The Breakfast Club - Best Of Full Interview: Tye Tribbett On Winning Grammy For Gospel, Battling Depression, Finding God Outside Of Church + More

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Hey. What up? Tide tribute.

Welcome, brother. What's up? Thanks for having me. What's up? Yo, how y'all feeling? Peace, Cal and good. And congratulations. We just won a Grammy, 2024 Grammy for best gospel album. So congratulations. Thank you, man.

That's three in total. Yeah, three in total, man. I'm so hype about that and excited. You know, it wasn't needed, but it's appreciated. Do you pray for stuff like that? Nah, I used to. Okay, okay. I used to, but I had to get my, you know,

the reason why I do what I do, I had to get that in order. Intention. Yeah, intention, exactly. Last year I was nominated for two Grammys and I just knew I was going to walk away with at least one. And when I walked away with none, it was like a soul check for me. Like, all right, well, why do you do what you do, bro? You got to just kind of reevaluate all of that stuff.

So I kind of like stopped needing it or stopped wanting it so bad and stopped so ambitiously going for it. Just stick to the reason why I do what I do. Have fun doing it. Bless the people. Show love. Give them Christ. And this year when I walked away with it, yo, we literally sat like in the back because

the Gospels, they don't present the gospel on the Grammys. We got the pre-awards. They could do ours like nine o'clock in the morning, you know what I'm saying? Had to wake up early and we went to the pre-show and it's open seating there so you can sit anywhere you want. So my manager like, yo, come on on let's go to the front bro. I'm like nah man I'm just gonna sit back here, we're gonna take a L. I don't like that long walk of shame, it's too far.

So let's just stay close to the exit. So we was in the back chilling, I got it all on video. And they called in everybody's name of course when they called my name I was like, what? Because I was really content. I had to learn just to be content because being overly ambitious just robs you of gratitude and then you just get on and feel like going down that rabbit hole. So you had to take that long walk up to the stage. I had to take that long walk.

You watching? I was running like, oh my goodness, trying to figure out what I'm going to say on the way because I literally didn't expect to win. But I was going to be there to show them how to be a good sore loser in Christ I'm just proud of you every time you nominated 13 nominations. Yo, ain't that crazy? Yeah, so even without winning the awards I'm like you're recognized like by so many to be nominated 13 times. True, true. I love that. After a while you just get used to, I should start celebrating the nominations.

You know what I mean? Because there's a lot of people that don't make it there either. Exactly, or you just pile up the L's. Like I'm 13 but I lost, nah, just beat. Yeah, albums, your work touch a lot of souls. Word, thank you for that. To me, I love that.

Thank you, I love doing what I do and why I do it. You know what I'm saying? People leave my shows, they're not just turned up, but they got hope, to me, I love that. Thank you. I love doing what I do and why I do it. You know what I'm saying? People leave my shows, they're not just turned up, but they got hope, you know what I mean? They got inspiration, you know what I mean? And they got healing and all of that's taking place. So I love what I do and why I do it, man. It's a blessing.

And you from Camden, right? Camden, New Jersey, bro. And then, so you lived there your whole life? Yeah. And then Florida? Then Houston for a year, then Florida. Okay. Yeah, so growing up in Cam Houston for a year, then Florida. OK. Yeah, so growing up in Kansas, you know.

Well, if you don't know, y'all should know here in New York. Y'all know about Kansas. Did you ever ask God why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why? Why? So many days I asked God why, but I had to get it in the trenches. I had to learn in the gutter how to be in the valley before you be in the mountain. You know what I'm saying? So I can know what it is to struggle, so I can know what, you know what I'm saying? So I can know what it is to struggle, so I can know what it is to be impoverished,

so I can know what it is, you know what I mean, to be underprivileged. So when it happened for me, I could reach back and say, hey, this is how you do it, this is how you come up and help others, man. I think it takes people like you, because when I see somebody like you have the success that they have from Camden,

you really don't hear a lot of good things about Camden. Nah, for real. This murder capital of the world, sometimes, or the most violent city, I remember those stats growing up, like, hey, Camden's on the map, we're in the newspaper, for what? Oh, most violent city, you know what I mean? And Baltimore, probably not too different, no shade to Baltimore. I love everybody, you know, coming out of that, of that, you know, I'm glad I had, like the little family church we had, little 50 member family church that we had

just kept us grounded, kept us focused. And I was just like tunnel vision the whole time. And slowly but surely I just saw myself not like my surroundings. Now that was a challenge in itself because you don't know you're different until you know you're different. And then you got family to deal with and friends to deal with who are like, oh don't change

on us, but bro if I don't change, I can't help you. So that was a challenge for me at a very young age, knowing I was talented, knowing I could play, knowing I could do music and knowing it was, what's the word, extraordinary. It wasn't just normal. So that change was a challenge, but I'm glad that all things work together for good, man. I want to ask you, being a gospel singer, do you feel like it's a lot of pressure on you

where it's almost like people look at your life differently, right? It's almost like they want you to be perfect. Do you have a hard time dealing with that? I dealt with that before I became a gospel artist. So speaking of growing up in this small church, my grandmother was the pastor first. My dad was on the organ.

