Trip Lee
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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$e” Betha. Betha has swung between putting in time at the pulpit and laying out tra
Dear Mason Betha aka Murder Ma$e aka S.A.N.E. Minister Mason Betha aka Pastor Betha of El Elyon International Church,
I’m trying so hard not to judge you right now, but what is you doin’ man? (I’m sayin’ this Atlanta style since that is where you have lived since 1999.) I just read on TMZ that you, the pastor of El Elyon International Church, up and dipped on your congregation and returned to the “rap game full time.” Where they do that at? I knew something was up when, while flipping throug
Mase says goodbye to El Elyon International.
Over the past several years, Mase has been focusing on his ministry and doing all he can to build up his two churches in Atlanta and Phoenix. Now, thousands of followers later, the “Nothing” rapper, is saying goodbye to the church for good.
TMZ, first broke the story, the rapper, who left the music industry back in 1999, came under fire earlier this year after he divorced his wife, Twyla Betha. Mase was known for his sermons on family values and
“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
