Minister Marion Hall, Formerly Lady Saw, Is Returning To Dancehall To ‘Win Souls’
Minister Marion Hall, formerly Lady Saw, says she is returning to Dancehall.
The ordained minister and gospel artiste has avoided the Dancehall space and accompanying discourses since baptising five years ago. But after spiritual advisor Nardo ‘RT Boss’ Smith accused her of practising obeah on deejay Spice two weeks ago, Hall said God is shaking up her purpose by sending her into Dancehall to win souls.
“You think God would call a woman like me who was so bad out there in the dancehall and just put me to sit down and not revisit the dancehall to win some souls?” she asked during her online Sunday service today.
“The devil is a liar, wherever he leads I will follow. A who tell dem fi call me out? They don’t understand my calling and if they don’t understand it it does not matter one bit to me God. They perplexed the wrong woman of God.”
Her sermon topic comes a few days after Mr. Vegas criticised her for responding to Smith. According to Vegas, if Hall was a true Christian, she would have avoided the controversy as the Bible instructs. He also mocked her upcoming diss record Mi Soon Alright, claiming the song’s style is indicative of her desire to “screechie back inna dancehall.” Hall addressed this.
“As soon as they hear, ‘Mi soon alright, mi soon alright’ them seh, ‘She gone back to being to Lady Saw’, oh, ‘She resurrect Lady Saw’ – no no no,” she said.
“Lady Saw spirit is dead but the spirit of the Lord is upon me so if I shout with a big voice like Lady Saw is it a problem? It was not a problem when I was shouting for the devil and I was giving the devil praise… I have a voice. God gave me this voice, God gave me a talent, I was just using it the wrong way singing all kinds of explicit songs but now I can come back into the dancehall and tear up some demons and cast out some spirits that don’t belong in there.”
She also addressed Facebook spiritualist Prophetess Divine who this week supported Smith’s claim that Hall was practising obeah when she was a dancehall artiste.
“She says she’s a seer and she saying this and that and she start to look attention from me but it’s not going to happen,” she said. “They’re using the opportunity with my name to run with it and get fame from it. As soon as we answer back, clap back, some of them have a problem with it. God don’t have a problem with it because God didn’t give me the spirit of fear… They called me out so I’m going out. I was invited into the dancehall so Minister Hall is returning to the dancehall to bring some people to Church Hall.”
Hall established her church, Holy Ghost Pentecostal, online this year, with the intention of building a physical church. She said an average 70,000 people fill her Facebook congregation every Sunday, whereas today marked her second week streaming on Instagram. Hall said the spiritual advisors are using slander to sully her ministry because of her weekly numbers.
She did, however, admit that Smith, through his accusations, disrupted her complacency in the Kingdom of God, which inspired her dancehall mission.
“I remember inna dancehall all kind of dirtiness but now that I have Christ who is in me, the holy spirit will guide me to deal with all that the enemy has set up and when I go in this time I am stronger. I am not looking from a physical lens, I am looking from a spiritual lens… If I have to go among the wolves, that is where I’m going… I’m not going in dancehall for money. I’m not going in there for the crown. I’m still there preaching but I’m going to do some songs.”
Prior to this undertaking, Hall developed her ministry from missions to Port Henderson Road (popularly known as back road), St Catherine’s Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre and the streets of Ocho Rios. She has also continued her annual give-back initiatives.
Hall, 51, started performing at the age of 15 and was probably best known for Lady Saw’s feature on No Doubt’s hit song, Underneath It All, for which she won a Grammy Award, becoming the first female dancehall DJ to get the honor. Saw was also known for her hits If Him Lef, Good Man, I’ve Got Your Man, Man Is The Least, and of course Sycamore Tree.