I'm watching him every Sunday like, oh my God, this guy is amazing. I start playing then he became the pastor. So I got that pressure as a PK. The perfection, all of that. I got all of that pressure as a young kid, like 12, 9. Since I've been born, Spotlight's been on me to be the poster child for what Christ is. I'm like, yo. And past the kids be the worst.

Why you? They do. Past the kids be the worst. Because of the pressure though. Yeah. Because of the pressure though. Yeah. Because of the pressure. The pressure leads you to a life of crime? Damn. Too much handcuffs leads to rebellion, man.

You know what I mean? That legalism and that religious structure, it leads to like, yo, I'm not cut out for this. I didn't sign up for this. Y'all sign up for this. And the expectation is too much for me yo. So I just rebel. People go completely opposite of the ways that their parents bring them up when you bring them up too strict. I came up the same way. I had the pressure of perfection and I tried to

live up to it until my parents got a divorce. And I'm like, whoa! In my day that was like, you know, it's normal now. Every day it happens. Every day. Back then it was like a culture shock for me. It shattered my whole world. I was like, you know, it's normal now every day it happens every day back then it was like a culture Shot for me. It shattered my whole world. I was like bump the church then what I'm doing here Why am I being faithful to God in here? Man my dad I'm out. You know I'm saying that's when I went to all the clubs Did all that stuff. I didn't dance though. I just played at all the clubs I didn't you know, I still didn't drink and smoke I just went and played the keyboard at all the club, for like Music Soul, Child Jill, Scott,

everybody in the Philadelphia area, the roots and all that stuff. So I'm in there playing hymns to the beats, they don't even know what I'm doing. But I kinda had my little rebellious moment during that time just to find out who I am outside of y'all expectations, man. Outside of who y'all saying God is to me.

Let me find them for myself. Let me figure out who I am for myself and it's been the most liberating thing and I've been walking in that sense. I feel like that's a journey and that's a form of liberation every human has to experience in their life. And you should like strive to feel that. No literally whether you're religious or in church or not just a family just a family bond you know what I mean blood stick all of that family can bind you bro family can, you know what I mean? Blood, all of that. Family can bind you, bro. Family can keep you stuck in a level

that you're never supposed to be in for the rest of your life. People who love you can bind you through their care, through their love, through their expectations, through manipulation, through emotional manipulation. It's a whole lot of things that keep us from being who we're supposed to be in this earth because of other people's expectations

and demands. So I'm all about freedom, man. My whole life is freedom. My whole mantra is about freedom. So when you contact me or hear my music, people think it's energy. I like to call it the spirit of freedom, man, liberating everybody.

Because you need that. And when you don't know you bound, that's the worst. When you don't know you're bound, that is the worst. When you have become used to being manipulated, used to being controlled, used to being used, you can either be used or loved. You can't be both. You can either be used or loved. And a lot of people are being used and not realizing

they're not experiencing true love, man. So they just get used to being used. Like, all right, I'll do this for you. I'll come through for you. Whenever you call me, I'm there. And they think that's love, but a lot of them are being used. Did a lot of those triggers resurface in your marriage when you got separated?

Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Well, me and my wife separated. It was bad, yo. It was very, very bad for me because I didn't think my whole thing when my father messed up with my dad I'm like I ain't never gonna be like him. I'm never gonna do that So I went the pride way so my heart just really was like You know what I mean? I got more exposure than he ever got I got more notoriety You ever got and I'm still ain't gonna do what he did. I'm still, man, that pride comes before a fall.

And I fell hard. And I moved to LA, my wife was in Jersey. We just separated. I didn't think we would ever get back together again. I was just out there working on me. She was out there working on her, not really trying to get the marriage back together. And I think when you try to do that too soon,

sometimes you damage it because you just, your point is just to try to get them, get back together, but not work on you. Cause you've still got stuff you gotta work on. I still had stuff I had to work on. I still had weaknesses I had to work on. And so I'm out there working on me. She's working on her.

I'm praying, she's praying, and God kinda just brought our hearts back together. But through that whole time, I realized my mortality, I realized my humanism, I realized my weaknesses, I realized who I was for real. Like, this religious perspective, I became that. Like, now I'm a pastor, right? But I don't say I'm a pastor, I'm just a child of God with an assignment.

You understand what I'm saying? I'm a child of God who got something to say to a certain group of people. I don't become my assignment. You understand what I'm saying? But that's the world today. If I were to meet you in the street, the first thing I'll say is, what do you do?

