WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BIBLICAL MARY MAGDALENE?

Mary Magdalene is a Kenyan song by Johnny Span-one and Kunta. The song is a fictional story about a girl who gets defiled and defamed by her boyfriend when she leaves him to pursue a new relationship with the character portrayed by Johnny Span One in the song. The artists go on to name the girl Mary Magdalene in the chorus. This is done to relate her predicament to the circumstances that befell the biblical character she is named after. The Biblical Mary Magdalene is a woman whose character has been defamed falsely. All through later history, the very spreaders of the gospel claimed she was a prostitute. Surprisingly enough, the claim is not supported nor implied in the Holy book. The clergymen only propagated the rumor because the Bible also shows her close relationship with Jesus, which rubbed them wrongly. The preachers did not favor the idea of a woman being too close to their spiritual father. Kunta in verse 3 takes the role of the jealous boyfriend and tries to explain the character's take on the story. He ends his verse by comparing the girl to Kenyan hip hop, which also has always been defamed unjustly by artists and fans alike when it didn't serve their particular agendas. The song was created to show support to Kenyan hip-hop and for the plight of mistreated and misjudged women in our society.

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