The Himyarite Kingdom or Himyar (in Arabic مملكة حِمْيَر mamlakat ħimyâr) (r. 110 BC–520s), historically referred to as the Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a kingdom in ancient Yemen. Established in 110 BC, it took as its capital the modern day city of Sana'a after the ancient city of Zafar. The Kingdom conquered neighbouring Saba (Sheba) in c.25 BC, Qataban in c.200 CE, and Hadramaut c.300 CE. Its political fortunes relative to Saba changed frequently until it finally conquered the Sabaean Kingdom around 280 CE.
The Himyarite Kingdom was the dominant polity in Arabia until 525 AD. Its economy was based on agriculture, and foreign trade centered on the export of frankincense and myrrh. For many years, the kingdom was also the major intermediary linking East Africa and the Mediterranean world. This trade largely consisted of exporting ivory from Africa to be sold in the Roman Empire. Ships from Himyar regularly traveled the East African coast, and the state also exerted a large amount of Influence both cultural religious and political to the trading cities of East Africa whilst the cities of East Africa remained independent. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes the trading empire of Himyar and its ruler Charibael (Karab Il Watar Yuhan'em II), who is said to have been on friendly terms with Rome:
Terius Youngdell Nash (Born September 20, 1977), better known by his stage name The-Dream, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is known for co-writing chart topping hits such as "Baby" for Justin Bieber, "Umbrella" for Rihanna and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" for Beyoncé, as well as for his three solo albums, Love Hate, Love vs. Money, and Love King.
Terius Nash was born in Rockingham, North Carolina and moved with his mother, Reva Nash, to Atlanta at the age of 3. He played trumpet, drums, and guitar as a child. His mother died in 1992 when Nash was fifteen years old, an event which would inspire him to write songs. He states that the death of his mother gave him a "soft spot" for women, which he credits to his desire to write songs about female empowerment such as Rihanna's "Umbrella". He moved in with his grandfather, a concrete mason who instilled a strong work ethic in young Nash. Of his grandfather, Nash recalls "He came out of a bad time for blacks in the South, but even though we lived in the hood, we had a boat, some cars and a house that was paid for. So I’ve always had a different outlook on life. There’s nothing I can’t do."
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(Reyne/Hussey)
Be my ritual
Be my one desire
Be my light,be my pure delight
Be my purifier
You'll never know what you do to me
Five times a day
My self-destruction you'll over-see
Don't go,don't go away
Just a touch of you
Just a taste
Like kissing God is what we do
Let's go to waste
You'll never know what you do to me
So sublime
You're like devil in heaven
Every,every time
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Take the food from my mouth
Take my sex
Take my friends,take my lovers
Here,take this
You'll never know what you do to me
Maybe I'm wrong
Let's take this journey together
Please come,please come along
Please come,please come along
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Oh...
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead (Hammerhead)
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead...
I wonder when my homies ride
Cuz when I'm gone ain't no time tah shed tears and cry
Uggggh
Made money from cane, but times done change
I done change my life, but still trapped in the game
A young thug nigga hustlin' full of hennesey
Mama said P keep yah eyes on yah enemies
A lil' skinny nigga made it to the big times
No Limit Soldier still chased by the one time
I feel like it's, it's us against the world
Cuz every young nigga that I know is homie-furall
The game wont change me, but these streets made me
Papa wasn't home so these killas fuckin' raised me
Uggggh
Now look
I got killas surroundin' me, but I don't know who gon' bust
Niggas aim fo' themselves, so I don't know who tah trust
Friend or foe, enemies or hoe
I don't know who tah dust
Bitches tell me it ain't even, so I don't know who tah fuck
Now look, I ride with ridahs, and plus I kill with killas (Uggggh)
Nigga deal with dealers, and plus I steal with stealers
Now they always told me Silkk, look you be the first tah get killed
But they done fucked up, and let me see my first fuckin' meal
Now I was like shit, I want hundreds in dough
Have two quarters like hundreds of hoes, and rock hundreds of shows
Receive letters from my niggas up in prison tellin' me
At the most come get us, at the least come and visit (Uggggh)
Imagine the pain nigga, would you accept my debt?
