This week, a sermon from Daddy Yankee went on social media in which he said that he rejected an offer of 150 million dollars for God.
The singer, now also a preacher, said that they offered him that money for his tour, the second best-selling of urban artists, but he said no after speaking with Jesus.
“When they made me the offer of $150 million dollars, Jesus told me what are you going to do? You are free, you can make decisions (…) And I, sir… and the sir, yes, he can catch them, but you know, I am not going to be in your presence, I am not going to be in your life, you are going to continue being a slave to what you most you love (…) but I said, what does it profit a man to win the world? About what? Amen. I said, above all is my lord. “Here is the acid test,” Yankee said in a sermon that went viral this week.
$150 million is a significant amount, but Daddy Yankee’s net worth is not negligible either, since a year before he left music, in 2022, it was estimated at $40 million. Although it must be higher now, especially if you take into account that he was being offered such a large amount of money for a tour like the one he did in 2023, before retiring.
Beyond the calculations, the anecdotes related to money have served Yankee to prove the determination of his faith in God before his parishioners.
“Today I might be on a tour making millions of dollars, but I am here completely free and I have a joy that the world has not given me,” he said last March before the parishioners of the Refugees in Their Presence church.
That time he mentioned an episode that happened to him in Colombia and that apparently renewed his faith in God and led him, finally, to retire from music.
“One day I am in Colombia, on the verge of death… And I can tell you about the experience of seeing the angel of death. “God did a miracle with me when I was little… So, God was not far away, he was always close (…) God gave me a second chance and here I am fulfilling my promise: To take his word to every corner of this world,” he also said. .
