By Movieguide® Staff
Christian artist Trip Lee blends praise music and hip-hop with new collective BRAG Worship.
“I’m not a worship leader, but I am a worshipper,” he told the Christian Post. “This music, this collective, it’s for us. This is my expression of it.”
Lee, who has previously released eight albums and has worked for many years in pastoral ministry, explained that BRAG Worship came out of his desire to broaden the definition of worship music, while still remaining focused on God’s glory.
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“Sometimes when we walk into church on Sunday morning, it feels like we walked into a world that’s different from the real world that we live in,” he said. “When we open the Psalms, the songbook we have in the Bible, it’s not just full of happy feelings. A lot of them are like, ‘Hey, I have no friends. I have no shelter; no one cares for me.'”
Lee continued, “‘But God, you’re my shelter. You care for me. You’re my redeemer.’ And that lament and praise stand side by side in the Psalms, and I wanted it to stand side by side in my songs too. This music is honest about how hard life is, and then still trying to praise and make much of God in the midst of it.”
BRAG WORSHIP released the EP For Your Glory earlier this year. In an interview with Rapzilla, Lee said, “This is a worship album. They’re all meant to be songs for Christians to sing together.”
“I’ve been so blessed by great worship songs…and I always wonder, ‘Oh man, could I write some of those?’” he continued. “And I want there to be all different kinds of them.
Lee said, “I think people like, sometimes I can put worship music in too much of a box, and they can think ‘it only sounds like this,’ or ‘it only sounds like that’. And so I’m like, yeah, if Jesus is a savior of all peoples, all nations, all tribes, then, you know, there should be as many cultural expressions of worship as there are cultures. So here’s my contribution to that space.”
Speaking to Relevant Magazine about what BRAG Worship has taught him, Lee shared, “I think God continues to teach me that it’s fitting to depend on Him. Like my boast is in Him. It’s His strength at the end of the day that’s going to pull things together…and a record like this where there’s so much collaboration and so much is out of my hands — He’s taught me that lesson even deeper.”
For Your Glory and its eight tracks are available now.
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