Trip Lee

“My journey was a very organic journey.”

“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.”

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

“I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.”

“Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.”

“The Cross Movement was a group that was a huge encouragement to me. The music was good. The content was good. It really spoke to my soul. It was good to have them around as someone I could learn from and really pattern myself after.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.”

“When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.”

“I don't' really have lots of hobbies. I like to read and hang out with my family. I'm a pretty boring person beyond that.”

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

“My wife, she knows me better than anybody else. She knows what I'm struggling with, and she knows where I'm at. And I have friends, pastors, and it's good not to have my only friends be people who think I'm special. It's really good to have people who think I'm just an ordinary guy.”

“'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.”

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

“Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.”

“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.”