Or would you hesitate, retaliation, on my last breath?
And I ain't talkin' 'bout no muthafuckin' people
I won't rest till I see a nigga dead in the concrete
I be a TRU Soulja till I'm buried
I leave 'em worried, gettin' high for my homies in the cemetery
I went from ghettos, tah condos, tah shows with hoes
Tah bustin' at fools with nickle plated fo' fo's
Huh, cuz Im'a ride for my tank dawgz
So put yah name on the wall, cuz I'm comin' tah get all y'all
No Limit niggas be the realest, so rest yah soul
Cuz fo' sho' they gon' feel it (Uggggh)
I wonder will my thug niggas ride fo' me?
Nigga I wonder will they'll kill or die with me
I'm just a ghetto child tryna get rich
My home boy hate, man lifes a bitch
Hold yo' breath young niggas cause these streets a trip
Protect yah own and live long, man lifes a bitch
With my hopes to survive, I plan tah get rich
And if I die, fuck the cryin' and this funeral shit
My only wish is tah see this niggas pain for this shit
Lord forgive me, but revenge is the life that I picked
Homicides, hennesey, it's the life that we lead
And if I die, I got some TRU niggas comin' with me
Muthafuckas (Uggggh)
Haha, no time tah shed no muthafuckin' tears nigga
When we gone, nigga smile
Some real niggas done moved on
And y'all niggas thats left, it's time tah muthafuckin' ride
Act like Jesus crucified again.
These four wall are closing in.
Who and what do you think you
are, a rich mother fucker in a
fancy car?
Concrete jackel suckin' on the
past, goldcard junkie kissin
money's ass.
You're the monkey on my back
and it's time for you to go.
Hammered.
You're more harm than my old
vice and I don't want to know.
Hey, Hey, you're hammer,
hammer poor.
Now you're feelin low, tired and
beaten.
Bring you some blades and
daggers, pierce your soul.
Hell, ain't livin' six feet in the
hole.
Get down on your knees in
Hollywood time to Kiss some,
some ass.
Hey, Mr. big time Hollywood, tell
your story walkin' if you think
you could.
Your money's runnin' low from
your cocaine whores, nothin' but a
rat scratchin' at my door.
Hey, now I've said all I'm gonna
say.
time will judge, see who fades
away.
You're the monkey on my back
and it's time for you to go.
Hammered.
You're more harm than my old
vice and I don't want to know.
Hey, Hey, you're hammer, hammer
poor.
Now you're feelin low, tired and
beaten.
Bring you some blades and
daggers, pierce your soul.
Hell, ain't livin' six feet in the
hole.
Get down on your knees in
Hollywood time to Kiss some, some
Feeling the pain as it rips through my brain
Twisting what's left of my mind.
Tearing the same, this blood burning flame
Decaying all it can find.
Banging your head, stuck in the dread,
Leaving the posers behind.
Powers you see, the power you need
Nerves and bones we grind.
Hammer! Hammerhead.
Hammer! Hammerhead.
Knocked to the floor, left wanting more.
Scars decorate your face...
Playing the game, your never the same
The heat is melting this place
Emotion and fire!!, you never tire
Running a death metal race...
Kinfe in te back, guitar heart attack
Murder, rest my case.
Hammer! Hammerhead
Hammer! Hammerhead
No one can stop, our way to the top!
No one can get in the way
Necksnapping force, taking it's course.
Keeping the dogs at bay.
Nailed to the wall, giving your all
We know that you ain't dead.
We know your name, know why you came
Your a fucking hammerhead.
Hammer! Hammerhead.
Hammer! Hammerhead!
Hammer! Hammerhead!...
