TONEX RETIRES FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

[Nikkol]

I don't think that anyone has discussed this:

Sunday, January 22, 2006

TONEX RETIRES FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

(note: to hear the live interview on this topic go to

www.kjlhradio.com/tonex.htm


Salutations 2 all,

After long contemplation and much financial & emotional hardship I have decided that Tonex needs go on hiatus from the music industry. I have tried very hard to endure all that I can from being misunderstodd to being down right lied on and I don't physically or emotionally have the capacity to continue on anymore under the current circumstances. My record Label ZLG (Zomba Label Group) has repeatedly ignored my requests for help and they just don't get me as an artist. But I'm not blaming them, it's hard for anyone to really get me as an artist because I am not the normal type of artist. I bow out. And I don't know when I'm coming back.


Honestly I don't feel that I fit into anyone's catergory but my own, but in a world that's filled with labels, sections & catergories people can't function if they can't put you in a certain box.
I don't fit totally into Gospel because I don't sing JESUS JESUS JESUS all day and I don't fit into mainstream because I don't sing SEX SEX SEX all day either. I'm at a serious crossroads right now in life. And I don't have the answers. I cried and cried and cried last night to God for help because I can't go any further.

I'm not writing this so that people can feel sorry, I'm blogging my thoughts out. And I think I need to just bow out gracefully while I'm still on a fairly successful run off of OTB. I will continue to sell my projects online and things like that via YOTONEX but I think I need to just dissappear until I can find a place where I can live at least comfortably. Right now I am an 8 time Stellar Award winning , 2 time Dove award winning, Grammy nominated, Gold Selling artist with no furniture, Divorced, No chairs, No money. The label doesn't give me advances because my contract a is real wack. And they don't communicate.I don't know what else to say world.

What's funny is I still have people writing to me kicking me while I'm down. So now I say y'all can have it. Tonex will be out of your way once and for all. You win. Please congratulate Ex-Ministries, some Chick from England named Alexandria and a host of other so called Christians who have literally destroyed,defamated , embarrased and fatigue my life, my family and my spirit. I'm done y'all. Really. Sorry that I let some of you down but it wasn't intentional. I don't have ANY options right now so I have to do what I have to do which is "Nothing".
They don't even ask me what the real deal is but they use and twist my words for controversy sake to sell CD's DVD's and magazines. I had no idea Christians get down like this ?

Now the Gospel industry can finally be at rest because the funny guy isn't around any more.
Lauryn Hill said it best. " You superstar you Stupid star they hail you to nail you no matter who you are." Until I find peace and a real reason to get back in this game called the record business, I retire. I might still write for others and stuff like that but as for me and my house?,
y'all take it and have it because i've been nothing but slung in through the mud. I haven't done everything right, but what I 've been expericencing here recently is wrong.

My faith in Christianity is fading because I'm not understanding alot of "Christians" mentality when it comes to love. I have found nothing but anguish, lies, hatefulness and deception.
I believe in the Kingdom of God and I definitely believe in Jesus. But western civilization's version of Christ is very disturbing because they have totally disconnected Him from real life.
He lives in THEIR church and THEIR church only. I don't wanna hear any scriptures and I don't wanna hear any Oh, God's gonna bring you out type stuff right now. I need a miracle and I need it fast. I've still been pastoring and that's been the only thing that really brings me joy, to see others blessed. But now I'm at the point where I'm drained and I don't have the physical energy anymore to continue on. God gives me the strength to deliever a rhema word every week for others but it's crazy when you still need one yourself.

I see so many Gospel Artist that literally HATE each other and when I see them celebrated like oh God is so pleased with them and I'm just being me and now I'm the ANTI CHRIST ? I'm like y'all niggaz can have this. I can't take the fakeness no more. I'm wide open and now I'm like y'all take a hit cuz I ain't got nothing to lose. I've lost everything so you really can't hurt me anymore than I've already been hurt. And that's what hurts. So many people call themselves ministers but they don't minister they COMPETE. I'm gonna tell y'all the truth what you see on TV ain't real..... because if you're "real" then you're a sinner, if you're real then you're out of the will of God. But I don't have the energy to be fake. I never have been and I never will be.
Until God sends me a word through somebody for real that don't care that I'm Tonex but cares about the man of God who really needs the love of Christ to be demonstrated through a human being , I don't wanna hear it.

This is not a ploy to get you to worry about me or start more rumors; so let's clarify something right now......tonex is IS NOT leaving "Gospel" to go sing the dreaded "R&B". TONEX is retiring from an industry and religion that has completly stipped and cut and scarred his heart to the point he feels there's no repair. And yes I blame CHURCH FOLKS. You have caused so much hurt and pain to so many people that needed to see the Love of a Real Christ. I'm done with Church. I'm all about kingdom now. And in my pursuit of the real Jesus I leave your fictious, vindictive country club and cancel my membership to the industry and denounce it. I don't fit in and I don't want to. Whatever my mission is for God I wanna do it with the right heart and the right spirit. But that's just it I don't have a spirit right now. I'm too bruised to know what to feel.