Not who are you? You understand what I'm saying? And I think we lose who we are and what we do. And that's what I did. I got lost in all of that and I forgot who I was Now I read that you you you you battled with deep depression during that time. Yeah contemplated suicide. What got you out of that? Literally what got me out of suicide initially was just people it was just people around me too much. I couldn't get by myself It was always literally it wasn't my prayer life, it wasn't the Holy Ghost.

It was people, it was physical people around me. Ty you good? Ty you want to eat? Ty I'm like, could y'all just leave so I can pop these pills? Because y'all can just leave so I can just try to do all this stuff. But depression is a deep, deep, deep, dark spirit man. And I'm glad that I had people around me to help me get through that season man just all those thoughts and all those suggestions that come to us man and we feel like it's us I love that I call them I call them well I had a little series that I call Ghostbusters right so because there's other ghosts besides the Holy Ghost and if you don't

differentiate what ghosts are speaking to you, bro, you could be lost in that whole rabbit hole of depression, suicide, stress, all of these things. My issue is we let all these ghosts talk to us and we do what they say and we take on the moves and the attitudes of all these voices that are speaking to us. Therapy helps, counseling helps, but ultimately the Spirit of God is the only one that could really deliver us and rescue us from that, man. And I had that, I had that, but I was there and I couldn't believe I was there.

I love my life, I love my wife, I thought I was good. But then when tragedy hits you and you just can't take it and you just feel like you have no other option, it was really the embarrassment, It was really the pride of everybody know who I am. It really wasn't life was so hard. It was how I saw myself and how I thought I was. So when you just drop who you are, like yo, when you just kill who you think you are, man, just be nothing. The Bible says he who seeks

to save his life will lose it but if you lose your life you'll gain it so I lost the celebrity side of me I lost the gospel artists I lost I like forget me and a father forget me and a husband forget all these things I think I am I'm just I'm just tired right now yeah and then that's when salvation begin to come because you really are bigger than your image and it was all in the image that you were living in. Yeah but that's not social media today, you are your image today. Yeah, but I hate that. But you understand what I'm saying?

You are who you pose today. So that's why it's also a lot of suicide and a lot of depression, a lot more than we see it. Well how challenging is it to be real on social media? You understand what I'm saying? I know some people who will never be beyond the camera without their lashes on, or who will never get on there without certain things. So how challenging is it to be your authentic self

on social media, or onto the world? I don't think people are ready to bear that nakedness, you know what I'm saying? But it gonna take somebody who's under Shane to be like, hey, this is me, and love me or leave me, and just run the risk of that, but I don't think people are ready for that. I did that early, I got a little ponytail.

Yo, no word! It's still going around. That's why you trying to get it off. Yeah, I'm trying to get it off now, but I'm like, yo, that's when I first started, and it was out there, they put t-shirt, put it on t-shirts and everything, like, Jess, Jess. I think I bought one, I think I bought one. Yeah, it was out there they put t-shirt put it on t-shirts and everything like

You admire that but would you do it would you You admire that, but would you do it? Would you do it? If I had the ponytail, hell yeah. You would? Yeah. He wants a ponytail. He wants any type of hair. There is a picture of Charlamagne with hair and it starts back here, but you never posted that. I gotta see that.

I think you and your whole situation is just a testament to the glory of God. You and your wife are together now, right? Yeah, she's right here, right behind me, man. Oh, my baby! I'm shantaying the building. I'm shantaying. How you doing, girl? And she survived the car accident.

Y'all been through a lot. Yes. A whole lot. It seemed like a series of unfortunate events. You know what I'm saying? And her life, I mean, it just starts from, I was gonna say it starts from birth. Everybody's life starts from birth.

But with growing up with parents like I had, and she was basically fatherless for a long period of time, you grow up with a whole lot of unmet needs. You know what I mean? You have needs as a child that you should have met that you don't have met. Security, protection, encouragement, validation, all of these things, we, affection,

we have to grow up without that, right? So now we gotta make the choice of either like living without it or killing the desire period. So now we commit what we call, my man Tim Fletcher calls, soul suicide. So you commit soul suicide because as a child, a three year old, I need affection. I don't know I need it, but naturally I need it.

And if I don't get it, I just killed the desire for it. So now I'm in a relationship and I don't know how to be affectionate. You understand what I'm saying? All right, I got kids and I don't know how to show that because I've been killed that. So now we're trying to like restore those things and trying to do it in the context of marriage.

I married her at 18, I was 21. So that's a kid, those are kids. When I look at them ages now, I'm like, man, that was a kid, that was a really little kid. We really. How long y'all been together? 28 now? Yeah, that's right.

28 years. Me and my wife, 26. Oh, for real? And me and his wife, 30. Oh, word! Yeah. Oh, congrats, bro, congrats. So y'all know what I'm talking about.

Listen, I relate to your story so much, even when you talk about how, you know, what you saw in your father and not wanting to be like that. Yeah. And then finding out that you became just like that later. Do you understand? Oh my God.

