La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
The microphone i
Take (took, taken). You shake (shook, shaken)
Wake (woke, woken) to the style im creating
Think (thought, thought). Seek (sought, sought)
Listen to the lesson that i teach (taught, taught)
Dont sleep (slept, slept). I creep (crept, crept)
I sneak (snuck, snuck up). You leap (leapt, leapt)
I keep (kept, kept) having fun
Im never beat (beat, beaten); i win (won, won)
Do (did, done). Begin (began, begun)
Shoot (shot, shot) —no, i dont own a gun
I lead (led, led) so i can feed (fed, fed)
The knowledge you need, straight to your head
When i bring (brought, brought) it, you catch (caught, caught) it
Sit backrelax. Dont fight (fought, fought) it
Please don't
Freeze (froze, frozen) when i speak (spoke, spoken)
Its real. You can feel i dont steal (stole, stolen)
I choose (chose, chosen) the very best rhymes and
Write (wrote, written) them into my lines and
Into your mind. When we meet (met, met)
Ill bet (bet, bet) i wont let you forget
(Forgotforgotten). I get (got, gotten)
Every head nodding. Dont think about stopping
Just come (came, come)
This is hip hop. I dont sing (sang, sung)
I sting (stung, stung). I cling (clung, clung)
On each and every word, you hang (hung, hung)
Its not enough to
Dream (dreamt, dreamt); youve got to spend (spent, spent)
Time on your goals. Please lend (lent, lent) me your
Ear. Come near and ill lay (laid, laid)
Down this new sound that i make (made, made)
I hope you dont say that you think its junk
I hope you dont think that i stink (stank, stunk)
If youre thirsty for English, come drink (drank, drunk)
Because i sink (sank, sunk) all competition when they
Hear (heard, heard) that i give (gave, given)
Encouragement when i spit (spat, spat)
Never quit (quit, quit); dont sit (sat, sat)
Yeah, i like it like that. Ill even kneel (knelt, knelt)
And beg you to express what you feel (felt, felt)
I rise (rose, risen) when i drive (drove, driven) through
The beat; tap your feet as you ride (rode, ridden)
Those that hide (hid, hidden) i find (found, found)
If you flee (fled, fled) then ill track you down
Now you see (saw, seen) that i mean (meant, meant)
Every word of the message that i send (sent, sent)
I show (showed, shown) i can fly (flew, flown)
Now you know (knew, known) i shine (shone, shone)
Ill throw (threw, thrown) you the ball. Its your turn
Grow (grew, grown) with the verbs that youve learned
Grammar through lyrics i draw (drew, drawn)
Peace to ells, now i go (went, gone)!