Puff Daddy’s First Rap Artist Craig Mack is Now Part of a Religious Cult! The Real Story! [audio]

This is by far the craziest story of the day.  No, “f” that,  of the entire week.  Today on Hot 97, I heard the clip and had to find it and listen to it again for myself.  Let me take a few steps back….

WHO IS CRAIG MACK  YOU ASK?

Craig Mack was the first artist ever to sign with Diddy, back when he was Puffy aka Puff Daddy.  He started Bad Boy Entertainment and and signed then unknown Craig Mack back in 1994.  Mack dropped a singled called “Flava in ya Ear” that was sick! Super sick.  You could hear that song bumpin in every car that drove by.  In what would be one of the secrets to Puffy’s success, they did a remix of the song.  It featured none other then The Notorious B.I.G. This is what blew Biggie to stardom.  So in essence he is the man that helped launch the career of one of the greatest rappers of all time.

After releasing his first album which went gold he released a second one called “Operation : Get Down”.  I brought both, I still have both.  Dude’s flow was insane.  After B.I.G. blew up, Mack fell back and disappeared, just to reappear in 2012 as part of a cult!!

THE OVERCOMER MINISTRY

This is truly creepy.  Their  website is Over Comer Ministry.org.  Everyone is calling it a cult…I’m not sure if it’s accurate but that’s what it feels like.  The whole place is run by a preacher named “Brother R.G. Stair”.  

OK MAYBE IT’S A CULT!

Brother Stair brought a motel in Walterboro, South Carolina back in 1978 and somehow was able to convince people to sell everything they owned and take a vow of poverty and move to the motel.  Since then he has been able to get more and more families, of different ages and races to denounce their belongings and move to the compound. The motel at capacity they began to move in mobile homes and even built houses.  The kids learn in a one room school house and everyone eats communal meals.  The compound is totally self-sustaining where they make and grow their own food, they make their own clothes and the dress is ultra conservative.  Long dresses for the women, and collared shirts for the men.  It’s just like “Little House on the Prairie”, but sprinkled with some black people!

Brother R.G. Stair

Despite the vow of poverty Stair is able to collect huge donations, sometimes totaling $100K per month, but the ministry doesn’t even break even because his sermons play on radio where airtime costs are around $1 Million dollars.

He’s been accused of running a Jim Jones type of cult.  They do not accept medical help and as a consequence he has been charged with some infant deaths.   Upon investigations after allegations stating that people couldn’t leave because Stair controlled their finances authorities concluded that there were no wrong doing.

SEXUAL MIS-CONDUCT AT AGE 69!

Back in 2002, Stair was charged with sexual misconduct.  Two women who lived on the compound said that Stair basically coerced them by “enforcing his religious/ personal beliefs” on them resulting in them getting touched in appropriately.  Stair pleaded to a lesser charge of assault and battery and did 77 days in jail.

This incident divided the compound where 40 members decided to leave.  Somehow the now 79 year old Stair has been able to holding things together.

CRAIG MACK

Insert Craig Mack!  A rapper with a voice that can’t be mistaken is heard on this audio clip.  He is living on this compound!  It’s hard to believe, but when you hear the voice you know for a fact that it’s him.   He is there on the compound, that just blows my mind!  I would give anything or a picture of Craig Mack, in homemade clothes doing farm work.  But for now, I will just have to settle for this audio clip!  Also have pictures from the compound!