Do you understand man? That's like a shock to your whole system man. You gotta do a whole lot of rewiring man. And my thing is, I think a lot of people know they need help. Where they go to get help is just as important as knowing you need help. So you know what I mean?

So therapists and all that stuff, I think that's all that's great, but I like to go to the source. I like to go to the creator, and I believe God is the creator of all of us. If you don't turn to God, man, you'll get abandoned, you'll get medicated, but the real healing is in Jesus Christ. I believe in God and therapy. Me too. Me too.

And plant-based medicine and healing and meditation. Okay. I can't smoke the weed with you brother, but I understand. But I feel you. It's from the heart. It's from the heart. He made it. I ain't mad at you bro. I ain't here to judge at all, but you know, I just feel like when something else becomes your source, something else is your source. You know what I mean?

And that's the scary part to me. I don't want another thing besides God to be my source. Everything could be a resource. And if God leads me to that, fine. But if I just choose it, I could damage myself and my life and what I want and desire to do or be in life. What do you think about some of the, God leads me to that, fine. But if I just choose it, I could damage myself and my life and what I want and desire to do or be in life. What do you think about some of the,

it seems like for a while, maybe the last 10 years, it seems like being a pastor was cool, right? So it was like, like everybody wanted to be a rapper, everybody wanted to be a podcast host. And it seems like a lot of people wanted to be a pastor for the wrong reasons. Yeah. How do you feel about that?

You missed that era, the pastor era? I don't remember the pastor era. You don't? Man, it was building them huge churches. I think the pastor phenomenon came from, oh man. Getting money in the church. It's a bunch of different things. You can speak to it more. But I think getting money in the church, and how you look,

and how you're praised is and you forget that he's supposed to be praised but how they praise you and all that type of stuff so yeah I see a lot of instagram passes out there but you know it is what you killed it you killed that whole thing I think a lot of pastors were not called the pastor they just you know study you go to school and then you just become a pastor like you become become a manager at, you know, Publix or something like that. And that's unfortunate for a lot of people who invest their, you know, money, time, attention, and their soul into people who they believe are really called from God. I don't believe a lot of pastors are. I think, I think it's a system now.

Oh God, it's a system. Everything is a system and systems work with or without God. So I think the institution of church is whack. I think how church is ran is whack. I think the religious system and structure is whack. I don't subscribe to it even though I grew up in it, I benefited from it, but I learned that God is not the church. And once I realized, whoa, God ain't church. For me, you know what I mean? I ain't from the streets, I'm from it, but I learned that God is not the church. And once I realized, whoa, God ain't church.

For me, you know what I mean, I ain't from the streets, I'm from the church. So that was a huge thing as well. It's in the Bible though, it says you can't even find God in a man-made temple. Why don't we read that though? How often do you hear that sermon? No, you hear, pastors make the people about the church. We've got the church name, we church in the church, in the bumper stick about the church. We've got the church name, we've churched in the church, in the bumper stick of the church.

The church should be about the people! The church should be about the people, but the church makes the people about the church. So all churches now are a movement, but they're not about the people. They're not about serving and loving the people. So I just kind of pulled that. We online right now. We're not even in a building, a physical building or nothing like that. So Live Church, shout out to Live Church.

I love y'all so much. Live Church Orlando, we're online right now. And because we had an issue with a building and now I'm like, hold up. What's going on here? Like do we need a bit, like you understand what I'm saying? Like in order to do what we need to do, affect people, serve and love and minister.

I'm just looking at everything differently at this point because the church structure has really I mean it's a lot of people who won't even go to church obviously. When the last time y'all been to church? I go every Sunday. Okay not you. I go bedside Baptist. Oh you on TV? I like watching Potter's House online. Oh yeah okay. I can't wait to jump down here and throw me like, no you don't. You say I go every Sunday. Online, online. Online, online. But why don't you go, but why not? But why not?

Honestly, it's because it's not too many churches that speak to my spirit. I really do like what they do in the Potters house. I think there's a lot of anointing in that church from Bishop T.D. Jakes, the Stryer, Jake Roberts, the Pastor, Torrey. So even when I'm in Dallas, if I'm there on like Saturday,

I'll stay just to go on like that. You physically go? Oh, absolutely. What about you, Envy? For me, I used to hate going to church as a kid, right? Because Baptist church, you're staying there four or five hours, especially if somebody's getting baptized, you got to dress up so it made me not necessarily love it,

right? And I noticed that with my kids when I took them to church, it became mature. Like, I gotta get dressed, I gotta, but now, on Sunday morning, we can cook breakfast together, sit down on the couch and watch it, and it's comfortable. They ain't gotta get dressed, mommy ain't gotta do the kids here,

they ain't gotta make sure things are right, cause they gotta sit in the, nah, it's not that at all. It's all about the church, which I prefer. So yeah, we go online, you know what I mean? And I don't have to just stick to one church. As a kid growing up in New York, we always had to go to Brooklyn and Grandma's church. There was no option.

