I was originally going to write a short note thanking you for your blog and more specifically, for both your entries on New Covenant Theology, as well as your recent entries on the NIV. As a former KJV-only type, they have really been excellent articles for me to read and I have learned quite a bit from them. But, as a Christian, I don't know how you justify putting a photo of KanYe West on your site. Below is a sample of his lyrics. Sorry, you really lost me on this one. I won't waste my time on your site again.
Kanye West – Dark Fantasy Lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I fantasized about this back in Chicago mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago that’s me, the first year that I blow how you say broke in Spanish? Me no hablo me drown sorrow in that Diablo me found bravery in my bravado DJ’s need to listen to the model’s You ain’t got no fuckin’ Yeezy in your Serrato? (You ain’t got no Yeezy, nigga?) stupid, but what the fuck do I know? I’m just a Chi-town nigga with a Nas flow and my bitch in that new Phoebe Philo so much head, I woke up to Sleepy Hollow
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher) oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Look like a fat booty Celine Dion sex is on fire, I’m the King of Leon-a Lewis beyond the truest hey, teacher, teacher tell me how do you respawn the students? and refresh the page and restart the memory? respark the soul and rebuild the energy? we stopped the ignorance, we killed the enemies sorry for the night demons still visit me the plan was to drink until the pain over but what’s worse, the pain or the hangover? fresh air, rolling down the window too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your wins low don’t make me pull the toys out, huh don’t make me pull the toys and fire up the engines and then they make noooise
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher) oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
At the mall there was a seance just kids, no parents then the sky filled with heron (I saw the devil) In a Chrysler LeBaron And the hell, it wouldn’t spare us (And the fires did declare us) (But after that, took pills, kissed an heiress) (And moved her back in Paris)
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher) oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher) oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This photo no more endorses "KanYe"'s immoral lyrics than you posting them IN FULL in your comment. You didn't even bleep out the F-word or anything! Straight silly.
If anything, this photo does offend me. I can't BELIEVE someone of Blake's caliber would post a photo with such a blatant expression of disloyalty to the state of Texas! Blake needs to check his heart, for reals!! This post of Kanye (which I'm inclined to spot as subtle glamorization) could be symptoms of Texas-treason in its early stages. You can bet I'll be monitoring this blog closely from now on!!
Anyway.
I look forward to your response, but since you won't be "wasting your time" on this site again, I guess I'll never hear from you, unless of course you do revisit--which would be an endorsement of lying if I'm following you, right? Maybe it's just me.
I try not to respond to anonymous comments, but I think some clarification may help. This picture is supposed to be funny. It is not simply me posting a random picture of a rapper I like or endorse. People who know me know I am a Mavs fan. The Mavs (short for Mavericks) are a basketball team in Dallas and are part of the National Basketball Association (commonly called the NBA). In the top picture, Kanye is rocking a Mavs hat. In the bottom picture, Kanye is hiding his Mavs hat because he is taking a picture with Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade is a player for the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat are also a team in the National Basketball Association. The Heat made it to the championship this year where they lost to the Dallas Mavericks. Get it? Funny, right? Kanye is a Mavs fan until a Heat comes around. Then he hides his hat. Make sense now? Still lost?
As Ep noted, please "bleep" out any future expletives you are tempted to post on this website.
To bring things full circle and call it a day, I had to [my radio edits in CAPS and brackets]:
"Jesus Walks"
Yo, We at war We at war with terrorism, racism, and most of all we at war with ourselves [A-FREAKIN-MEN!!] (Jesus Walks) God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down (Jesus Walks with me) with me, with me, with me [fades]
You know what the Midwest is? Young & Restless [AND REFORMED] Where restless [BLACK FOLK] might snatch your necklace And next these [BLACK FOLK] might jack your Lexus Somebody tell these [BLACK FOLK] who Kanye West is I walk through the valley of the shadow of death is Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless Uhhhh! Try to catch it Uhhhh! It's kinda hard hard Getting choked by the detectives yeah yeah now check the method They be asking us questions, harass and arrest us Saying "we eat pieces of [FECAL MATTER] like you for breakfast" Huh? Yall eat pieces of [FECAL MATTER]? What's the basis? We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases A truck full of crap rental car from Avis My momma used to say only Jesus can save us Well momma I know I act a fool But I'll be gone 'til November I got packs to move I Hope
[Hook x2] (Jesus Walks) God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down (Jesus Walks with me) The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now (Jesus Walks) And I don't think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs (Jesus Walks with me) I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long
To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers (Jesus walks with them) [POST CONVERSION] To the victims of Welfare for we living in hell here [HECK] yeah (Jesus walks with them) Now hear ye hear ye want to see Thee more clearly [IN SCRIPTURE] I know he hear me when my feet get weary Cause we're the almost nearly extinct We rappers are role models we rap we don't think I ain't here to argue about his facial features Or here to convert atheists into believers [BUT A FEW WOULD BE NICE] I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus [A GOOFY CO-HOST?] So here go my single dog radio needs this They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes But if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? [GOOD POINT ACTUALLY] Well let this take away from my spins Which will probably take away from my ends Then I hope this take away from my sins And bring the day that I'm dreaming about Next time I'm in the club everybody screaming out
(Jesus Walks) God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down (Jesus Walks) The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now (Jesus Walks) And I don't thing there's nothing I can do now to right my wrongs (Jesus walks with me... fades) I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long
(Props: Basketball Jones)
4 comments:
Dear Barabbas,
I was originally going to write a short note thanking you for your blog and more specifically, for both your entries on New Covenant Theology, as well as your recent entries on the NIV. As a former KJV-only type, they have really been excellent articles for me to read and I have learned quite a bit from them. But, as a Christian, I don't know how you justify putting a photo of KanYe West on your site. Below is a sample of his lyrics. Sorry, you really lost me on this one. I won't waste my time on your site again.
