“Again I ask heaven was hell or vice versa/would you start doin’ evil in order to nurture” -Pastor Troy

Yet Pastor Troy, a southern rapper, questions everything from the beginning of his long verse on this classic record. As we got older we were able to develop our own beliefs based on life experiences, world events, and many other things (religion is always a circus freak show to talk about between my brother and my mom at Thanksgiving). It wasn’t necessarily the notion of us questioning if it was the right thing to believe in, moreso the demand of going so many times that we opted not to attend once we were able to make decisions for ourselves. My brother and I were in church three times a week while living with my mom. Any sort of a challenge is looked at as disrespectful rather than discussion on why someone’s belief system is like this. What if heaven is really hell? Could you imagine believing one thing for your entire life that’s supposed to be good, only to end up being lied to and it being the worst fate you could imagine for the after life? We’re brought up to believe what we’re taught at young ages are absolutely right but aren’t taught to question them.

“What if heaven was hell and vice versa? If I told you go to hell would you tell I cursed ya?” PT Cruiser begins the Carl Mo produced record, offering a thought provoking question. The Atlanta, GA rapper didn’t garner much commercial success during his career but ‘Vice Versa’ will go down as his Mona Lisa. Unless you’re a Hip-Hop enthusiast or a fan of southern Hip-Hop you may have never heard of Pastor Troy. ‘Vice Versa’ is a record that is criminally slept on.

Vice versa song