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Pastor-Rapper Trip Lee Talks the Hypocritical Hip-Hop Industry, Skeptical Christians

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on September 29, 2014 at 3:13pm

Trip Lee
(PHOTO: FACEBOOK/TRIP LEE)

Trip Lee, an award-winning MC, author and speaker, embraces the uniqueness of being a “pastor-rapper,” but he has some frustrations with a hypocritical hip-hop industry as well as with Christians who kick against his particular brand of artistic and cultural expression.

Lee’s dual career path is a contrast in many ways to that of another popular rapper and pastor, Mason “Ma$e” Betha. Betha has swung between putting in time at the pulpit and laying out tra

Pastor Mason Betha Called a Hypocrite By His Church Members

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on March 28, 2014 at 12:14am

“Too bad I don’t never keep my word.” Ironically those are final words in the rap that Pastor Mason Betha, better known as Ma$e delivers on the R&B song, “Tricky Situation.” Turns out, it is a fitting phrase for the nature of the hypocrisy he is being accused of by members of his congregation.

The 36-year-old leader of El Elyon International Church has returned to his bad boy rapper roots to the chagrin of his loyal congregants—a lifestyle he, for a while, denounced after coming to know Je

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