My
ears are prone grabbing rap lines. My spirit is quick to reverberate when the
words in the music are used graciously in a priceless and timeless masterpiece.
It
is easy to say that all good music must be celebrated without prejudice to the
color, race, age or sex of the artist or language in which the song was
recorded.
However,
if you speak English Language and you are excited about learning to get better
at it, then rap music will get you feeling blessed especially when you can
listen, pick the lines and write them down yourself. This is how I get to score
songs that I am passionate about.
In
this article, I want to focus on three songs done by Lecrae the amazing gospel
rap paramount personality:
- Praying for you
- Boasting
- All I need is you
Am
not sure I know when these songs were released or what particular album they
came in, not that I don’t care to find out, but I am too carried away by the divine
fire in the songs and I believe, especially, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is
the ultimate etymology of such rap music with spiritually righteous lyrics. The
Grace, love and hope communicated is highly contagious-I must confess.
Very
realistic and personally relating my own life situation, the song ‘Praying for
you’ begins with “Father am praying for a friend, he and I are pretty close,
and outta all my friends for this one am concerned the most”. These lines are
important to me because it won’t profit me nothing if I do all the good in the
world and fail to do myself a favor.
Faced
with choices daily, the integrity of an individual is always tested in the
battle for the triumph of good over evil. Getting tempted to lust and fall is
human but the good news is we have received power to become Godly so as not to
be tossed around by our innate whims and caprices. Letting God have his way
with me and concealing nothing places me on the pedestal to receive #Grace and
#Mercy
The
song “Boasting” takes me to that place of total surrender where like a soldier
I respond to the command ‘lay down your arms’. Am so happy when I remember that
it was a boy of 10, the son of a colleague that got me to listen and love this
song. When I was that age, I was already in love with rap music, we were
Christians growing up but rap music was outlawed.
“…without
the cross there’s only condemnation, if Jesus wasn’t executed there’s no
celebration”. The story of God being personified, his suffering, his death,
burial, resurrection and ascension is the only true reason for our boasting.
“God
has never been obligated to give us life, if we fought for our rights we’d be
in hell tonight” As I recognize am not my own and that the creator made me for
a purpose I receive His #love, #grace, #kindness and #mercy displaying his
glory poured out to everyone.
“All
I need is you” is personally my favorite love song, the lyrics resounds the
need I have for a savior because I can self destruct if living by myself is
what am good at. “…to keep me on that right path and the right math is you plus
nothing’s everything, you’re my everything…” in the art of living right, the
process of calculating using numbers helps me arrive at a definite result. As
it obtains in mathematics, I am quite confident that when the power of God
backs me up in life, I have all I need.
Rap
being a type of popular music with a fast strong rhythm and words which are
spoken fast gives the listener a need to be being keenly attentive. The chords,
music notes, rhyme scheme and poetic accuracy flawlessly accompanies the richly
worded song.
“Unconditional love” much talked about in our world today is most desirable. The rapper tells of needing nothing more having received such an impeccable love. There are really no adjectives for the awesomeness of the one who calls out to all who believe. Truly, hope characterises the lifestyle of us recipients.
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