An amped-up kid who kept yelling out “Born Sinner Platinum” looked particularly miffed. Before the listening, when LISNR reps asked if anyone was having any issues, dozens of hands set up. Wifi, on the “Born Sinner” network, of course, was provided for streaming via LISNR, but not everything went smoothly. With so many rappers claiming their music is “motion-picture shit,” it was a nice flourish. Cole says his new album cover has no spiritual meaning.At the NYC listening session, a few hundred fans, press and assorted VIPs packed into NYC’s SVA Theater in Chelsea, where Beats by Dre headphones were distributed for the ears and cartons of fancy flavored popcorn for the stomach. Cole continued the trend in pop culture of using satanic and occult imagery for his new album entitled “Born Sinner.” Cole, a protégé of Jay-Z, one of the biggest promoters of occult imagery and anti-Christian lyrics in entertainment today, is part of a growing number of entertainers who seek to normalize mocking Biblical themes while promoting sinful rebellion to society. “It’s not necessarily a church theme and it’s not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that’s going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it’s not even about religion.
It’s using that as canvas to get other messages across and that’s what the album will be.” – J. The artwork for Cole’s album employs symbolism that belies his own statements about the album. Cole? Satan?) with devil horns has a crown resting over his head. Here is more artwork used for Born Sinner.
“.for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” – 2 Corinthians 6:14. The “Born Sinner” logo is the shape of the Devil’s head. Cole is also holding a skull, an occult symbol, along with wearing what rappers call a “Jesus piece” – a necklace with a pendant of a distorted image of what is supposed to be the head of Jesus, on it, is somehow supposed to convey J. Scripture provides one of the reasons the symbol of the skull is so revered in the occult:Īnd he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. In the occult the skull is often explained as a symbol of passing from death to life or from ignorance to “enlightenment.” 33rd degree Freemason, Albert Pike, considered one of the greatest and most influential Freemasons of all time, wrote: The “place of the skull” is the name of the location where Jesus was crucified, what Satan and his fallen angelic army thought was their greatest victory (not knowing that Christ would rise from the dead three days later, winning salvation for all people who believe in Him). In the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University, it is their main emblem: “The Skull and cross bones are a continual reminder that the spiritual nature obtains liberation only after the philosophical death of man’s sensuous personality.” - Albert Pike (1809 – 1891),Īscending the various degrees and occult rites in Freemasonry other esoteric societies is how the initiate moves from “mere mortal” to godhood. The skull and bones symbol is all the rage in fashion today.Ĭole started his career by specifically targeting rap mogul Jay-Z and pressing him for a record deal. Yeah, I think about heaven sometimes, can’t wait to go And with his entry into rap stardom under Jay-Z’s mentorship, his music soon took on a spiritual tone. I said I might pray but ain’t no preying on me! So when you get to hell you can say you know me! Only time is when my friend up in a hearse!Ĭause boy I might pray but ain’t no preying on me! Gettin’ bent it’s been a minute since I been If it’s real will I even get in? – I ain’t fo’ sho’. So when you get to hell, you can say you know me! ( source). The only purpose of church is to attend funerals ( as opposed to actually worshiping God) but Satan is held up as a standard of comparison ( “I’m hot like Satan.”).
And Cole then brags that his reputation is so great he is even known in hell.