For our latest edition of ABW Interviews we have the one and only @Judge_Judah . Whenever you're ready let us know where you're from and how it was growing up there fam.
ABW Interviews: Judge Judah
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This is going to be an amazing interview.
when Khia comes on, Judah gets quiet on the neck part and just says his back
JUDAH
OG
I'm at work today so bear with me. I have a feeling it's going to be slow motion so I'll try to get through this as timely ad possible.
But I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its one of the three largest cities in Ohio being Cleveland and Columbus, so it's lile most large cities across the United States.
For me, I had a pretty diverse upbringing. My mother was one of four, so I have a lot of cousins on her side. My pops was an only child, but my grandmother was one of 14, so he has close to 50 first cousins and they all had multiple children. So I'm still meeting family members I've never met before. I'm close to a few of them that I grew up with, but there's way too many of them lol.
But I had a pretty diverse upbringing. Mothers family is from South Carolina and Tennesse and my father's side is from Alabama. They all moved to Cincinnati for jobs. Lived downtown until they got their bread up and moved to the suburbs. So, naturally, when my parents got married and had me and my brother, we lived close to our grandparents. I'm the oldest and my parents bought a house in the city wheb I was like 10. Up until then, I went to a local school where I was like one of maybe 13 black kids in a majority white school district.
So then we moved to the city and then I went to schools thag were majority black. My parents said theu moved where theu did to give us balance. And I actually appreciate the move because I felt I prepared me for the world a lot better than I would have been if we said where we were at previously.
But Cincinnati as a whole is really a pretty segregated city. You have really nice areas bordering the "hood". And a lot of very nice houses in places where mostly minorities live because of "white flight". But the city is starting to invest money back in the city and gentrification is starting to happen.
Not a lot of traditional gangs, but a lot of territorial violence based on neighborhood affiliation. Cincinnati used to be a in top of the list for murders about 10-15 years ago (not glorifying), but it's called down some recently. I've always managed to stay out of the madness, mainly due to my parents, grandparents, and older cousins making sure I didn't get caught up.
But overall, it's a decent city.
But I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its one of the three largest cities in Ohio being Cleveland and Columbus, so it's lile most large cities across the United States.
For me, I had a pretty diverse upbringing. My mother was one of four, so I have a lot of cousins on her side. My pops was an only child, but my grandmother was one of 14, so he has close to 50 first cousins and they all had multiple children. So I'm still meeting family members I've never met before. I'm close to a few of them that I grew up with, but there's way too many of them lol.
But I had a pretty diverse upbringing. Mothers family is from South Carolina and Tennesse and my father's side is from Alabama. They all moved to Cincinnati for jobs. Lived downtown until they got their bread up and moved to the suburbs. So, naturally, when my parents got married and had me and my brother, we lived close to our grandparents. I'm the oldest and my parents bought a house in the city wheb I was like 10. Up until then, I went to a local school where I was like one of maybe 13 black kids in a majority white school district.
So then we moved to the city and then I went to schools thag were majority black. My parents said theu moved where theu did to give us balance. And I actually appreciate the move because I felt I prepared me for the world a lot better than I would have been if we said where we were at previously.
But Cincinnati as a whole is really a pretty segregated city. You have really nice areas bordering the "hood". And a lot of very nice houses in places where mostly minorities live because of "white flight". But the city is starting to invest money back in the city and gentrification is starting to happen.
Not a lot of traditional gangs, but a lot of territorial violence based on neighborhood affiliation. Cincinnati used to be a in top of the list for murders about 10-15 years ago (not glorifying), but it's called down some recently. I've always managed to stay out of the madness, mainly due to my parents, grandparents, and older cousins making sure I didn't get caught up.
But overall, it's a decent city.
JUDAH
OG
JUDAH
OG
But that got pretty long so I broke it up.
There's a lot to do in the city though. While it's obvious it's not like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, or New Orleans, it's defiantly one of the best cities to visit in Ohio.
