MC 900 Ft. Jesus is the stage name of Mark Griffin, a classically-trained musician[citation needed] turned rapper and experimental musician born in Dallas, Texas. Griffin's stage name came from a sermon by Oral Roberts, in which the televangelist claimed that he had received a vision of a 900-foot-tall (270 m) Jesus, who commanded him to build a hospital on the campus of Oral Roberts University. Griffin's first album, Hell With The Lid Off (1989) was released under the name "MC 900 Ft. Jesus With DJ Zero",...