It was not, let me try something else. Now on TV, one day I can turn to Buffalo Dollar, next day I can turn to Port, next day I can turn to, and I can get different feelings and my kids can as well. So I prefer that as well too. Why you don't go, Jess? I was, he was gonna ask me that. I was gonna get to it.

You saw my left hand like this. I was coming right to you, Jess. I was going like a fast ass. So, I'm gonna ask me, yeah. So, I still belong to my home church in Baltimore City, Restoration Christian Ecclesia Church, and I'm not in Baltimore on Sundays anymore. You know, because I have to be here.

I gotta wake up 3.45 in the morning, but even before that, I was doing shows Thursday through Sunday. So I wasn't able to go. And if I just try more, I can definitely get on the road and come up here after church, because church is from 10 to 12, 10 to one sometimes. But I still pay my tithes, you know what I mean?

I still give offering. My mom's a deacon. I grew up in that church. It was called Holy Church of Christ when I was younger. And my son has been Christianed in that church and my baby that I'm having now will go and get Christianed in that same church. I don't wanna go to another church.

I will listen to a sermon from someone else. I listen to Sarah Jakes. And different podcasts as well. But my reason is simply just an excuse. I just don't go to church because I travel. So yeah. That's literally it. I get that.

But what do y'all look for when you go to a church? What do y'all look for? Like you said, everyone don't touch your soul. Don't minister to your spirit. It's not about what I look for, it's about what I feel. Got it. It's a feeling, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean.

Some people just speak to your soul. I think Sarah Jakes right now, man, at least for me. She talking to you, I love it. Oh my God, like all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even when I'm just listening to her podcast or something. So I just think some people have an anointing on them for the moment that we are in.

And just like her father had it and still has it, you know, I think she had it for the current moment that we're in. And then another thing, so growing up in a church where I'm so used to that back in the day, like for instance, I don't wanna go to a big, big, big church because the pastor don't know me. The pastor don't, I'm used to going to talk to the pastor after church, going to get that individual prayer,

going to tell him what I'm struggling with. And all that as a teenage, I was going through a lot of things, you know what I mean? So I would be able to go and talk to my uncle. He is the bishop, like go and talk to him and stuff like that. But I've gone to churches where, you know, pastor don't even know you,

and he not even tripping off getting to know nobody. You know what I'm sayin'? He just come and he do his thing and they sing a whole album before he start the sermon. He do, you know. Yeah, yes. Right, you shout, I see people shoutin', I see, you know, all of that.

And that's what I'm used to too, cause you're not in Cuddle and Rhythm in the Church. You know, I start comin' from there. You know, and then absolutely not. I grew up in Joe Woodness. Okay. So I ain't start goin' to church till later. Got you. I was too grown for that holy. Ain't I ain't start going to church till later. Got you.

I was too grown for that Holy Ghost. Hey going around knocking on the doors. How you doing? How you know? He said too grown for that Holy Ghost. Saturday. Because a lot of that people performing at some point. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

That's what I'm talking about. You ain't got time for that, but you got time to walk down every block and knock on everybody's door. Every block. Hand in the pamphlet. Sorry. Uh-uh, uh-uh. Every Saturday.

Yeah, man, I probably got time for that. And too early. Y'all come too early. If you came around noon, it'll be all right. So yeah, the personal has been lost, you know what I mean? And then it becomes to the point where the, like I said, the pastor feel like he's God.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. And a lot of these new churches and- And that's what I meant by churches is wagging, cause I know I went on the religious is wag, wag, wagging, and church people probably like, Ty, you just had my church last week. I don't mean that. I mean that stuff right there and what it's become.

I have found it, I have found it, I think I said it right, challenging to know everyone in my church though. I found it challenging. I try to be personable, I try to, I stay at the church and just, I stand there, whoever wanna come to me, they can talk to me.

I don't got the 80 security guards and all that church. I stand there, whoever wanna come to me, they can talk to me. I don't got the 80 security guards and all that stuff. I stand there, they can talk to me, but it's a challenge to know everybody in the church. And that's because it's a bigger church. It's bigger, yeah, it's bigger. But you knew families though. In my church, they knew the Casey family, which was grandma and grandkids and parents.

They knew the Johnsons and this one and that one. So you knew families. Yeah, yeah, yeah, overall. And that means a lot to people. But what if you didn't get that? Does that mean that's not the church for you? Because Moses led millions of people. I doubt he knew, you know what I mean?

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podcasts. Coming for the right reason and make sure that the pastor is there for the right reason. Let me ask you a question, right? So, growing up in Queens, I went to Catholic school, right? My zone school was the worst, so my parents was making me go to Catholic school. I wasn't going to Andrew Jackson. But I noticed in Catholic school, as a kid, Catholic school is 30 minutes. Maybe 35, you up out of there.