Kanye West – Dark Fantasy Lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I fantasized about this back in Chicago
mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago
that’s me, the first year that I blow
how you say broke in Spanish? Me no hablo
me drown sorrow in that Diablo
me found bravery in my bravado
DJ’s need to listen to the model’s
You ain’t got no fuckin’ Yeezy in your Serrato?
(You ain’t got no Yeezy, nigga?)
stupid, but what the fuck do I know?
I’m just a Chi-town nigga with a Nas flow
and my bitch in that new Phoebe Philo
so much head, I woke up to Sleepy Hollow
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher)
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Look like a fat booty Celine Dion
sex is on fire, I’m the King of Leon-a Lewis
beyond the truest
hey, teacher, teacher
tell me how do you respawn the students?
and refresh the page and restart the memory?
respark the soul and rebuild the energy?
we stopped the ignorance, we killed the enemies
sorry for the night demons still visit me
the plan was to drink until the pain over
but what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?
fresh air, rolling down the window
too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your wins low
don’t make me pull the toys out, huh
don’t make me pull the toys
and fire up the engines
and then they make noooise
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher)
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
At the mall there was a seance
just kids, no parents
then the sky filled with heron
(I saw the devil) In a Chrysler LeBaron
And the hell, it wouldn’t spare us
(And the fires did declare us)
(But after that, took pills, kissed an heiress)
(And moved her back in Paris)
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher)
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Can we get much higher? (higher, higher)
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ol' Anonymous,
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Silly Anonymous. Keep thinking through this.
This photo no more endorses "KanYe"'s immoral lyrics than you posting them IN FULL in your comment. You didn't even bleep out the F-word or anything! Straight silly.
If anything, this photo does offend me. I can't BELIEVE someone of Blake's caliber would post a photo with such a blatant expression of disloyalty to the state of Texas! Blake needs to check his heart, for reals!! This post of Kanye (which I'm inclined to spot as subtle glamorization) could be symptoms of Texas-treason in its early stages. You can bet I'll be monitoring this blog closely from now on!!
Anyway.
I look forward to your response, but since you won't be "wasting your time" on this site again, I guess I'll never hear from you, unless of course you do revisit--which would be an endorsement of lying if I'm following you, right? Maybe it's just me.
Gone,
Ep
Dear Anonymous,
I try not to respond to anonymous comments, but I think some clarification may help. This picture is supposed to be funny. It is not simply me posting a random picture of a rapper I like or endorse. People who know me know I am a Mavs fan. The Mavs (short for Mavericks) are a basketball team in Dallas and are part of the National Basketball Association (commonly called the NBA). In the top picture, Kanye is rocking a Mavs hat. In the bottom picture, Kanye is hiding his Mavs hat because he is taking a picture with Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade is a player for the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat are also a team in the National Basketball Association. The Heat made it to the championship this year where they lost to the Dallas Mavericks. Get it? Funny, right? Kanye is a Mavs fan until a Heat comes around. Then he hides his hat. Make sense now? Still lost?
As Ep noted, please "bleep" out any future expletives you are tempted to post on this website.
Ep, no Texas treason going on here.
B,
To bring things full circle and call it a day, I had to [my radio edits in CAPS and brackets]:
"Jesus Walks"
Yo, We at war
We at war with terrorism, racism, and most of all we at war with ourselves [A-FREAKIN-MEN!!]
(Jesus Walks)
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
(Jesus Walks with me) with me, with me, with me [fades]
You know what the Midwest is?
Young & Restless [AND REFORMED]
Where restless [BLACK FOLK] might snatch your necklace
And next these [BLACK FOLK] might jack your Lexus
Somebody tell these [BLACK FOLK] who Kanye West is
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death is
Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless Uhhhh!
Try to catch it Uhhhh! It's kinda hard hard
Getting choked by the detectives yeah yeah now check the method
They be asking us questions, harass and arrest us
Saying "we eat pieces of [FECAL MATTER] like you for breakfast"
Huh? Yall eat pieces of [FECAL MATTER]? What's the basis?
We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases
A truck full of crap rental car from Avis
My momma used to say only Jesus can save us
Well momma I know I act a fool
But I'll be gone 'til November I got packs to move I Hope
[Hook x2]
(Jesus Walks)
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
(Jesus Walks with me)
The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
(Jesus Walks)
And I don't think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
(Jesus Walks with me)
I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long
To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers
(Jesus walks with them) [POST CONVERSION]
To the victims of Welfare for we living in hell here [HECK] yeah
(Jesus walks with them)
Now hear ye hear ye want to see Thee more clearly [IN SCRIPTURE]
I know he hear me when my feet get weary
Cause we're the almost nearly extinct
We rappers are role models we rap we don't think
I ain't here to argue about his facial features
Or here to convert atheists into believers [BUT A FEW WOULD BE NICE]
I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers
The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus [A GOOFY CO-HOST?]
So here go my single dog radio needs this
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus
That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes
But if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? [GOOD POINT ACTUALLY]
Well let this take away from my spins
Which will probably take away from my ends
Then I hope this take away from my sins
And bring the day that I'm dreaming about
Next time I'm in the club everybody screaming out
(Jesus Walks)
God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down
(Jesus Walks)
The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
(Jesus Walks)
And I don't thing there's nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
(Jesus walks with me... fades)
I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long
Boo yeah, black folk.
Ep
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