I am the one, camouflage and guns
Risk my life to keep my people from harm
Authority vested in me
I sacrifice with my brothers in arms
Through this doorway
What?s on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what I?ll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming, let?s go
Come on do it, here we go
I'll take a life, that others may live
Oh, that?s just the way it goes
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head
Where it?ll end nobody knows
I'll take a life, ten others may live
Oh, that?s just the way it goes
It?s playing over and over in my head
Where it?ll end nobody knows
Stay the course, reasonable force
I believe I serve a greater good
Smoke and dust, enemies are crushed
Nothing left, where a man once stood
Through this doorway
What?s on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what I?ll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming, let?s go
But I?m just doing what I?m told
I'll take a life, that others may live
Oh, that?s just the way it goes
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head
Where it?ll end nobody knows
I'll take this life, ten others may live
Oh, that?s just the way it goes
It?s playing over and over in my head
Where it begins and where it?ll end nobody knows
Hey go
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
In my head, in my head
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil for Thou art with me
Locked and loaded gonna find my truth
Now I?m busting through, all hell breaks loose
And you can all hide behind your desks now
And you can cry, ?Teacher, come help me?
Through you all, my aim is true
My aim is true
Reaching you and you're not there, you never were
So I sit down on these steps again
In the cellar of my mind i'll try to be
Broken pieces that I thought were me
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Home
Lookin' through another day with empty eyes
I don't know if I want to laugh or lie awake
And I hope that someday I will find true peace
Now I go off with a taste of fantasy
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
Hey! I don't wanna go home
The hallowed lands so far behind
As fleeting dreams still linger
Like distant voices through the rain
Like grains of sand cast from my hands
I never thought I'd go this far
Without a star to cross the seas
So far from shores I'd left behind
Still far from shores I've yet to reach
I try to find the strength I need
To calm the doubts in my belief
With the will, I know my heart won't break
And if I have strength, then I've belief
If I have love, my heart still beats
Here under stars far from home
I try to find the strength I need
To calm the doubts in my belief
With the will, I know my heart won't break
And if I have strength, then I've belief
If I have love, my heart still beats
Here under stars far from home
The picture fades, the light recedes
The sound is lost in whispers
My recollections once clear and pure
Now distant lights that dim with time
I never thought I'd go this far
Without a star to cross the seas
So far from shores I'd left behind
Still far from shores I've yet to reach
I try to find the strength I need
To calm the doubts in my belief
With the will, I know my heart won't break
And if I have strength, then I've belief
If I have love, my heart still beats
Here under stars far from home
I try to find the strength I need
To calm the doubts in my belief
With the will, I know my heart won't break
And if I have strength, then I've belief
If I have love, my heart still beats
I drive away
As far as I can
Town to spire to peak
I dissect the fields and the old country
Homeward bound
Homeward bound
Into the concrete
Past the M4, 5 and the big 6
Watching the stars with a satellite dish
21st century chapels
Crucified our land lies flat
TV monsters ridicule
Each and everything incongruous pap
I get so oh
Yes I get so
Overwhelmed by it all
It's all untrue
It's all a lie
It's just too surreal
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar high up
Like a baby satellite
Flying flying away
Flying away
Stranger stranger
In a strange land
Stranger stranger
In a strange land
This immaculate misconception
Shoe polished and treacle black
Conveyor belt disciples
There's no peeling back the tarmac
I feel so
Oh yes I feel so
I'm no use at all
I get so
Oh yes I get so
Overwhelmed by it all
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar so high
Like a baby satellite
Flying flying away
Flying away
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar so high
Like a baby satellite
I'm a stranger
Born of a good family
And I'm not afraid of the stranger in me
Homeward bound
Homeward bound
He sees himself as a warrior
In a world that doesn't understand
A demon light fills the eyes
Of this mechanical man
He's a living, breathing nightmare
He's twisted and he's mean
In his head, the walking dead
Are his secret war machine
Oh, oh, hammerhead
He was just a lonely boy
Before the demons took control
His sanity, humanity
Lost somewhere long ago
Now the poisons in his memory
Are clogging up his veins
And the loneliness like a devil's kiss
Has gone straight to his brain
Oh, oh, hammerhead
(Hammerhead)
Oh, oh, hammerhead
Now he's lost within his madness
And more and more each day
The metal man turns his hand
To the price the world must pay
Hammerhead
Oh, oh, hammerhead
Hello, how are you? Ready tonight?
I'm here to show you.
I know your kind, I like you just fine,
Anyway I choose.