Bar/Club scene is pretty diverse. Downtown, whole there has always been a lot to Do, they have built it up in an effort to make it more attractive and to get people to start moving back onto the city. We don't have a subway, but they recently built a street car to make travel a little easier through the heavy downtown traffic. We a have a lot of diverse restaurants, a number of which that have been featured on diners dives and drives and other television shows. Kings Island is our large amusement park that a lot of people visit the city to go to. We also have one of the best Zoos in the nation.
There's a lot to do in the city though. While it's obvious it's not like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, or New Orleans, it's defiantly one of the best cities to visit in Ohio.
Bar/Club scene is pretty diverse. Downtown, whole there has always been a lot to Do, they have built it up in an effort to make it more attractive and to get people to start moving back onto the city. We don't have a subway, but they recently built a street car to make travel a little easier through the heavy downtown traffic. We a have a lot of diverse restaurants, a number of which that have been featured on diners dives and drives and other television shows. Kings Island is our large amusement park that a lot of people visit the city to go to. We also have one of the best Zoos in the nation.
Great breakdown.
Are your parents muslim? If not, how did you get introduced to that lifestyle or the "im an Israelite" frame of thinking?
JUDAH
OG
My parents are "Christian". And I use that term lightly lol. My pops never really was the church going type, he is one of those people that believes in a higher power, but doesn't agree with traditional religion. And my mom went to church faithfully as a child, but stopped going as an adult. So she used to take us up until I was about 8 or 9. I was baptised and went to bible study faithfully up until that time.
So even though my parents didn't take me any longer, It was something I was interested in and continued reading my bible and searching on my own as much as a child could. But I got to a point where do had questions that my parents couldn't answer, so I eventually left it alone.
It wasnt until i went to college and was on my own that I decided to "find God" for myself. I got baptised a second time on my own accord and searched for a church, but wasn't having any luck finding any church of substance IMO. I've tried to take my spirituality seriously, and I think it's because of the foundation my mother and grandmother who I spent a lot of time with laid. So I did a lot of self studying and prayer at home asking TMH to help me find a place for spiritual growth and a teacher to aid in my studies. Low and behold, I came across The Gathering of Christ Church and their videos online.
I coildnt believe what these brothers were saying. And the fact that i was so new to studying helped me break down thoss normal mental barriers most of us have when challeneged woth a new idea. But the more i studied and corsse checled history and scripture , the more it began to make sense. And I still remember the day i sat down with tears in my eyes feeling lost askong for the Most High to help me. It wasnt a coincodence that i found those videos and the church...
Thus began my identification as a Hebrew Israelite.
Sorry for the delay, I had to school these niggas on hiphop for sec. But yea, for those of us who aren't educated on Hebrew Israelites, what are some of the beliefs yall have that differs from Christianity?
JUDAH
OG
So there a a number of difference. So for the sake of time, I'll only go through a few.
Levitical Dietary law. Basicaly no shellfish, pork, and certain types of fish.
So most Christians don't follow the dietary laws in Leviticus 11. I believe the justification is that all the Old Testament laws have no merit after Christ's crucifixion. This is another long discussion I won't go into right now. And they also mention Peters dream in Acts 10 where TMH told him to "Rise and Eat" unclean animals. But he was confuses by the dream as well. Later on in the chapter he meets Cornelius, a Roman man that was baptised into the faith. It was tradition to not done with a "Gentile" back then. But Cornelius was no longer a gentile by faith. And that's when Peter realized what the dream represented. Evident later in the chapter when he said,
"You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean" (verse 28). "
Also, the idea that all "black" people decend from Ham, one of Noahs three sons. If you've ever heard of the "Curse of Ham" then you will understand why people say this. But we believe that most of the tribes choosen to cross the Atlantic in the Transatlantic slave trade and other times through history where not enslaved by chance, but chosen for disobedience to the laws of their ancestors. Described in the curses of Deuteronomy 28.
So many of us are of Shem, not Ham.
That's deep. Hopefully we can make a thread that will allow you and our other Israelites to go into more details to educate everyone here who wants to be.