It's, I'm back home. Baptist church is three hours. You know what I mean? We got more to say, no explaining. I'm back home. Baptist church is three hours. You know what I mean? So we got more to say. No, just playing. But it's to the point as a kid, you know, you feel like I get everything I need in this 30 minutes.

I don't need this in three and a half hours. I always wonder like, why is the church so long? Cause you know, you got announcements, then you're passing around twice. Then sister so and so gotta talk about them. And if you don't give enough on the first offer, you come back around. Oh, you gotta come back.

I know y'all got 50 more dollars. Come back, though. We almost reached our goal. Right. We ain't there yet. Almost. They double back. You know what I mean?

And I think that's part of it. So long? Yeah. I think churches have changed since then. I don't think churches is three hours like that anymore. I mean, not she. I think it's like nothing. I've seen, she going in. I've seen church structures like 90 minutes, you know what I'm saying? They try to be more mindful of that in the more, you know, current churches and stuff

like that. They try to cut that down a little bit, but I think the reason is people just have a lot of expression, man. They got a lot to say, they got a lot to get out. You understand what I'm saying? I hated the long churches, I grew up Pentecostal. So Pentecostal church, what, three hours, that's it? We just getting started. Yo, when you say three hours, like what? Man, we just getting started.

We ain't had nothing else to do. We ain't had no social media. Sundays was for God, so we was gonna stay all Sunday. So after the five hour service. Yeah. We gotta leave. And then. After the five hour service,

you used food and then night service. Come on. You better stay for that second service. We got people coming from Baltimore. Yeah. We did the trip. We got number service coming at six. We like damn, yo.

Come on, go home. I hated that, but I'm so glad it was like that for me as a young Jit. You understand what I'm saying? I'm so glad it was like that for me because it just kept me from a whole lot. You look like Michael K. Williams. Anybody ever told you that? Yeah. No, I heard Chris rock a lot and I don't know who.

I don't know Michael K. Williams. You got a similar energy to Michael K. Williams. I never met him. Very energetic too. Oh, word? I never met him, man, we need to hook up or something like that. Oh yeah, he dead, he done. Oh, I don't know, okay, I guess I can't, I guess I can't.

Don't give me the donkey of the day. Don't give me the donkey of the day, I'm sorry, I didn't know. I don't know. I was trying to cut him off, he said, I never met the bros, I was like, all right, I can't do it. See, we got one couple of stuff, bro. Y'all can't edit, right?

Y'all will connect one day if you believe what you see. You will see him again. I am done with y'all, yo. Is it true that you worked on Justin Timberlake's Cry Me a River? Yeah, I worked on just. We was in the Root studio. Again, growing up in the Camden, Philly area, we did our first album at the Roots studio.

Crazy how we got signed to. Vivian Green is like an R&B soul artist, and she was doing a showcase for Tommy Mottola and Donnie Iner and them at Sony. And she said, Ty, you know, I was like her cousin at the time, we were like real close, Ty, I want you to MD my showcase. I know you didn't ask me this, I'm just taking a little, you know. I want you to MD my showcase. I know you asked me this, I'm just taking a little, you know. I want you to MD my showcase. I said, alright bet. I got a little couple people from the choir, couple people from the band. We just put together a little

show for Viv. So speaking of energy and all that, we in there with Tommy Metola and Donnie Ion and all these people at Columbia and I'm just a little, you know I'm just playing. I'm like this all the time. If I'm playing, I'm like this. You know what I mean? Everything is energetic. So they like, we love Vivian Green. We're gonna sign her to Columbia and we're gonna sign this all the time. If I'm playing, I'm like this, you know what I mean? Everything is energetic. So they like, we love Vivian Green, we're gonna sign her to Columbia and we're gonna sign this guy right here, who's that? And they was like, oh no, no, no, no,

that's a gospel guy, you know, he does choir and stuff like that. We're signing Vivian and we're signing a gospel guy. I was like, what? Within 90 days, we had a contract at our crib for Columbia Records, no demo, no black and white, no profile pic, no nothing. And we got signed to Columbia.

With Vivian or y'all were separate? Nah, she got her deal, I got my deal. So my first album came out under Columbia Records called Life because of that that moment right there. I'm like, well God is really real. You know what I mean? I mean you could say being in the right place at the right time, but I believe in the favor of God and so we were doing our album in the Roots studio James Poiser shout out James Poiser was a producer on that he's with the Roots now you see him on Jimmy Fallon every night and in the Roots studio they had the plant-based you know stuff going on

marijuana, the burning bush the plant-based they had the burning bush going on every single day. G.A. was in there, we was in there getting contact, you know, trying to sing the praises of the Lord. And just being in that environment, then the Roots was like, oh, you know, why don't you do this? Such and such coming to the studio, such and such coming to the studio, such and such.

