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"Dedicated" is a song by American singer, songwriter, and record producer R. Kelly and his group Public Announcement from their debut collaboration album, Born into the 90's (1992). The song was written and produced by Kelly, dedicated to his mother, Joanne Kelly, who died in 1993. It was released by Jive Records in January 1993 as the fifth and last single from the album. The single was a top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and peaked at numbers 31 and 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, becoming the album's best charting single on the pop chart. An accompanying music video was released in January 1993. It was Kelly's first music video to be added to regular rotation by MTV. "Dedicated" was used in the 1993 film Menace II Society.
“Devotion may be compared to a chain with two extremities one of these is in the hand of the devotee and the other is in the hand of God. When the devotee draws the chain, God leaves Heaven and descends to the earth; when God draws the chain, the devotee enters into the kingdom of God even with his ego.”
“He took his time strapping on his customized armor and loading his weapon magazines, rifle, pistol, and assorted knives. For him, preparing for battle was a divine ritual, a blessing and sacrifice to the Holy Ones. He intended to show his devotion by expunging as many of the enemy as he could..”
“The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout; for they act on their ignorance, and fill themselves and others with miserable scruples and hard thoughts of God, and are as apt to call good evil as other men are to call evil good.”
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