Een boodschap over het kruis van Christus door Billy Graham en Lecrae

Gezien bij Justin Taylor.

Tell the world - Lecrae

... What is a man, huh? that you're mindful of em?
And what do I have to deserve this love? ...

TELL THE WORLD (Lecrae met Mali Music)

(Chorus)
Now I'mma tell the world, tell em
I'mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell em
Yea I'mma billboard
Tell the world, tell em
Cast Him like a radio
Tell the world you are to know
I'm brand new

(Verse 1)
Uh, I know one thing's true
I don't even really deserve to know you
But I... I'm a witness that you did this
And I'm brand new so I... I'm ready to go
And I'mma tell the world what they need to know
A slave to myself but you let me go
I tried gettin high but it left me low
You did, what they could never do
You cleaned up my soul and gave me life, I'm so brand new
And that's all that matters
I aint love you first, but you first loved me
In my heart I cursed ya, but you set me free
I gave you no reason to give me new seasons, to give me new life, new
Breathin
But you hung there bleedin
And you died for my lies, and my cheatin, my lust, and my greedin
What is a man, huh? that you're mindful of em?
And what do I have to deserve this love?

(Chorus)
Tryna make the moments last
Holdin on to the past
But like a hero in a dream
Christ came and He rescused me!
Now I'mma tell the world, tell the world, tell em
I'mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell em
Yea I'mma billboard
Tell the world, tell em
Cast Him like a radio
Tell the world you are to know
I'm brand new

(Verse 2)
I can't offer you nothin, but your care and kindness keep comin
And your love is so unconditional, I get butterflies in my stomach
I got the old me in the rearview, gotta new me, gotta clear view
I was so dead, I couldn't hear you
Too deep in sin to come near you
But you drew me in, and cleaned me up
And take me home and beamed me up
Before you do, just let me tell the truth
And let these folks know that I done seeing your love
And it's everlastin, infinite
It goes on and on, you can't measure it
Can't quench your love, they can't separate us from the love of God
It's no estimate
My face look the same, my frame done rearranged
But I changed, I promise I aint the same
Your love is so deep, you suffered and took pain
And died on the cross to gimme a new name
Aint nothin like I seen before
I gotta beam to glow
Was low, down, and dirty but you cleaned me Lord
You looked after me, you keep rockin me
Imma tell the world and aint nobody stoppin me

(Chorus)
Tryna make the moments last
Holdin on to the past
But like a hero in a dream
Christ came and He rescused me!
Now I'mma tell the world, tell the world, tell em
I'mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell em
Yea I'mma billboard
Tell the world, tell em
Cast Him like a radio
Tell the world you are to know
I'm brand new

(Verse 3; 2 Corinthians 5:17)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
He is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Yea, I'm brand new

(Chorus)
Now I'mma tell the world, tell the world, tell em
I'mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell em
Yea I'mma billboard
Tell the world, tell em
Cast Him like a radio
Tell the world you are to know
I'm brand new

Lecrae aan de top van de iTunes hitlijsten met 'Gravity'

Een christelijk artiest heeft voor het eerst de top van de iTunes hitlijsten bereikt.
De gloednieuwe 'Gravity' van hiphopper Lecrae (Moore) kwam meteen binnen op nummer 1 op dinsdag 4 september 2012.

Op de Gospel Coalition Blog lees je een uitgebreide recensie van Lecrae's 'Gravity'.

Uit die bespreking neem ik gewoon de aanhaling uit track 14 over, 'Tell the world'; Heel wat theologie verpakt in slechts enkele verzen:

I can't offer you nothin', but your care & kindness keeps comin'
And your love is so unconditional, I get butterflies in my stomach
I got the old me in the rearview, now the new me got a clear view
And I was so dead, I couldn't hear you, too deep in sin to come near you
. . . My face look the same, my frame ain't rearranged, but I'm changed; I promise I ain't the same
Your love's so deep you suffered and took pain, you died on the cross to give me a new name
Ain't nothing like I've seen before, I got a beaming glow
I was low, down, and dirty, but you cleaned me, Lord
You adopted me, you keep rocking me
I'mma tell the world, and ain't nobody stopping me!