We just became the choir for like everybody who came. So we're on Jessica Simpson's Christmas album. We're on so many albums as background singers. So Timberland came through and we just caught a vibe. Timberland, we were just in there just vibing. Tim just put a beat on it. We were just in there playing. I love working with Tim.

Tim, if we could ever do that again, bro. To Tim. Yeah, please, let's hook that up. So we was in there vibing the Cry Me a River. He said, I got this song with Justice. So I'm in there vibing the Cry Me a River. He said, I got this song for Justice. So I'm in there like, okay. So that's me playing that literally on the world listen. Wow, love that.

Literally me. And then the backgrounds on there, me and my girl Marsha from Flowetry did the background. Yeah. Ain't she amazing? Yo, shout out Marsha. Love you, girl. We did the backgrounds to that.

And so just when it came out and we listening to it and it's everywhere, it's in 7-Eleven, we like, oh my, that's us, that's us. Shut up boy, that'd be $20, you know what I mean? I'm like, wait, but that's us, that's us. Hold on, give me another sprite. Just look like that. So, back into that must have been crazy.

The back end money must have been crazy. Did you get paid for it the right way? Oh, damn. I got $2,000 for that. Not the pastor. Oh, man. You don't do the pastor, though. I know you cried you a river.

That's all you got for that. Lord have mercy. $2,000 for crying me a river? Yeah, I got $2,000 for that. And you played the doom doom doom. I played it. We did the arrangement. That you played the doom doom doom. I played it. We did the arrangement. That's the song.

That's what everybody knows. That's what you hear. That's what you look for before his vocals. Ain't no good gonna happen to anybody if they don't take care of the pastor. Tim, give me a call, Tim. It was, it was, it was, it was, yeah. But you know, I didn't know the business at the time.

And I was so hyped to get $2,000, I ain't know what to do. I think I treated everybody to a fry at McDonald's everybody You understand what I'm saying? So I was just so hyped but I didn't know the business then so I got no hard feelings Yeah, you can go check it out. Go check out the credits You know what you give a Chris Rock yes Go check the credits show Chris Rock yes go check the credit show yeah yeah it's definitely Chris I see it now hey yo but yeah thanks to know that you did that and that was you did a whole lot did a whole lot of usher what'd you say what did you do with usher I didn't know what usher I don't think me yo am I on there with usher I'm in usher it says toured with usher I didn't know if you work with Usher. Come on, this is a broad, you gotta be specific. Yeah, yeah, so. Nobody do it like what you was thinking. No, easy, what you do with Usher.

Hold up, yo, wait a minute. I thought you were talking about Usher in the church for a second. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming. Come on, yo.

We might have been on the same program. I didn't do, we didn't do, you know. Jesus. I love to me Usher, man, that's the homie. Jess, come on, don't be with the mess right now. I'm just like, no, I'm saying, don't be with the mess right now. Every day, every day.

She's the past me. It's something with these two niggas, yo, every day. So I'm like, what are you talking about? It's a lot. It's a lot to go, because you'll never know what they're throwing out. God told me to tell you congratulations. Let me get you out of here if you're getting some trouble. Oh my God.

You're on a tour right now. Talk about the tour. Oh, you're touring. That was last year. Reunion tour was last year, right? Reunion tour was last year. It was amazing. I did an all things New tour in the spring

and then I did the reunion tour in the fall or winter. It was amazing to do that with Kirk and Clark Sisters, Israel, David and Tamela. Man, that was incredible. My first arena tour. Never did that before. So I'm like to hear the songs with all them people, it was just, it was surreal.

So we're doing it again. This year I'm going out May, June on the Only One Night Though tour. Only One Night Though, that's my new single that's out. Only One Night Though and the tour is going May June. I'm telling y'all I have a second win of some sort. I don't have a second, third, or fourth whatever but I have this this momentum behind me right now and I am so excited to get out there and do this music. I got new music coming, book coming, podcast.

All this stuff is coming, you know, off the hinges of the Grammy. And it's just a good season for me right now. Yes, I want everybody to come. What? He's great, man. And I play the record. Oh, let's play. Only one night though. All right, let me just say this. So what you did for me growing up is to your music, you didn't make it.

You and Kirk Franklin was the first two men that did not make listening to gospel boring. Right. Right. Yo, because me growing up with a deaconess as a mom, and my daddy was a little bit more lenient, but we had to go to church and a little bit playing to what he was saying like we had to do and I had to get the the stiff ponytail with the ball he balls my hair wasn't really long so when I moved it didn't go good you know so I'm like I want to go here you know and I had little church socks and all

that the ones that Jermaine DePri had on at the Super Bowl. I will always do that. But like, when my mom would put you on, she would put you on just so we can get excited to go to church. So that is really something for me. You and Kirk Franklin, y'all are the only two. My mom be like, all right, all right. And then she knew how to play some other people

when we was going too much. OK, so then I'm like, I don't want to listen to you, such and such. So then, but to get us in the mood to go to church, Ty Tripp and Kirk Franklin. That's what I love about you. What was the song you remember the most? No way.

