Kelly, Danja, Stargate, and Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis, among others. His proper debut, the accomplished and promising I Gotta Make It, was released by Atlantic in July 2005.įeaturing an introduction from Aretha Franklin and productions from Taylor, Organized Noize, and Warryn Campbell, it debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200.įollow-up Trey Day, released in October 2007, raised his profile. Trey received his diploma and immediately moved to New Jersey to work with Taylor.Īs he was working on his debut album - not to mention several collaborations with Lil Kim, Trina, and Snoop Dogg - Trey Songz released some street-level mixtapes under his alias, the Prince of Virginia. Taylor encouraged Trey to finish high school first, and then they could talk about a possible music career. Trey did just that, and after winning numerous talent shows in his native Petersburg, Virginia, the 15-year-old singer met Troy Taylor, who had worked behind the scenes with such artists as Patti LaBelle, SWV, and B2K. When his friends heard his perfect tenor voice, however, they pushed him to drop rap and start crooning. While growing up, Tremaine Aldon Neverson loved hip-hop, but the only RB he could get into was by R.
Kelly, was sought out by A-list RB and rap artists such as Scarface, Bun B, Mary J.īlige, Toni Braxton, and Diddy, and was nominated for a handful of Grammy awards.
Within the first decade of his career, he released five albums that peaked within the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 chart, as well as 15 solo singles that hit the Top Ten of the Hot RBHip-Hop chart.ĭuring that time, he was one of the few RB artists to sustain mainstream status. Human kind has always and will always live in a world of sacred space and time.The Top Ten RB hit Na Na, as well as Smartphones, were issued in early 2014 as the first singles from Junes Trigga. For example, Christians participate in Holy Communion to show that "Old things are passed away" and sins are forgiven. Also, Sacred Time is set apart for worship. These are places of which something of sacred importance has happened to influence these two religions. Examples of Sacred Space for Christianity is Mt Golgatha. This chapter ends with talking about Sacred Space and Time. Fascinans is what provokes the joyfull, worshiping, and thanfull feelings we have. Tremedum is a the particular dread or awe we feel in the presence of the sacred. Mysterium is the idea that makes us feel what is happening is a mystery or beyond our control. It is the experience that cannot be lessened or explained. The Numinous is bascally the Heart of Religion. This leads into the theme of looking at the Holy as Mysterium, Tremendium, and Facinans along with the concept of the Numinous experience. Van der Leeuw writes "Power awakens a profound feeling of awe which manifests itself both as fear and as being attracted." Also, he speaks to the idea that there is no religion without fear, however, there is also none without love. Our first impulse in the face of sacred power is fear, but we are also drawn in and amazed by it. Also, we learn that something unique about sacred power is that it creates a mixed response. This power is what creates a special place and value in our minds for the sacred. The Distinction between a uniquely effective power and that which is relatvively common and powerless is the contrast between the sacred and the profane. This Chapter starts out by introducing the concept of Sacred Power.