{"id":1473,"date":"2004-10-12T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2004-10-12T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T20:18:38","slug":"just-when-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/just-when-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When I Was a Mark Shea Fan<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it help somebody find Jesus, then great. I’m afraid it sounds pretty cringeworthy to me. One of the sure signs that a cultural trend is dead is when some Evangelical creates a Christian version of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hip hop is so not dead. Kanye is as mainstream as you get. He is in concert tonight with Usher, much to my Children Who Cannot Be There’s chagrin.
\n“Jesus Walks” is not s syrupy attempt at evangelising like much Christian Contemporary Rock. It is what it is, a song about what’s on a brotha’s mind, not to mention has a really good beat. It’s a good song at that and a relief from things like Juvenile’s Slow Motion<\/i>.
\nP.S. I’m still a fan.<\/p>\n

To the hustlas, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers
\nTo the victims of Welfare for we living in hell here hell yeah
\nNow hear ye hear ye want to see Thee more clearly
\nI know he hear me when my feet get weary
\nCuz we’re the almost nearly extinct
\nWe rappers are role models we rap we don’t think
\nI ain’t here to argue about his facial features
\nOr here to convert atheists into believers
\nI’m just trying to say the way school need teachers
\nThe way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus
\nSo here go my single dog radio needs this
\nThey say you can rap about anything except for Jesus
\nThat means guns, sex, lies, video tapes
\nBut if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
\nWell let this take away from my spins
\nWhich will probably take away from my ends
\nThen I hope this take away from my sins
\nAnd bring the day that I’m dreaming about
\nNext time I’m in the club everybody screaming out
\n(Jesus Walks)
\nGod show me the way because the devil trying to break me down
\n(Jesus Walks)
\nThe only thing that I pray is that me feet don’t fail me now<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it help somebody find Jesus, then great. I’m afraid it sounds pretty cringeworthy to me. One of the sure signs that a cultural trend is dead is when some Evangelical creates a Christian version of it. Hip hop is so not dead. Kanye is as mainstream as you get. He is in concert tonight… Continue reading Just When I Was a Mark Shea Fan<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}