Ashes to Ashes

[Sample: Jorge Ben Jor]

A semana acaba num dom—

[Verse: Jay Electronica]

The long road to one's own destiny ain't paved

This treacherous path through the wilderness is only for the brave

Sometimes you'll seem like a madman, shot out of a cave

All everybody else see is death, all I see is the parade

The soul that gave birth to my grandmother was a slave

So I refuse to walk on by crying like Isaac Hayes

For every day I missed Salah, I intensify zakat

Told the truth from the Pyramid top like Anwar Sadat

Ashes to ashes, I took my time like molasses

With these civilization clashes I dish out to the masses

I'm like a miniature Jesus of Nazareth

Slugged up with my Solja Rag in my Reebok Classics

If they ask what's my sign, falling rocks ahead, hazardous

The edge of my fort is dern and my sheath is the jaggedest

I'm exorcising all demons, internal, external

I got it out the mud, now I'm climbing out the inferno

My flesh, bone, and dark matter may pass away

But every bar I spit in the name of the Christ will remain eternal

You couldn't walk a mile in my ruby slippers from God

Or even replicate one ink drop from my Holy Journal

[Outro: Dr. Wesley Muhammed PhD & Jay Electronica]

Can you, can you– what do, what-what do you mean when you say the God of religion?

As– is that as opposed to 'the God of' something else?

Or what do– what do you mean when you say 'the God of religion'?

Why do you use such a qualifier, because you could just say God

And people understand what you mean when you say God

But why do you say 'God of Religion'?

Yeah, thank you, I did use that language

Language deliberately in contrasting it with another God in particular

The God of philosophy (Mm, mm)

That in my book, um, 'The Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof that the Black Man is God'

There's a contrast between the God of religion, which is the God found in all of the scriptures

Not just in my scriptures, not just the religious scriptures of

The Bible and the Quran, but also the scriptures

Of the hieroglyphic, of Medu Neter scriptures of Ancient Egypt, the Sumerian

Religious theological writings of scriptures, of ancient Mesopotamia

The God religious texts, ancient religious texts are in agreement about the reality and nature of God

And so I use the language "God of religion" to refer to the God as gleaned from ancient religious texts