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okay, I’m bored so I’m gonna make a thread about the artist B-Slade ( formally known as Tonèx) and how he was black balled from the gospel/ Christian community.
Disclaimer: I’m not talking bad about the Christian community as i am apart of it as well, I’m just telling the story of B-Slade.
Anthony Charles Williams II is an American recording artist from San Diego, CA- He was one of the biggest gospel artist in the 2000s
The album that really put him on the map was called “ Pronounced Toe-Nay”. He brought a different element to gospel music. His music didn’t sound like the standard gospel music.
Here’s one of his performances: https://youtu.be/P7S8Krr27Y8 ">https://youtu.be/P7S8Krr27...
He is know for having his own unique style and stepping out of the box, which back then was hard to do in the gospel community.
But things would soon change. B-slade did an interview with Lexi television in 2009 to promote an album. But her line of questions lead him to come out. https://youtu.be/Yg5EhnbZqkA ">https://youtu.be/Yg5EhnbZq...
As you probably can figure out, this did not go well in the Christian community. Especially since at one point B-slade was married to a woman.
As he stated in the interview, him being attracted to men was NOT why him and his wife got a divorce!!!
after the interview, Tonéx disappeared. The public didn’t hear or see much of him. Until he came back into the spotlight as B-Slade. He did this so he would not just be associated as a “gospel artist” but as an artist overall.
and when i say “disappeared” i mean from mainstream music. He still created music under the name B-Slade.
Fun Fact: B-slade was one one the co-writers and singers of the theme song for “One on One”. https://youtu.be/htG3-HMsyoQ ">https://youtu.be/htG3-HMsy...
To this day B-slade has not stopped making music. (Including gospel)
Honestly, i wanted to make this thread to show that B-slade was really ahead of his time and people back then ( especially in the Christian/ gospel community) couldn’t and didn’t want to understand.
