The album also received three GRAMMY Awards, a BET Award, and NAACP Image Award. His most recent album, Kingdom Book One (Tribl Records, Fo Yo Soul Entertainment, and RCA Inspiration), a live, collaboration album with the gospel group Maverick City Music, was recorded at the Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami-Dade, Florida, to raise awareness on the injustice of mass incarceration and debuted at number two on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart and the Top Gospel Albums chart.

Since bursting onto the scene in 1993 with the release of his critically acclaimed debut album Kirk Franklin & The Family, Franklin has blessed the world with hit after hit, a bevy of award-winning, lauded albums (in addition to multiple GRAMMYs, he has garnered nearly 40 Stellar Awards and is a 22-time Dove Award winner), and a plethora of epic collaborations with artists such as Mariah Carey, Lil’ Baby, Chance the Rapper, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Khalid, and Michael Jackson. Franklin closes out the album with “Somebody’s Son” a deeply moving and touching song where he candidly expresses the heartbreak and pain he’s felt throughout his life (especially most recently) due to the familial trauma he’s endured. Gospel royalty such as Chandler Moore, Tori Kelly, Jonathan McReynolds, and Jekalyn Carr join Franklin on the exhilarating track “Again,” while Kelontae Gavin and Maranda Curtis lend their vocals to its sequel “Again & Again,” with both songs rejoicing in how no matter what, God will continuously move mountains for you. “Needs” is an authentic, comforting gospel ballad that delves into the need of God in one’s life. The second single, “Try Love,” which will be released in late August, is an uplifting song with a rousing chorus that goes: “ This is your day love/This is the day that you can’t give away love/ I’ve been waiting all day love/Waiting for your embrace love,” before switching gears midway into a funky R&B throwback. The lead single, “All Things,” released in May 2023 with an official video, is a bold, upbeat, soul-stirring track that is a reminder that God is what makes everything and all things possible. As of 2018, Ja Rule has sold 14.4 million units in the US and has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Ja Rule followed up with his respective fourth, fifth and sixth albums “ The Last Temptation” (2002), “ Blood in My Eye” (2003), and “ R.U.L.E ”. (2004), with “ The Last Temptation” attaining platinum status and “ R.U.L.E.“ reaching gold status. Both albums topped the US Billboard 200 album chart, launching him into the mainstream, selling over a combined 15 million units to a worldwide audience. His 3 rd released album came right behind this successful movement in October 2001 titled “ Pain Is Love” on this album he delivered “ Living It Up”, “ Down Ass Chick” and the Billboard No 1 hit “ Always On Time”. He followed this with a couple of singles with Jennifer Lopez “ I’m Real” – “ I’m Real – Murder Remix” and “ Ain’t That Funny“ all of which placed in Billboard top 20. Kicking off chart topping hits “ Between Me and You”, “ Put It On Me “and “ I Cry”. He released his respective second album “ Rule 3:36” (2000), the album was a commercial success, selling 276,000 copies during its first week of release and debuting at number one on the Billboard 200. Following the release of his debut album “ Venni Vetti Vecci” (1999), and its lead single “ Holla Holla”, the album was Certified Platinum July 1999.

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