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MP3 MeccaCentric - hip hop+sufism=
4 MP3 Songs
HIP HOP/RAP: Alternative Hip Hop, WORLD: World Fusion
Details:
MeccaCentric began rapping and deejaying over twenty years ago in his home town of Jackson, Mississippi. He was one of several local artists chosen by B-Boy Records to perform at the infamous Valentines Day concert in 1988.
His group won ''Best New Artist'' and ''Best Rap Record'' at the 1989 Jackson Music Awards. He has opened for such acts as: Boogie Down Productions, Jodeci, Rob Base, Redhead Kingpin, Young and Restless, 2 Live Crew, Too Short and Sinbad as well as other artists. He was part of the underground hip-hop crew ''Mental State of Mind'' in the early nineties when he began a study of comparative religion.
In 1999 he embraced Islam and began studying with a variety of Sufi teachers.
In 2002 he moved to North Carolina to study with Sufi teacher Hajj Mustafa Ali with whom he lived with for a year. He lives in Durham, NC with his wife Khadija and son Adam.
lyrics to:Time is a Sword
Chorus:
The One that creates was a treasure not shown
Manifestation was from love to be known
Opportunity is precious, time is a sword
You gotta know yourself, if you wanna know the Lord
Do you really wanna know where you come from?
Would you rather walk around deaf, blind, dumb?
I go way back before my birth
Promised to be a caretaker of the earth
So I be on my job, you be on yours
How you wakin'' up if you love the snores
And you give it applause and think that because
You got a little scratch that your deeds won''t catch
Back up to you, back up! ,what you need to do
Go to the shelf you can take it down read it too
Be it to ,be it true say I, say what?
I say so what’s the delay huh?
I’m a mirror just to flip it around
So much grime need to strip it on down
This sound you found a light introduction
Then I hand you over to habib for instruction
Chorus
Creations deeply rooted in mystery
Knowledge of the unseen pervades our history
Everything you see, every type of community
Rests upon the timeless, spaceless unity
All of mankind is already complete
As a middle people where heaven and earth meet
Beyond the beyond sent a spark of Itself
To animate you imparting the true wealth
Personality forms around the self that’s original
To seek out and nourish the spirit becomes critical
Fusing the field between matter and spirit
Its in our genetics, and we''re meant to hear it
Chorus
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