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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

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“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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