Nieuw Lecrae-album: The Overdose

Vanaf morgen (11 januari) is het nieuwe album van hiphopper Lecrae te koop: 'The Overdose'.

Hier lees en zie je het interview dat blogger Justin Taylor met Lecrae en Trip Lee had. Je leest er onder meer dat Trip Lee een break in zijn muzikale carrière inlast om zich beter voor te bereiden op een pastorale taak.

Dit zijn de thema's die aan bod komen in het interview van meer dan 50 minuten, zodat je op het filmpje kunt switchen naar de voor jou interessantste gedeeltes:

00:00—3:35 // Trip’s testimony
3:35—9:00 // Lecrae’s testimony
9:00—12:35 // Trip’s path from conversion to today
12:35—16:20 // Lecrae’s path from conversion to today
16:20—17:45 // Lecrae on Reach Records and Reach Life as soundtrack and resources for the movement
17:45—21:35 // Trip on hip-hop as an in-your-face content-heavy art form
21:35—25:11 // Lecrae gives an example of content-packing from “Don’t Waste Your Life”
25:11—27:15 // Lecrae on the origins of Christian rap
27:15—28:57 // Lecrae on the poetical elements of the genre
28:57—30:00 // Trip gives an example from his songs
30:00—32:50 // Lecrae on Reformed theology and race relations
32:50—33:55 // Trip on the diversity of their audience
33:55—36:40 // Lecrae and Trip on being an indigenous missionaries to the urban culture and Reformed theology
36:40—38:00 // Trip on what’s next for him in the next five years
38:00—41:55 // Lecrae on what’s next for him and the opportunities ahead in the cities
41:55—46:20 // Trip and Lecrae on the need to deflect adulation from fans
46:20—47:15 // Trip on Christian hip-hop as one stream of the Reformed resurgence
47:15—49:05 // Lecrae on how folks can be praying for them


Via deze link bij Rapzilla kun je al vooraf eens luisteren naar het nieuwe Lecrae-album.

Meer info voor aanschaf via Amazon.co.uk.

Eerder schreef Justin Taylor ook al dit over de nieuwe hiphopwave als evangelisatie-instrument.

Hiphoppers brengen het evangelie

Collin Hansen en Justin Taylor, twee gedegen bloggers uit evangelische hoek, zijn allebei 'into hip hop'. En met reden(en).

Ze zien veel mogelijkheden in de huidige christelijke hip hop, want die brengt:

(1) een duidelijk en diepgaand evangelie
(2) een nederig evangelie
(3) een kwaliteitsvol evangelie
(4) een impactvol evangelie

- Lees hier de post van Collin Hansen 'The Hip Hop Opportunity' (met audio & video)

- Lees hier de post van Justin Taylor 'Reach Records, Reach Life: Gospel Clarity and Power for the Urban Culture' (met video's en meer links)

Getuigenis rapper Lecrae en video's Rehab

[Intro/Chorus]
We are the children of the light
Royal rulers of the day
Takes no prisoners of the night
Cause we're the love we lead the way

[Verse 1: Lecrae]
Yeah, I notice when people notice me
My exterior's the only way they know it's me
I'm full of holes and scars, my skins marked up
But qualified to light up a world of darkness.
I get a walk, a little walk in the sunlight
I look dirty but I'll be clean on the inside.
It's revolutionaries comin' out for fellas
And they can look at us strange
But there ain't nothin' that they can tell us cuz!

[Chorus]
We are the children of the light
Royal rulers of the day
Takes no prisoners of the night
Cause we're the love we lead the way

[Verse 2: Sonny]
Yeah, freedom rock this mic
To walk right, in a dark night lighted by the sun!
I'm so free that I can fly, while y'all can't even crawl,
It's your fall to freedom!

In my life I count the cards, I take loss accuse the treason,
And I can die for this cause, and you might just be the reason.
And in order to (if I must dial) denial itself,
And if you claim to be the way that means there ain't no one else.
I trust it (done) there ain't no room for discussion,
So if you just don't get it,
Then let the just come with it!
I know much more is required of all that I've been given,
But if y'all claim to be alive,
Then you gotta start livin', you know why!

