Welcome to my corner of the universe to share thoughts, inspirations, and questions that arise while on my journey for Jesus. My goal is to encourage, provoke and relate to others in the body of Christ but since I'm a young, single woman, a good bit of what I say will reflect that perspective. We're all in the same struggle but hopefully some of this Holy Hotness can edify (and entertain) us along the way.
Yes--I'm late with the chune. No--I haven't forgotten about you. I've just been a little 'distracted' lately... *sigh* Pray for a sista!
Anyway, I still wanted to fling sumthin' hot your way real quick to kick off your week. Here's a banger by Trip Lee, featuring KB and Andy Mineo--all of the infamous 116 Clique: One-Sixteen. Enjoy and be blessed!
My sincere apologies to everybody for being a day late... the dollar is in the mail. ;o) I hope everybody had a fantastic week. Mine was 'aight', nothing new or noteworthy to report. So with no further ado, leh we fling sum chuuuuune!
I've been trying to play catch-up on my music; mostly via podcasted radio shows and Pandora. I have a 90s R&B station on the latter that just transports me back to my care-free days of being a teen--LOVE IT! On iTunes, I'm subscribed to the HolyCulture/RapFest Radio podcast and that feeds my need for hype and holy sounds. That's where I heard this week's chune that also happens to be a sample from the late 90s banger by Busta Rhymes, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See. Andy Mineo, the Christian artist who re-made it into Hands High has this webisode project called "Saturday Morning Car-Tunez" where he's remixing "old" hip-hop hits, and you can check them out on his website: AndyMineo.com.
I love stuff like this because as one who overly appreciates phat beats, the lyrics are clean--Christian, even--PLUS I can bang them just as hard as the original. From the first couple seconds of the track, my head was bobbin' like "Whaaaaat?! That's my JAM!" You know how that goes... LOL Anyways, have a blast as you get ya Hands Up to this right heah!
Hey errybody! Ready for the weekend? I surely am [when am I NOT?]! LOL This week was fairly interesting, as I mentioned earlier. I'm still chatting it up with the one guy but I'm thinking he needs to fall back just a tad... last night he asked me for my number and I politely declined. Why? One reason is sensible and the other is superficial...
sensible: I just met you online and I don't "know" you like that.
superficial: *in my mind* Ummm, he's 4 inches shorter than me. It shouldn't matter since this is just convo, but still...
Meanwhile, in real life: *crickets chirping* O_o
Anyways, this week's chune continues in the vein of my superficial-ness, somewhat. No major spiritual revelation occurred while I was listening... I just thought the sound was plain-out WICKED!!! Being the musical connoisseur that I am, I enjoy all aspects of 'ear candy', and Cash or Christ definitely tickled my auditory fancy.
I've never been a fan of heavy metal/grunge rock, but I consider myself musically mature enough to appreciate when something sounds good--regardless of my personal preferences. What's really cool about this chune is that the producers/sound engineers behind 116 Clique had an ingenious idea and executed it flawlessly: take hip-hop songs, strip the boom-bap and lay the vocals over hard rock tracks. The result? Pure auditory awesomesauce [FYI, this is off an album like that called Amped]!! I love the fusion of musical genres and this is as delicious as it gets. Please believe that yo' girl is wildin' out to this head-banger! Enjoy!
*whew* What a looooonnnnnng week! I haven't been this excited to see another Friday since... last Thursday night. LOL But I'm especially krunk today because of the upcoming holidays--that's right, I said holidayS with an "S"! Here in the U.S. Virgin Islands, we celebrate the 4th of July (because this is an American territory) but we also celebrate Emancipation day on July 3rd... our emancipation from slavery in 1848, that is. Here's some background info for the history buffs.
What does all that have to do with today's chune? I'm so glad you asked! ;o) I'm flingin' Get Loose by Trip Lee of the 116 Clique because it's just too appropriate. This holiday weekend, I'll be meditating on emancipation of a territory and independence of a nation but this track celebrates the spiritual freedom that we have in Christ. Can I get a "AMEN" someboday?!?!! *wheeze* [Yeah, I didn't even try to resist that one! LOL] But as the track kicks off with Galatians 5:1, it's a reminder that ALL bondage was broken by Jesus and we are free to meet our fullest potentials! Now if that don't make ya wanna shake it up, this gospel banger definitely will!