But I do have a question regarding the latter part of your post. So are you saying that all of the slaves who were brought here during the transatlantic slave trade were criminals in a sense and we're all descendants of them?
Following question, does your wife share the same ideologies? If not, how does that work?
JUDAH
OG
I'd love to make a thread about it. If you remember Waterproof from the IC, he low-key made of the best threads about Hebrew Isrealites I've ever seen online in the R&R. It may still be there.
But I wouldn't use the word criminals lol. But basically throughout time, the Isrealites were always held to a higher standard than the rest of the "Gentile" nations because they were the ones chosen to teach the rest of the nations. But due to disobedience of the law, they also suffered the hardest throughout history. I like it to having two children. One that is older and you have constantly told what you expect of them and what they should and shouldn't do. Then a younger child that you haven't had a chance to teach yet. If they both make the same mistake, you are going to be more upset with the child that should have kmown better as opposed to the child that didn't.
That's the story of the Isrealites in a nutshell. And the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28 In context explain our collective situation present day.
My wife believes, but she has her reservations. And I respect it bwcause who I am today is not who I was when we first got togther. I think she is observant more due to the fact that I'm her husband than understanding, but I'm working on it with her. It just makes me more appreciative and live her even more for it though. And she allows me to teach my son as well.
But I'm on the fence about it. I teach him, but I'm not going to force it on him. If he is going to follow the Most High in the way I am, it has to come on his own accord. I can only lay the foundation.
Great answers. As we all know you're married. If you can, explain how you met your wife and what made you want to take it to the level of marriage. With so many women out here, the thought of marriage is crazy to a lot of brothas, so if you can, explain that time and the frame of mind you were in.
JUDAH
OG
So it's crazy how we got together. Technically, we've known each other for since we were 12. Went to Jr high together, but really didn't know each other. Like we knew who the other person was, but we didn't really have any classes together.
We met back up freshman year of college. Just so happened to meet again through a mutual friend. Got together summer after that first Year And basically been together with a short breakup lol.
But we had an untraditional relationship. We finally got married almost 4 years ago. But I knew I wanted to marry her years ago, but we were broke and I wanted to give her the wedding we wanted. But honestly, spiritually we've been married for year. I knew she was gonna be my wife the first Year of my realtionship.
She got pregnant with my son our junior year. We got an apartment and grinded to finish school, hold down the house amd male sure our son was good.
Seeing her go to full school time, work part time all while breastfeeding and still making time to make sure we were still having fun solidified it for me bruh. She is an awesome woman and I feel like I hit the jackpot bruh. A lot of women would have quit school or been depressed because honestly the odds weren't in our favor, but we made it work and now we are straight. Careers, homeowners, and our son is 8.
She made it easy to want to marry her. But honestly the only advice I can give other brothers is if you are blessed enough to find a woman selfless enough to want the best for you as her S/O and her self, don't let the at go or mess it up.
Judge Dread
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Big Respect to you @Judge_Judah
Another great answer.
I have a couple questions in response to your last post.
1. If you don't mind answering, you mentioned a short break up, why did yall break up?
2. With being a veteran from the IC and now here, you've come across a good amount of attractive women who I'm sure have done a good amount of flirting with you, have you ever been tempted by any of em? If so, who made you think twice?
I have a couple questions in response to your last post.
1. If you don't mind answering, you mentioned a short break up, why did yall break up?
2. With being a veteran from the IC and now here, you've come across a good amount of attractive women who I'm sure have done a good amount of flirting with you, have you ever been tempted by any of em? If so, who made you think twice?
Judge Dread
Active Member
JUDAH
OG
So the breakup was pretty early in our relationship. I mentioned it before, but basically it was me cheating. I aint gonna go into all the details, but I was a situation that happened after a threesome (young & dumb). We were able to work past I though.
And when it comes to the IC and women, I've never taken it there with any of them really. There was a time when my now wife and I were broken up for a year that I was in a few inboxes I aint gonna name lol...but it never amounted to anything because i really loved my wife and wanted to make it work for many different reasons.
And it did and I thank The Most High everyday it did.