John the Baptist (Hebrew: יוחנן המטביל, Yoḥanan ha-mmaṭbil, Arabic: يحيى بن زكريا Yahya ibn Zakariya, Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ Yoḥanan, Greek: Ὁ Ἅγιος/Τίμιος Ἐνδοξος Προφήτης, Πρόδρομος καὶ Βαπτιστής Ἰωάννης Ho Hágios/Tímios Endoxos, Profḗtēs, Pródromos, kaì Baptistḗs Ioánnes) (c. 6 BC – c. AD 30-36) was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels and the Qur'an. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River. Some scholars maintain that he was influenced by the Essenes, who were semi-ascetic, expected an apocalypse, and practiced rituals corresponding strongly with baptism, although there is no direct evidence to substantiate this. John is regarded as a prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, and Mandaeism.
Most biblical scholars agree that John baptized Jesus at "Bethany beyond the Jordan," by wading into the water with Jesus from the eastern bank. John the Baptist is also mentioned by Jewish historian Josephus, in Aramaic Matthew, in Pseudo-Clementine, and in the Qur'an. Accounts of John in the New Testament appear compatible with the account in Josephus. There are no other historical accounts of John the Baptist from around the period of his lifetime.
Paul David Washer (born 1961) is the Founder/Director & Missions Coordinator of HeartCry Missionary Society which supports indigenous missionary work. He is also a Southern Baptist itinerant preacher. Washer's sermons tend to have an evangelistic focus on the gospel and the doctrine of the assurance of salvation, and he frequently speaks against practices such as the sinner's prayer, and a focus on numerical church growth.
Washer had a born again experience while studying to become an oil and gas lawyer at the University of Texas. Upon graduation, he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and achieved a Master of Divinity degree. He then moved to Peru to become a missionary for 10 years, after which he returned to the United States. Washer resides in Radford, Virginia, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Washer's sermons often focus on the character of Christ and how a person is saved from hell. According to Washer, a person is saved through faith alone, but the evidence of a person's repentance is by walking with Jesus. Washer claims that most people who profess a belief in Christianity aren't truly saved. Washer blames preachers, as he claims many preachers often say a person is saved without looking for evidence of repentance in that person's life.
Maya Angelou ( /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, numerous books of poetry, and is credited with a long list of plays, movies, and television shows. She is one of the most decorated writers of her generation, with dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
Angelou's long list of occupations has included pimp, prostitute, night-club dancer and performer, castmember of the musical Porgy and Bess, coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, author, journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization, and actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. Since 1991, she has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Since the 1990s she has made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
I remember that the rain
Falls down
And it was cold in the
Heart of the town,
I'm still searching for the
Meaning of life,
In a world of starry eyes.
I want you back,
Back where you belong,
I never felt love
Growing up so stront.
Can you feel it,
Feel it in your heart
That nothing can
Tear us apart
Your life, your life,
Not close enough to Paradise
Your life, and your
Heart's still cold as ice.
I felt so lonely,
So lonely and cold
With nothing,
Nothing in this world to hold.
I'd tried to stop cryin',
Cryin' all day
All I want is you to stay
Your life, your life,
Not close enough to paradise
Your life, and your
Heart's still cold as ice.
Your life, love is on my mind,
But love's so hard to find
Your life we built
A mountain of love.
High enough to touch
[O.C.]
Uhh, uhh
Yeah, yeah
Hah, hah
U NAST and O.C.
O.C. and U NAST
Yeah, yeah
Medina style, y'know?
Commitin crimes with the rhymes, always on time
Lampin on the Island with a honey that's a dime
Sippin on wine, escapin New York life
Fleein the inner city streets for a little paradise
I rent a villa on the beach on the lam
like a killer chillin, but I'm not a villain
Feelin effects of the Mai-Tai and the weed U NAST
copped from the rastas, gettin, high as the climate
Designer drug dosage, raps I spit
be ferocious, quote it like Confucious
Thick like mucus in the membrane, penetrate like Ben-Gay
On the mic motherfuckers call me Sensei
Cluster, illustrious like a carat that I got
from the District, bust rhymes like a biscuit
Mister, Oh pronunciated with the Cee
Mesmerizing chicks from New York to gay Paris
[Chorus: O.C.]
I never knew that my life it could be so hard
Whatsamatter with your life?
Gotta get yourself together, and make things right y'know
Whatsamatter with your world?
[U NAST]
General Monk mong style U NAST I get wild
Chase you two thousand two hundred miles outside of town
Yo Oh hold it down (no doubt) at the rate that sound travel
My team'll have you caught from a smokin barrel
Dead or paralyzed, my mack parallel lines
is my rhymes, the shit I design
You and I burst, I verse, draw last die first
Time to realize you're fuckin with the worst
and it gets no better than the twenty-first letter
Can't a man on the planet stop the God from gettin cheddar
[O.C.]