[Chorus]
We are the children of the light
Royal rulers of the day
Takes no prisoners of the night
Cause we're the love we lead the way

[Verse 3: Dillavou]
(JAH!)
Yo, am I the only one, to take me out to babylon,
An' him create the right an' wrong,
An' him create the scriptin' sound,
And that's why we stand firm upon the rock of the salvation man.
And truly love the prospect, an' we hope to put out helmets on,
And that is why we build upon for each and every chosen one,
[???]

(lyrics onvolledig en niet geautoriseerd)

(J-Paul)
I just wanna be like you,
Walk like, talk like, even think like you
The only one I could look to
You're teaching me to be just like you
Well I just gotta be like,
I just gotta be like you

(Verse 1- Lecrae)
Yeah, Uncle Chris, Uncle Keith, Uncle Ricky,
Before the Lord get me I gotta say something quickly
I grew up empty since my daddy wasn't with me shoot,
I wasn't picky I'd take any male figure
You
stepped in at the right time,
It's 'cuz of you that I write rhymes
You probably never knew that
I loved the way you used to come through come through,
Teach me to do the things that men do
True,
You showed me stuff I probably shouldn't have seen,
But you rebelled and made it out your teens,
and took me under your wings
I wanted hats, I wanted clothes just like you,
Lean to the side when I rolled just like you
And care people didn't like you,
You wanna bang, I wanna bang too
Skyline,pyru
You would've died, I would've died too,
You went to prison, got sick, lost your pops,
Yeah,I cried too
You never know who's right behind you,
Gotta a little son now and he do whatever I do
But it's something deep inside you,
That tell it's gotta be more than doing what other guys do,
They had nobody there to guide you
But I followed your footsteps and this shouldn't surprise you,
You realize you, you, you
Yeah,

(Chorus)
I just wanna be like you,
Walk like, talk like, even think like you
The only one I could look to,
You're teaching me to be just like you
Well I just gotta be like,
I just gotta be like you

(Verse 2)
Now all I see is money, cars, jewels,
Stars
Womanizers, tough guys, guns, knives, and scars,
Drug pushers, thugs, strippers, fast girls, fast life
Everything I wanted and everything I could ask life
If this ain't living and they lied well,
guess I married an old wives' tale
Wow, fail
I don't know another way to go,
This is the only way they ever showed
I got this emptiness inside that got me fighting for approval because I missed out on my daddy saying, way to go,
And get that verbal affirmation on know how to treat a woman,
Know how to fix an engine,
That keep the car running
So now I'm looking at the media and following what they feed me,
Rap stars, trap stars,
Whoever wants to lead me
Even though they lie they still tell me that they love me,
They say I'm good at bad things at least they proud of me

(Chorus)
I just wanna be like you,
Walk like, talk like, even think like you
The only one I could look to
You're teaching me to be just like you
Well I just gotta be like,
I just gotta be like you
(Like you)

(Verse 3)
I was created by God but I ain't wanna be like Him,
I wanna be Him
The Jack Sparrow of my Caribbean
I remember the first created being,
And how he shifted the blame on his dame
On fruit he should't have eaten
And now look at us all out of Eden,
And now look at us all that are eating,
Wearing designer fig leaves by Louis Vuitton
Make believe it
But God sees through my foolish pride,
And I'm weak life Adam another victim of Lucifer's foolish lies
But then in steps Jesus,
All men were created to lead but we need somebody to lead us
More than a teacher,
But somebody who buy us back from the darkness,
Say He redeemed us,
Taught us that real leaders follow God,
Finish the work 'cuz we on our job
Taught us not to rob
But give life love a wife like He loved the Church,
Not seeing how many hearts we can break first
I wanna be like you in every way,
So if I gotta die everyday
Unworthy sacrifice
But the least I can do is give the most to me
Because being just like you is what I'm 'spose to be
You said you came for the lame,
I'm the lamest
I made a mess you say you'll erase it,
I'll take it
You said you came for the lame,
I'm the lamest
I broke my life, but you say you'll replace it,
I'll take it.

(I just gotta be like,....)

