortion, assault and other charges. You may say to yourself, “I would never do what Kisha did.” Sometimes the sins that we are the most critical of are the very ones we are doing in a different way. Romans 2:1 (Amp) says, “¹Therefore you have no excuse or defense or justification, O man, whoever you are who judges and condemns another. For in posing as judge and passing sentence on another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge are habitually practicing the very same things [that you censure and denounce].” We do not fully know what is in our hearts and what might come out of our hearts in certain situations. Every story has at least two sides. Perhaps Kisha was compelled to do what she did because she could no longer contain her emotional reaction to her husband abusing her verbally, sexually and/or physically for years. Many of us think that we have good, clean hearts, but King David tells the truth about all of us in Psalm 51:5 (Amp) when he says, “⁵Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful].” David was anointed to be king of Israel, and it was said that he was a man after God’s own heart. King David probably did not realize that out of that same heart would spring adultery against and murder of one of his top military leaders, Uriah the Hittite. God took the life of the child conceived by King David and Bathsheba, but God counsels human beings in Exodus 20:13 (Amp), “¹³You shall not commit murder.”

God creates human life through parents. No matter how children are conceived, they are created by God; and God has multiple purposes for their life. The sin of the parents is not the sin of their children. Everyone is responsible for his or her own sin. The sin of sex outside of wedlock doesn’t stop God’s success plans for the children conceived of these unions. Monique and baby Anthony Hunter Jr. survived Kisha’s persistent efforts to slay them. The Bible book of Judges chapter 11 records that Jephthah was born of a harlot, but the Spirit of the Lord came upon him; and he led the Israelites to defeat their enemies the Ammonites. God chose Solomon, another offspring of King David and Bathsheba, to rule Israel. God has purposes for all people.

Christians, be glad and thank God that our sins do not stop God from seeking us out for good things, and our sins do not sever God’s relationship with us at any point now or for all of eternity. Of course, we shouldn’t be trying to sin, thereby taking the grace of God for granted. Sin has consequences, and God will correct sin often using His body (the church) to bring the correction.

When you see sin in someone, as a Christian, stop and search inside for chesed and truth. God is chesed and truth, and God lives inside of all Christians. If you are jealous, angry or in some other negative emotion pray to God to clean your heart before trying to correct someone else. If you do not have a relationship with God, you cannot operate in chesed and truth; ask God, who is chesed and truth, to form a relationship with you. God is also a multiple of one as in 1 X 1 X 1 = 1 (God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit). When Jesus Christ died on a cross more than 2,000 years ago to pay the penalty of the sins of His people, He not only was satisfying God the Father’s requirement for justice, He was also making a way for human beings to have a now and eternal relationship with God and to actually have God live on the inside of His people (2 Timothy 1:14). John 17:3 (Amp) says, “³And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.” Ask God also to reveal Himself to Kisha, Anthony, Monique and Anthony Hunter Jr. and call them into relationship with Himself. God has a way of bringing multiple miracles out of messes.

June’s Prototype: Valeisha Butterfield, Deputy Director of Public Affairs for President Obama, and Chair of the Womenin Entertainment Empowerment Network.

Valeisha Butterfield’s life is the physical manifestation of what it means to step out on faith. Within her first year of law school at herfather’s alma mater, she knew her heart was not in being an attorney.Instead of Torts and Property, she was immersed in the study of theentertainment industry. That summer, she went up to New York for aninternship with a talent agency, and never went back. She was in lovewith entertainment and refused to live a dispassionate life.

I asked her, when did you fall in love with the entertainment industry?

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