Yeah, uhh
Yeah, yeah
Whatsamatter with your world?
We in the mix like this, drink Henn (pop Crist)
Warmin up another verse (yo Son I got this)
[U NAST]
Watch this how I rock shit, lock shit
Six hundred Coupe chop shop shit, ?be gafe rop chop shit?
[O.C.]
Hey I like spike mics like football punts
Man I do this on the real yo this shit ain't no front
[U NAST]
No illusions, I want the absence of confusion
[both]
And if I can't get it I'ma start a revolution
[U NAST]
Yeah, know what I'm sayin?
Everything that glitters ain't gold
And when I seem I'm at my tightest that's when I lose control
But right now, me and Oh, we gonna show you how it is back at home
[?Nevaha?]
So what's the deal people, how y'all, it's ?Nevaha?
Caught a little drama back in South Carolina
Caught up in some bullshit a half a brick thick
Me and these three cats and this one sneaky bitch
Called up wifey, "Mama, I need bail
Don't tell Mama Dukes tell I get out jail"
Airplane ticket, get the loot, move your tail
Now it's back to the drawin boards, my plans fail
Couple weeks later, here comes wifey's birthday
You're turnin twenty-four, it's a glorious day
Showed you all my plans down to X on the map
Ten days after that you lied dead on my lap
I seen my whole world diminish in just, two minutes
Where I thought our life was startin off, yours just finished
Now I'm home at night, holdin down our seed
Tears rollin down my face while I steam these trees
It's a must that I bust cause I must succeed
I'm the strongest out my breed so I provide what Mia needs
[O.C.]
Whatsamatter with your world?
[Chorus]
[O.C.]
Yeah... co-signing on my nigga trial, shit got wild
He caught a case for a body and a pist-al, shit's foul
Cats run they mouth a mile a minute like bitches
Instead of holdin it down, niggaz turn snitches
Stressed like FUCK and you could see it in my face
I was, goin through problems with my shorty plus thinkin
bout my man ?Nevaha?, politickin with his Ma Dukes
Strugglin to scrape up cake, for his court date
I felt like shit, I didn't come through
Blue skies turned gray so I proceed to pray
It ain't workin, the whole situation's uncertain
Rent's overdue, bills pilin like curtains
Bitches on my back, this chick named Cat
was on my side til I got wise and opened up my eyes
Bad luck for this life I hail, I say
Whatsamatter with my world?
Everyone's afraid of their own life
If you could be anything you want to be
You'd be disappointed, am I right?
No one really knows the ones they love
If you knew everything they thought
I bet that you'd wish that they'd just shut up
Well, you were the dull sound of sharp math
When you were alive
Not ones gonna play the harp when you die
And if I had a nickel for every damn dime
I'd have half the time, do you mind?
Everyone's afraid of their own lives
If you could be anything you want I bet
You'd be disappointed, am I right, am I right?
And it's our lives
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
We're alive for the first time
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
We're alive for the last time
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
To live before you die
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
That our lives are such a short time
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
When it takes such a long time
It's hard to remember
It's hard to remember
My mom's God is a woman
And my mom she is a witch
I like this
My hell comes from inside
Comes from inside myself
Why fight this
Everyone's afraid of their own life
If you could be anything you want I bet
You'd be disappointed, am I right?
I see your life
You're going nowhere
I see your life
Are you in despair
Fear comes in the night
Afraid of what comes next
What is this life, what is this mess?
BRIDGE
My mispent, recompense
What is hope? My despair
Don't want to raise raise my head
Sleep engulfs my pain
What is my release, purpose for this flesh?
BRIDGE
Drugged and lost I come
I hear the music play
They speak my release
The new born life
BRIDGE
Hope kills my pain - what is this change?
God has come to me, life infills my veins
My new life, I repeat
This is hope, my new way
I see your life
You're going somewhere
I see your life
YOUR LIFE - SHAGGY 2 DOPE
Your karma... Its all about karma... (x2, then another x2 in background of next line)
Your life, your life, your liiiii... i-iiii... i-ife
VERSE 1
I awake, floatin 3 feet off my bed,
An old cardboard box, no shoes, no socks,
But lots of karma, i'm smiley-whilin,
Giddy-as-fuck, though grimey-stylin.
I gots no home, I gots no bones,
Just happy to be alive and checkin payphones,
For a quarter over here, a nickel over there,
Flat broke, but I got alot of karma to share.
