Words matter. These are the best Trip Lee Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
As a black man who doesn’t know another black man who hasn’t had strange run-ins with police officers, it’s impossible for us not to think about whether that could have been us – based on our country, based on our culture, based on our past experiences.
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.
The industry is starting to be more open to what we do. I just don’t want us to be boxed in whatever people assume Christian rap should be. We’re dudes who love hip hop, and we love Jesus, and that’s going to be apparent in our music.
My dad loved music, and he passed that on to me. I fell in love with hip-hop the first time I heard it. I started writing raps at a young age. I wasn’t a Christian at that point. I thought I was, but I don’t think I was, looking back on it.
I actually fell in love with hip-hop before I fell in love with Jesus. I’m a fan of hip-hop, I love hip-hop. I don’t even necessarily want to call myself ‘Christian rapper.’ You know, I don’t want to put myself in that little box.
The more we make our lives about us, then the more we waste our time. When we get older, we devote our lives to ourselves, and then we wasted it. If we want to devote our lives to something significant, something that matters, then we should devote our lives to the Lord Jesus.
God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Don’t sleep on that.
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.
Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties.
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.
I think I used to not know if I could be a good pastor because I think I had some things in mind that I thought were part of being a pastor that don’t necessarily have to be.
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.
It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.
I wanted to write a book specifically aimed toward young people. I wanted to write a book that anybody can read and enjoy, but I did want to aim it at young people and, even more specifically, urban young people.
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.
Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.
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.
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.
I just never want to do anything that’s going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.
‘Rise’ has a lot of different meanings. It’s a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.
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 never want to give people something I’ve already given them; I wanna give them something new, you know? So the people who’ve been enjoying my music for years, I hope they continue to enjoy.
There’s a difference between being excited about a trend and being excited about what God is already excited about.
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.
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 not good at very many things. The stuff I’m good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for.
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.