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 update: In September of 2006, production began on a rap project based on The Words called Wordz from the Street. Layzie Bone, of Bone Thugs N-Harmony recorded the first track, "Blessed Are You" from the chapter called "The Blessings." Many more artists are joining the project. READ MORE ABOUT WORDZ FROM THE STREET "Blessed are
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news: Abiodun Oyewole (The Last Poets) narrates The Words In January of 2008, founding Last Poets member Abiodun Oyewole went into the studio in Harlem to record the complete narration of The Words. A few weeks later, Peter Atanasoff and Jonathan David Burkes began recording music that will accompany Abiodun's narration. This audio book will be available in a few months as a free download, and as a CD package that will be released on iTunes. Stay tuned for more information on this project that will be two-CD's in length, the complete text of The Words read by this poet and activist who has become a regular contributor to The Words, including "Is He the Living God?" recorded for Wordz from the Street. special: Hear "Is He the Living God?" by the Last Poets. special: Easter Message 2008 from Charles Henderson and Lee Cantelon bonus feature: Rapper KRS-ONE Talks about his faith and music, "Keep it right!" "Practice faith by performing random acts of faith. In troubling situations, be still and know that your God is God!" also: check out KRS-ONE's website..."KRS-One has been spreading the Word from the beginning." - L. Cantelon
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"The Words, is a book outlining Jesus' teachings — and distinguishing those teachings from what Cantelon views as the dogmatic interpretations that have evolved in organized religion."
– Elysa Gardner, USA Today
“This is the area we need to hold to our hearts--those who think that Christ is somehow a complacent and hypocritical deity for a society which has the same faults. Christ is always rebellion--no-one and no-thing can hold Him.”
- David Tibet, Current 93
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Lee Jones has written thirteen songs based on The Words.
The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard has gone on to become "the best reviewed album of 2007" (Borders) Discover the story behind this incredible album, and the reason why Mojo and Uncut magazine gave it their highest praise, calling it "the
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"Consulting theologians and Bible scholars during the 1990s, photographer, writer, graphic artist, Lee Cantelon assembled a small book presenting the words of Jesus Christ (just Jesus' words, not the stuff surrounding them) in a fitting translation called The Words. He did it for the purpose of presenting those words to people who were not "religious" — people who were put off by organized religion or even offended by it. In 2005, using artist Marc Chiat's studio (on Exposition Boulevard) as the recording space, he invited a number of musicians to begin assembling backing tracks for a spoken word rendition of his book (Mike Watt was just one participant, reading "The Harvest" over the music). Rickie Lee Jones was invited to participate in the summer of 2006..." (read more) - THOM JUREK