CHORUS
I can make mountains get up and move out my way,
Hear that paradise has offered me a place to stay,
I dont waste a day, I dont starve for nothing,
Im the karma millionaire, always happy 'bout something.
I say live out your days coz you ain't gettin shit back,
Bitch around me will only get you your lip smacked,
Karma over any drug dealers supply,
Coz I can do anything with it except die.
VERSE 2
The bail man's tryin to find me, i'm deep into thoughts,
And I bounce everytime a car passes with the bumps,
Im the hobo with all the jokes to tell,
Full of karma through the roof and i'm broke as hell.
whether the life slows down, or if it throws down,
I'm beaming karma and i'm glad to be around,
This city get cold as ice, i'm out there,
But my karma keep me warm like some thermal underwear.
REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT "Your Life..." x2
VERSE 3
Let me see a bad weather, I got sunshine for ya,
Front me with that sad shit, I'll fuckin ignore ya,
My days are always fly days,
I like everybody else on them over-crowded highways.
I says karma's worth more than money or love,
or any of the above,
Mine blows off, and shows off my charisma,
happy nobody here that say that there is none.
REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT "Your Life..." x2
BRIDGE
I'm all about karma, if i'm about something, }
Ain't nobody placed on this earth for nothin, } X
Watch me get to it, get on it, get live, } 8
But i'm still alive, and i'm so alive. }
[O.C.]
Uhh, uhh
Yeah, yeah
Hah, hah
U NAST and O.C.
O.C. and U NAST
Yeah, yeah
Medina style, y'know?
Commitin crimes with the rhymes, always on time
Lampin on the Island with a honey that's a dime
Sippin on wine, escapin New York life
Fleein the inner city streets for a little paradise
I rent a villa on the beach on the lam
like a killer chillin, but I'm not a villain
Feelin effects of the Mai-Tai and the weed U NAST
copped from the rastas, gettin, high as the climate
Designer drug dosage, raps I spit
be ferocious, quote it like Confucious
Thick like mucus in the membrane, penetrate like Ben-Gay
On the mic motherfuckers call me Sensei
Cluster, illustrious like a carat that I got
from the District, bust rhymes like a biscuit
Mister, Oh pronunciated with the Cee
Mesmerizing chicks from New York to gay Paris
[Chorus: O.C.]
I never knew that my life it could be so hard
Whatsamatter with your life?
Gotta get yourself together, and make things right y'know
Whatsamatter with your world?
[U NAST]
General Monk mong style U NAST I get wild
Chase you two thousand two hundred miles outside of town
Yo Oh hold it down (no doubt) at the rate that sound travel
My team'll have you caught from a smokin barrel
Dead or paralyzed, my mack parallel lines
is my rhymes, the shit I design
You and I burst, I verse, draw last die first
Time to realize you're fuckin with the worst
and it gets no better than the twenty-first letter
Can't a man on the planet stop the God from gettin cheddar
[O.C.]
Yeah, uhh
Yeah, yeah
Whatsamatter with your world?
We in the mix like this, drink Henn (pop Crist)
Warmin up another verse (yo Son I got this)
[U NAST]
Watch this how I rock shit, lock shit
Six hundred Coupe chop shop shit, ?be gafe rop chop shit?
[O.C.]
Hey I like spike mics like football punts
Man I do this on the real yo this shit ain't no front
[U NAST]
No illusions, I want the absence of confusion
[both]
And if I can't get it I'ma start a revolution
[U NAST]
Yeah, know what I'm sayin?
Everything that glitters ain't gold
And when I seem I'm at my tightest that's when I lose control
But right now, me and Oh, we gonna show you how it is back at home
[?Nevaha?]
So what's the deal people, how y'all, it's ?Nevaha?
Caught a little drama back in South Carolina
Caught up in some bullshit a half a brick thick
Me and these three cats and this one sneaky bitch
Called up wifey, "Mama, I need bail
Don't tell Mama Dukes tell I get out jail"
Airplane ticket, get the loot, move your tail
Now it's back to the drawin boards, my plans fail
Couple weeks later, here comes wifey's birthday
You're turnin twenty-four, it's a glorious day
Showed you all my plans down to X on the map
Ten days after that you lied dead on my lap
I seen my whole world diminish in just, two minutes
Where I thought our life was startin off, yours just finished
Now I'm home at night, holdin down our seed
Tears rollin down my face while I steam these trees
It's a must that I bust cause I must succeed
I'm the strongest out my breed so I provide what Mia needs
[O.C.]
Whatsamatter with your world?
[Chorus]
[O.C.]