Lecrae voor Haïti

Hiphopper Lecrae heeft een song gereleased ten voordele van Haïti. Vorig weekend was er al een concert "Hip Hop for Haiti" voor dit goede doel.
Je kunt de single "Far Away" bestellen via Itunes. Meer info via de blog van Desiring God.

Holy hiphop: LeCrae met Don't Waste Your Life

Reach Records and Desiring God werken samen voor een tournee in de VS: de DWYL Tour 09 (= Don't Waste Your Life Tour - Verspil je leven niet).
De song is eigenlijk gebaseerd op een boek van John Piper, en is van de hand van LeCrae. Je vindt de song terug op z'n cd Rebel.
Desiring God stond ook in voor de productie van de muziekvideo voor LeCrae's single "Don't Waste Your Life".

Lyrics:

Hook (Cam)

Don't wanna waste my life

Verse 1 (LeCrae)

I know a lot of people out there scared they gone die/
couple of em thinking they'll be livin' in the sky/
but while I'm here livin' man I gotta ask why,
what am here fo I gotta figure out/
waste my life?/ no I gotta make it count/
if Christ is real then what am I gone do about/
everything in Luke 12:15 down to 21/
you really oughta go and check it out/

Paul said if Christ ain't resurrect then we wasted our lives/
well that implies that our life's built around Jesus being alive/
everyday I'm living tryin' show the world why/
Christ is more than everything you'll ever try/
better than pretty women and sinning and living
to get a minute of any women and men that you admire/

ain't no lie/ We created for Him/
outta the dust he made us for Him/
Elects us and he saves us for Him/
Jesus comes and raises for Him/
Magnify the Father why bother with something lesser/
he made us so we could bless Him
and to the world we confess him/
resurrects him/

so I know I got life/
matter fact better man I know I got Christ/
if you don't' see His ways in my days and nights/
you can hit my brakes you can stop my lights/
man I lost my rights/
I lost my life/
forget the money cars and toss that ice/
the cost is Christ/
and they could never offer me anything on the planet that'll cost that price.

Verse 2 (Dwayne Tryumph)
(Merk op: verse 2 maakt geen deel uit van de music video)

Armed and dangerous
So the devil jus can't handle us
Christian youth them a stand wid us
Livin' n driven/ given a vision/ fullfillin the commission he handed us

London to Los Angeles
Da rap evangelist
Ma daddy wouldn't abandon us
"I gotta back pack fulla tracts plus I keep a Johnny Mac"
So are you ready to jam with us

So lets go, gimme the word an lets go
Persecution lets go
Tribulation lets go
Across the nation lets go
Procrastination bes go

Hung on the cross in the cold
Died for da young and the old
Can't say you never know
Heaven knows
How many souls are going to hell or to heaven so we gotta go in and get em

Verse 3 (LeCrae)

Suffer/ Yeah do it for Christ
if you trying to figure what to do with your life/
if you making a lot money hope you doing it right
because the money is Gods you better steward it right/

stay focused
if you ain't got no ride/
your life ain't wrapped up in what you drive/
the clothes you wear
the job you work/
the color your skin naw you Christian first/

people living life for a job/
make a lil money start living for a car/
get em a house a wife kids and a dog/
when they retire they living high on the hog/
but guess what they didn't ever really live at all/
to live is Christ yeah that's Paul I recall/ to die is gain
so for Christ we give it all/
he's the treasure you'll never find in a mall/

Your money your singleness, marriage, talents, your time/
they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine/
that's why it's Christ in my rhymes/
That's why it's Christ all the time/
see my whole world is built around him He's the life in my lines/

I refuse to waste my life/
he's too true ta chase that ice/
here's my gifts and time cause I'm constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ/
If he's truly raised to life/
then this news should change your life/
and by his grace you can put your faith in place that rules your days and nights.

Heilige hiphop

Thabiti Anyabwile, gewaardeerd spreker op diverse conferenties (zoals de komende Desiring God Pastor's Conference) breekt een lans voor wat hij "holy hip hop" noemt.
Denk dan onder meer aan artiesten als Lecrae, die ik vroeger al onder de aandacht bracht. Doe gerust een search op deze blog naar Lecrae (via het venster links bovenaan), je vindt nog enkele gratis downloads van zijn songs - muzikaal en inhoudelijk stevig.