“Yaves is a father. Yaves is a voice for the voiceless and Yaves is a believer through and through.”

Columbus, Ohio artist Yaves has a new album called Rich Young Ruler. The project is inspired by the story of the rich young ruler or rich young man that is described in three of the four gospels. A rich young man comes to Jesus and tells him that he follows all the commandments, and asks what must he do to enter the kingdom of Heaven.

“Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.” – Mark 10:21-22 (NIV)

Yaves has often considered what may have happened to the rich young ruler after his encounter with Jesus. “I began to look at my own life and I’ve had a great number of successes, not just in music, just in life. I’ve been able to accumulate wealth by making great business decisions. I’ve been blessed to have what I need. I began to realize a lot of times I find myself being like the rich young ruler.”

Having reflected on the subject, Yaves says that there are things he does not want to part with that can stop him from pursuing greater holiness.

“I believe we live in a culture that is rich in technology, that’s rich in time, that’s rich in youth. A lot of times God is like ‘Give me your youth. Give me you. Give me you now.’ And we’re like ‘Nah, I want to keep it for myself.’”

Through listening to the album, Yaves wants his audience to consider how they can be like the rich young ruler so that they can recognize their flaws and follow Jesus as He would want them to.

“Everything came really naturally. It gave me the chance to kind of vent in a sense and to kind of speak from a real place. I put myself in not only the rich young ruler’s shoes, but in the shoes of people who made music their idol.”

“I made sure with this project I kept everything Columbus.” Fellow Columbus, Ohio artist Armond WakeUp did the intro of Rich Young Ruler. “I explained to him what I was going for, the feel of the album, and he created a dope spoken word for it.”

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“I think we give Judas a bad rap. Even though I know he betrayed Jesus, I think a lot of times we display the characteristics of a Judas by the way we crucify Jesus Christ over and over and over again by willfully sinning.”

He wants each Christian to recognize that they need mercy for their own sins, and along with that they must forgive others who have harmed them.  The song describes individual people who have stories of betrayal. “We all have some characteristics that need to be worked on, and only Jesus Christ can really save us; none of us are above that.”

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