“Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.” —Jerome Two years ago Ed Young traveled to Australia for the very first time to speak at a Hillsong conference with Pastor Brian Houston. Perhaps this was when he first began using the phrase “a whole nutha level”. Ed is famous for “borrowing” others’ ideas and utilizing them for his own advantage (as seen in his rap video), and he readily admits that he found “HNL” in the Urban Dictionary. In an interview with Houston (Podcast #25) conducted on June 4, 2008, Ed spelled out the words for “HNL”, as indicated above. In case you plan to use this phrase yourself, it was first coined on Mad TV and is correctly spelled “hole nother level” in the Urban Dictionary. (For reasons of social niceties, we have added a "W" to the word "hole" when the word is preceded by an "A"). During the interview, Ed explains that he is the son of Ed Young, Sr., who has been the longtime pastor at Second Baptist Church in Houston. Yes, Junior grew up Southern Baptist. Ed Jr. served Continue reading →
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