Hammerhead baby in plainsight, in lace and leather.
She wants me to feel just right,
Wants to get together.
Come on now lady, show me how you rock,
I wanna get to know you.
I'm hot, so give me what you've got,
My turn to go you.
Faster than the speed of light,
Wham bam! I thank you, or...
All night pounding away, with more ways to please me.
CHORUS
Love for the taking, she talks with her eyes,
Wants me to give her a ride.
Spellbound she takes me way deep inside,
Hammerhead baby tonight...Hold tight!
We're all alone, my love has grown,
My time to show you.
You're on your knees, you're ready to please,
Give me the Hammer...Head.
REPEAT VERSE I
CHORUS
Be my ritual
Be my one desire
Be my light be my pure delight
Be my purifier
You'll never know what you do to me
Five times a day
My self destruction you'll oversee
Don't go don't go away
Just a touch of you
Just a taste
Like kissing God is what we do
Let's go to waste
You'll never know what you do to me
So sublime
You're like the Devil in Heaven
Every every time
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Take food from my mouth
Take my sex
Take my friends take my lovers
Here take this
You'll never know what you do to me
Maybe I'm wrong
Let's take this journey together
Please come please come along
Please come please come along
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
In another time and space
I'm awaiting the awakening of day
Going far beyond the sun
Cause nothing is really what it seems
In a room within a room
Where I go to see the setting sun
In a room within a room
Hammerhead
Do you understand
Yeah the deeds of man
Worship you my hammerhead
Let me stay inside your womb
Time is no more, evolution is for fools
Should have told me long ago
What's right is wrong but yesterday is gone
Room within a room
Where I go to see the setting sun
In a room within a room
Hammerhead
Do you understand
Yeah the deeds of man
Worship you my hammerhead
I am standing on the outside looking in
Searching for the end to find where to begin
Doesn't matter what you do when evolution fails
You've stolen my heart
And I want you to remember
Now what'll I do living alone?
You've stolen my heart
And it hurts me to remember
'Cause now where'll I go to living alone?
And a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
It's dumb, I know what I want to say
But I can't even take one breath
As night falls
I hear voices on the radio
I'll follow their dreams and wake up alone
And a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
It's dumb, I know what I want to say
But I can't even take one breath
So now still burning silently away
The horses rear, the banners wave
The skies forsee the fearless rage of war
Their heads held high, the knights await
For the sun to shed its light uppon the moor
Wipe the sleep from out your eyes
The sun begins to climb the sky today
Ten thousand men will fight
For king and God and all that's right today
The hammerhead, the thrust is soiled
The strife is on, the battle won again
And now his bloody work is done
The women rush to greet their lord and men
Wipe the sleep from out your eyes
The sun begins to climb the sky today
Ten thousand men have fought
[Verse 1: Substantial]
Bring your crew if you're feeling them killing them with
This past super lyrical, spiritual shit
That bashes your physical to little bits
It's that simple you'll want a miracle quick
No one ask you to spit but you're yapping your lips
So I have to just smack you and that's what you get
So don't get me started. I get retarded
Only when shopping are you hitting Targets
I won't stop till maggots feel your carcass
With little or no effort I'm I'll regardless
Get bombarded with this hard shit
Only equal to a blow from God's fist
Oh my God it's so obnoxious
How I paint pain with words like an artist
Probably at home right now eating garbage
While my team's dining on greens and cod fish
Doing squat lifts getting brawlic
Giving pounds so hard that they tear cartilage
Some may think what I'm talking's a gimmick
Till they're cursed with a permanent limp wrist
That goes perfect with your purse and lipstick
Don't get murdered for perping on pimp shit
You deserve to get hurt with a thin shiv
And deserted while birds leave your skin ripped!
[Hook: x2]
Silly rappers think they really matter
In a trance so they can't hear the laughter
Get your mans bet them bamas get fractured
'Cause none of ya'll really want to get hammered and battered
[Verse 2: SOS]
Get braced for school. You too basic to come face my crew
Battle ya like Gallagher actin like your face is fruit
Movin to your ankles. True. This is my way of thanking you
For preparing me to make me wanna try shanking you
With a little bit of language juice, as I spit on your damaged shoes
Turnin this room into a tanning booth
Leaving everybody that we feel is unworthy cracked in two
That's what me and Substantial do to bad examples of
Hip Hop... Arms, legs, and heads, they all
Get chopped... Fingers and toes thrown in
Ziplocks as they drip drop...