Maybe one day someone with real discernment will know how to minister to someone like me right now. But if there was someone like that then I'm sure that Michael Jackson, Dennis Rodman, and some random heavily pierced skater on the beach would have experienced that real agape love by now. So until I find it , I've gotta get out of this matrix before I end up never wanting to sing again ever.

Thanx to every person that wrote to me and I do my best to write you all back because I want you to know that I'm a real person with real feelings and a real family. I read everything.
thanx to Yolanda Adams for being a real big sister to me. Kirk you really came through for me in Houston, I'm grateful. Judith McCallister thank u so much.

Until you hear from me again musically.

Kingdom Kulture Kool


2 each His own

7:27 AM - 561 Comments - 381 Kudos - Add Comment


The whole discussion can be seen HERE

[BEING QUIET]

You know in a way I can understand where he is coming from. How do get the strength to minister to others when you are so torn up. Praises due to God for that kind of strength.Tonex just needs prayer. But I don't feel sorry for him. I feel like he want genuineness someone who is truly walking in the narrow way.

[lanl ns]

Unfortunately, I can identify with how he is feeling.....Tonex hits on various topics that are so real but go unnoticed, or are not discussed............

Been there, my prayers are with him. I didn't know anything was going on with him....

[stillfocused nsi]

Tonex..is really a low place. Yet, it's place where God will give him the strength the stand and declare what he asked that he speak..no matter who likes it or him. People want to see Jesus..not just in words, yet, in every aspect of our lives. This young man is in a place where many believers don't want to go and for some they don't can't go. May God continue to strengthen him during this lonely season of his life.

[Nikkol]

At the same time, if he's in this "low place", the LAST thing that he should be doing is pastoring his father's church........ for that same hurt, etc. you feel can go across to the rest of the congregation.

[stillfocused1]

And by low..I mean a valley place where he is in transition..and God is doing a work in his life that cannot be seen by men..because he has hidden from their view. Because knows that in this place if seen many would seek to destroy him. I cannot say he shouldn't be Pastoring his Father's church. Do Jesus tell Peter to sit down while the enemy shifted him ? No, he told that he would pray for him and that when it was over that he strenghten his brothers. I really don't have much to say regarding that because just maybe the Lord told him to continue to minister to these people.

[BEING QUIET]

Though He Slay me Yet will I trust him

[krazeeboi]

After Tonex comes out of this, the world had better watch out...

[jasmine nsi]

for sure!

[Nikkol]

With some people, they have stated that they were glad that he was not in the business. Not because they didn't like him but rather so that he could be about "His ministry" rather than the gospel industry. However, that goes into a lot of other "possible posts" regarding the gospel industry itself.

[elderbeck NSI]

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

[Grace]

I feel for him. He needs encouragement and prayer. Like on eposter said Thou you slay me yet will I trust you. He really needs to begin to live that out. RIght now the saints are going through horrible and terrible things. Things so hard that many don't think they can make it. But I am here to say the devil is a liar. We can make it! The enemy is out to destroy us. And he is after our faith. Saints we gotta hold on.

Lets keep him in prayer. Lord touch him roght now and give him strength, but father let him see you even in the midst of his hurt and disappointment.

Amen

[MsKayLander]

electladynb said:

At the same time, if he's in this "low place", the LAST thing that he should be doing is pastoring his father's church........ for that same hurt, etc. you feel can go across to the rest of the congregation.

Do you know how many people are in a valley experience and GOD still gives them enough strength to minister His word? I have been dealing with a sickness for the last 10 years, when I can't get a word for MYSELF, GOD sends SOMEBODY for me to give a word to...when you don't focus on yourself sometimes you can help somebody else...

Just my opinion...

[ybrown]

misskaylander said:

electladynb said:

At the same time, if he's in this "low place", the LAST thing that he should be doing is pastoring his father's church........ for that same hurt, etc. you feel can go across to the rest of the congregation.

Do you know how many people are in a valley experience and GOD still gives them enough strength to minister His word? I have been dealing with a sickness for the last 10 years, when I can't get a word for MYSELF, GOD sends SOMEBODY for me to give a word to...when you don't focus on yourself sometimes you can help somebody else...

Just my opinion...

Amen.

[lanl ns]

misskaylander said:

electladynb said:

At the same time, if he's in this "low place", the LAST thing that he should be doing is pastoring his father's church........ for that same hurt, etc. you feel can go across to the rest of the congregation.

Do you know how many people are in a valley experience and GOD still gives them enough strength to minister His word? I have been dealing with a sickness for the last 10 years, when I can't get a word for MYSELF, GOD sends SOMEBODY for me to give a word to...when you don't focus on yourself sometimes you can help somebody else...

Just my opinion...

That's a good opinion to have!!!