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" One of my passions is helping people understand the Word. I think the most important thing we should be thinking about is who created us and how we were created to live. So I thought that I want to spend a lot of my time actually studying God's Word. "

Trip Lee

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Trip Lee

Just

Things

" There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say. "

" I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things. "

" Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives. "

" Some of us care about this - justice and unity - just because it's in style right now. "

" I would like the secular world to know that the Scriptures are about the things that we wrestle with every day. The Scriptures are not ignorant. Life is really hard. We know that things don't always go well and that our hearts don't naturally obey God. "

" I'm not good at very many things. The stuff I'm good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for. "

" The fact that God is for me, that is huge for me when I am thinking about fighting my own sins, because my art tells me that God is against you. "

" I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring. "

" I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It's been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we're told. "

" I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc. "

" Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties. "

" I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview. "

" When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear Christian rap is something very different from what I do. "

Trip Lee

Rapper

I Am

" It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop's popularity equals racial unity. "

Trip Lee

Dangerous

Unity

" Before I walk onto the stage, it's about the centrality of Jesus and just really keeping a focus on Jesus as opposed to ourselves. "

" When I meet pastors, I'm not like, 'Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.' Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should. "

Trip Lee

You

Meet

" The gospel is the power of God for salvation for all who believe, not just old, black grandmothers or not just old, white Republican guys. "

" I've definitely seen huge shifts, but the church is a little afraid of hip-hop, and hip-hop is a little afraid of the church. It's a weird middle area I'm often stuck in. "

" What I see in Scripture are the priorities: My wife was beautiful to me, and she loved God, and we got along well. When I look in Scripture for what I want in a wife, here she is, right here. "

Trip Lee

Beautiful

God

" Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately. "

" My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever. He uses a lot of similes and metaphors. He's a beast of a rapper. "

Trip Lee

Start

Music

" There was a time when I was in my sins and I was God's enemy, but now I have been purchased in Christ, and God is for me. He is not going to do anything or command anything that is not ultimately for my good and for His glory. "

Trip Lee

Good

Time

" If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument. "

" I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes. "

" I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music. "

" I always assumed I'd marry a black woman. "

" God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Don't sleep on that. "

" I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything. "