Chorus And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.īehold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel, God with us. The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the Covenant, whom you delight in behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.īut who may abide the day of His coming, and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner's fire.ħ. Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts: Yet once a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.Īnd I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come. Chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God.Įv'ry valley shall be exalted, and ev'ry moutain and hill made low the crooked straight and the rough places plain.Ĥ. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. Accompagnato TenorĬomfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. He might get to do that with music when the court order expires, in 2025.1. “There’s more in my heart that I would like to speak about and show,” he said. Cecilia Goodwin, Digga D’s lawyer, said that the rapper had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder after the attack.īut much of Digga D’s experience remains hidden, for now. He was stabbed with a blade fashioned from a tuna can, according to an official at the Ministry of Justice who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and who spoke on the condition of anonymity. How Digga D lost the use of his eye - the story he was so hesitant to talk about - can be found in prison records. After Stormzy named him onstage as one of his influences, the other prisoners started banging on their doors, yelling Payper’s name.Īfter that, he wrote nearly 30 new songs, he said. Stormzy, perhaps Britain’s most commercially successful rapper, was performing on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival, and Payper could hear fellow inmates in nearby cells listening to the rapper’s performance. He said that in some ways, the authorities’ treatment of drill recalled the heyday of punk in the 1970s, when the police shut down concerts and the BBC banned a hit single by the Sex Pistols. Keir Monteith, a criminal defense attorney based in London, is advising a government-funded research project studying how rap lyrics are used as evidence in court. In total, YouTube has removed more than 500 music videos over the past three years, the report says. That is more than twice the number it took down in 2019. In 2020, the video platform removed 319 music videos at the force’s urging, according to a police report obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
Yet the London police has recently stepped up its efforts to remove drill music videos from YouTube. “We are not targeting music artists, but addressing violent offenders,” she added. Rebecca Byng, a spokeswoman for the London police’s violent crime unit, said in an email that criminal behavior orders had “a wide-ranging scope, and go beyond addressing lyrics which incite violence,” adding that they were an important tool to “steer young people away from violence.” Classical Music: 2021 was a year of reawakening for the art form, with performances that spoke meaningfully to the moment.Jazz Albums: Even the big-statement albums this year had a feeling of intense closeness.Pop Albums: Recordings with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.Best Songs: A posthumous political statement and a superstar’s 10-minute redo are among the 66 best tracks of 2021.From Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year.