Caning rappers like a Pimp shop...
With single whores in Singapore so forget props
Muthafucka you'll be lucky if you ever get shot
To put you out your Misery like Paul did Annie I'm your daddy
Call for Mammy 'cause my next target's your family
[Hook x2]
[Verse 3: Sub and SOS]
(Sub) Start weeping and balling the reaper is calling
These weaklings for speaking I'll beat them and maul them
(SOS) Crack your teeth and smash jaws and give ya momma breathing problems
When I call and tell her you're asleep 6 feet deep in her garden
(Sub) That's right stupid's now fertilizing her tulips
And lawn for trying 2 get it on when the kid was sweeter than cinnamon
(SOS) toast... crunching functions plus attacking joints
Won't... see 9-1-1 coming cause that's the point!
(Sub)Battering Men, Shattering limbs because we're badder than them
(SOS) Brain, splattering them, damaging them all with hammers and pins
(Sub) Die! You worthless serpent with no purpose
(SOS) Sorry weak amateur flirting with hospital curtains
(Sub) I'll put your once rowdy ass in a full body cast
(SOS) Hit your little punanny ass like a tsunami blast
(Sub) You shits call it quits like retired divorcees
(SOS) Pissing on you kids, this is how it is now cause you forced me
[Hook x2]
You have the same stubbornness as hammerhead
Don't need to get into it
When every which way is wrong and every right is your
And everything is either black or white
But even I know the in-betweens and outs
My lowly brain can comprehend
That if it's easy you want you don't go looking for
love
It will complicate you in the end
I may be hollow but I've had my fill
Of idle love I wasn't afraid to spill
And in the morning when I'm hollower still
There won't be any room for us
I have the same stubbornness as my rival
Wouldn't even compromise
When it was too even Steven didn't want to be eating
Such a big piece of the humble pie
It was a hard, hard lesson to learn then
But I won't go do that again
No if it's easy I want I won't go dishing out love
Like it's something I've got plenty of
I may be hollow but I've had my fill
Of idle love I wasn't afraid to spill
And in the morning when I'm hollower still
There won't be any room for us
I have the same attitude as my mother
And I think I'll see it out alone
It may be sweet to share a bed but when you're fucking
with my head
Stopping pit is now a no go zone
I want to love you but it got too much
You have to build it out of stronger stuff
We might have something but it's not enough and there
Hello, how are you? Ready tonight?
I'm here to show you.
I know your kind, I like you just fine,
Anyway I choose.
Hammerhead baby in plainsight, in lace and leather.
She wants me to feel just right,
Wants to get together.
Come on now lady, show me how you rock,
I wanna get to know you.
I'm hot, so give me what you've got,
My turn to go you.
Faster than the speed of light,
Wham bam! I thank you, or...
All night pounding away, with more ways to please me.
Love for the taking, she talks with her eyes,
Wants me to give her a ride.
Spellbound she takes me way deep inside,
Hammerhead baby tonight... Hold tight!
We're all alone, my love has grown,
My time to show you.
You're on your knees, you're ready to please,
Now the Ball is over
it's time to get back home
I need a star to guide me
I'm feeling so alone
feeling so alone.
Morning mustn't find me
sleeping in the sun
now the dawn is breaking
a new day just begun
new day just begun.
Glow worm lightning
darkness fighting
guiding one and all.
homeward going
moving, flowing,
homeward from the Ball.
Wings are sadly folding
here comes another day
oh I'd like to stay for ever
and dance the night away
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
5000 miles
5000 miles
5000 miles
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
5000 miles
5000 miles
5000 miles
Yeah,
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Said,
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
Hammer hammer hammer hammer hammerhead
5000 miles
5000 miles
5000 miley-es
Said,
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),
here we go (drive)
Here we go (drive), here we go (drive),