PJ Morton is profiled in an article on EEW.
PJ Morton, the son of Bishop Paul & Pastor Debra Morton, is signed to Lil Wayne’s Young Money label and is a keyboardist for pop group Maroon 5, opened up about the weed-smoking, wild-partying atmosphere of his label home.
“Well it’s smoky in the studio anytime you’re with Wayne,” Morton told NBC’s TheGrio.com in an interview. “There’s women around and it’s a party.”
The party, unfortunately, recently spilled over onto the Grammy, Stellar, and Dove award winner's single “Lover,” that features a profanity-filled, offensive verse by Lil Wayne.
The song’s premise is that Morton is a “lover, not a fighter” who has grown tired of arguing and fussing in his relationship. But that message is overshadowed in the explicit version, which includes a base rap delivered by “Lil Tunechi.”
Morton allowed the vulgar lyricist to debase his music—something he once told EEW Magazine President & CEO, Dianna Hobbs, he would never do.
Lil Wayne guest raps on PJ Morton’s “Lover” single and appears in the Young Money artist’s video.
In a November 2009 exclusive with EEW, Morton and Hobbs chatted at length and told the award-winning faith-based media specialist he simply wanted to sing about love, but would never release music that undermined his Christian lifestyle or betrayed his mission to perform exclusively clean R&B.
“I think songs should reflect the way you live,” said the author of Why Can't I Sing About Love? The Truth About The "Church" Against "Secular" Music, adding, “I want to be like Jesus and I want my heart to be right.”
But when Morton allows Wayne to include such vulgar lyrics is that something Jesus would do?
According to him, when it comes to going back and forth between genres, specifically pop & R&B, “It’s really not that big of a difference actually. Once you get past the lyrical content, all bands are a certain level of pop (music).”
But, “getting past the content,” is something a core group of Morton’s previous gospel followers can’t seem to do these days.
Many are left wondering, how far is too far?