Yeah... co-signing on my nigga trial, shit got wild
He caught a case for a body and a pist-al, shit's foul
Cats run they mouth a mile a minute like bitches
Instead of holdin it down, niggaz turn snitches
Stressed like FUCK and you could see it in my face
I was, goin through problems with my shorty plus thinkin
bout my man ?Nevaha?, politickin with his Ma Dukes
Strugglin to scrape up cake, for his court date
I felt like shit, I didn't come through
Blue skies turned gray so I proceed to pray
It ain't workin, the whole situation's uncertain
Rent's overdue, bills pilin like curtains
Bitches on my back, this chick named Cat
was on my side til I got wise and opened up my eyes
Bad luck for this life I hail, I say
Whatsamatter with my world?
[Chorus: repeat to fade]
We are tried and true and we do what we do
because we know of a better way for the world today.
We're raised to conform to societies way-
that the "proper" way of living is what keeps us free,
but we know in our hearts that the truth sets us free,
so we're calling out the liars, bigots & hypocrisies.
We'll always stand together like a family that has grown,
to you, we might be scum; to us, this our home.
This is your life, we have to keep the scene alive!
We'll sing through our lungs and straight from our hearts
because everything we stand for means so much to us.
We'll fight to the death for everything we've worked
and no one can erase the history that we've built.
You'll never pull us down; we're stronger than you know.
What once was a scene is now a culture.
If you wanna fuck with us, there is something you should know:
It's Your Life
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo
Ja Rule, Uh
Shade and Irv Gotti
Niggas don't want none of this
[Ja Rule]
Ladies call me white Kane, pure as snow
Like cocaine, cutiepies powder they nose
I've been preaching to the stars
Ladies be livin real harder
A lot of icons, but consider me God
Born in the seventies
The eighties was growing wit time
Now it's two G nigga
And the world is mine
I was a smart nigga
Figured if he put me on the spot
Wit hot shit bubble me up till I rock
Come put me on the block
In a new form and new sound
For Ja Rule and I'm feeling like I'm too strong
I move on down to D.C., V.A.
And I even did as far as Californ-I-A
Come to shit
They fly, they float, they snort, they smoke
Hustle, bag and mope
For more
Down the freeway racing out of control, it's crazy
When you fucking wit Rule it's shady
[Chorus]
Niggas if you hustle and stick 'em
It's your life
Bitches if your Fuckin and striping
It's alright
We all got to eat
So live your life
Niggas
It's alright
Bitches
It's your life
[Shade Sheist]
Now I got to hit you wit some other shit
Sentinella gutta shit
Four sides of the chrome
Flows smack you wit the rubber grip
Never been a nigga, niggas wanna play they cards wit
See me in the dark whip
Better go call your guards quick
Better go hit the block and tell them bitches that shisty shit
Known the freaks face like that yellow bezel ice shit
Similar response, yo that kid spit the nicest
Baby re-intice this, CD's raise they prices
Make a nigga chain, oaid off in a different name
Maid think they got flame, Shade just hit the brain
Me and Ja fucked around and made the teams A-list
Two niggas from two sides, like a 7/10 split bitch
[Chorus 2x]
[Ja Rule]
Niggas from the East
Christ from the gun to the mics
I'm living my life
Running through hell wit no ice
It's a sin
But I'd sell my lost soul to win
Go to bed and die
Then I'd wake up breathing again
Cause I'm all in
Even though shit ain't right
I wake up sweatin my life every night
Help me, is it the devil that going to get me
Or is it God don't feel like being bothered wit me
So hard to hit me, this life a sacrifice
If I grow blind through the dark my kids gonna see the light
If I die young it's cause a nigga too high strung
Got scary love for gun wit too much weed in my lungs
And still niggas screaming Ja the one, the chosen
The God's only begotten son, it's my life
[Chorus 2x]
(Daah, aiah...)
Singing
(Daah, aiah...)
Not yet
Singing
(Daah, aiah...)
Not yet
Is your life
Your life
Remember,
In my world
First steps
Following my footsteps
Follow closelly
All the way 'round
Singing
(Daah, aiah...)
Not yet
Singing
(Daah, aiah...)
Not yet
(Da, da, aiah...)
(Da, da, aiah...)
I see your life
You're going nowhere
I see your life
Are you in despair
Fear comes in the night
Afraid of what comes next
What is this life, what is this mess
[BRIDGE]
My mispent, recompense
What is hope My despair
Don't want to raise raise my head
Sleep engulfs my pain
What is my release, purpose for this flesh
[BRIDGE]
Drugged and lost I come
I hear the music play
They speak my release
The new born life
[BRIDGE]
Hope kills my pain - what is this change
God has come to me, life infills my veins
My new life, I repeat
This is hope, my new way
I see your life
You're going somewhere
I see your life
You're mind is in His hands