I make it when I do. Pre, I can't even. Then you go into the ad libs. I can't even. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. Thank you. And you know now what? No, no, that one. That one in the ad libs. What? I can't even add an end. You know what I mean? Thank you.

What? What? You know what I mean? Strike him down. I hate that. Strike him down, Lord. Ladies and gentlemen, touch.

My time is about to end. Do you think people have a problem with God? No. No, no, no, no. Absolutely not. You think most people honor him? Yeah, my whole life has been God fearing, but see I think that you have to show

and prove that through actions. You know what I'm saying? I think it's one thing to say, oh I believe in God, I love God, but do you really try to at least strive to move the way God would want you to move? Okay. I think that's one thing to say, oh, I believe in God. I love God. But do you really try to at least strive to move the way God would want you to move? Okay. I think that's the difficult part.

Okay. So it's not the belief, it's the behavior. Yes. Yeah. Sometimes it's the behavior of the messenger. What you mean? Somebody will say, I have an assignment, right? Like you said, I have an assignment. And maybe your assignment is to help Jess

in her situation and her problems. And maybe you do, but then you as a person is not coming from the perspective of somebody giving the assignment. You see what I'm saying? So let's say if you're here to help Jess in her life and whatever it may be, but you know, you cheating on your wife with Charlemagne.

It's, I look at it as- He just, that's an example. Thatlemagne. It's, I look at it as, he just, that's just an example. That's just an example. But I just look at it as, You know you like like skin men, relax. That's not gonna be the thing. But I look at it as you're giving the assignment, but the person giving the assignment

is not living the life. I disagree with that. But that's what makes me hard to see because you're giving the the excitement but you're not living right. It's like, are you really given the excitement? But nobody around Jesus was living right. That's all I'm about to say.

Was your teacher living algebra? You know what I'm saying? Can somebody give you information that'll help you that's still flawed? That's right. Right, but sometimes it's like, is that information true if you out there selling crack every night, giving crack to our youth? You might be helping me and saving me,

but then you're killing a hundred others. It's like, is that coming from God, or is that coming from a negative, an evil, the devil? You see what I'm saying? So it's kind of hard to separate and trust it. But that's a discernment coming in, right? Mm-hmm, exactly. So you need the spirit as well.

You know what I'm saying?'s what I think so when I said how you feel about God I was gonna ask how you feel about all of that you say you too grown for the Holy Ghost but uh. That's because I think they be plain. Yeah yeah I know what you're saying. And some people do. They do most do most most. Now you be saying I'm Harlem Shake I'm like nah I know Holy Ghost ain't making you Harlem Shake in church man. Like cut it out man. You got a whole routine. Most embrace the Holy Ghost. They got some routines. They got some choreography for praise. But how about if the Holy Ghost? Stop. I think most embrace the culture of church, but not the Christ of them.

You know what I mean? Not Christ. Right, the culture. That's the issue as well. I think when you try to move without the Spirit of God, not just the Word of God, but the Spirit of God, not just the Word of God, but the Spirit of God, this is where personal relationship comes in. When you try to move or live your life without the Spirit of God, that is your guide, that is your direction. The Holy Ghost of the Bible said the Holy Spirit comes to lead and to guide us into all truth. So there's a lot of wisdom and truth that we forfeit by not being led by the Spirit

of God, by being led by Google, by being led by other things like that. Even a therapist, I will add, the Bible says, add to your faith knowledge, but add to your faith. I think we let knowledge replace our faith. We let counsel replace our faith. Every new information you get as a believer should add to your faith. And that comes through the sermon and knowing the Spirit of God. So take the time to develop that relationship with God. Like this sounds crazy, but Lord, all right, let me pray. You

know what I mean? Whatever it is, take that time to develop. It's your protection. You know what I mean? From the wolves in sheep's clothing. It's your protection from wrong relationships and dating the wrong person. God knows all. He knows the person you're dealing with. He knows the thoughts and the intents and the motives of the people you're dealing with. So the Holy Spirit is a cheat code

to help us deal with life, to make the right business decisions, to make the right decisions for our children, because this child is different from this one. I can't do that on my own. So when you allow the Holy Spirit to be your lead and your guide, I mean your way will be prosperous, the Bible says. So and you'll be protected because everybody is for themselves in this world and there's much evil and darkness as you know, as you said even in clergy college, yo, and I'm tired of it. My wife and I are going to work on

I think a podcast or something called Flippin' Tables, just to kind of like, not to expose nobody, nothing like that, but like, hey, y'all, you know what I'm saying, this is, choreography, praise is not it, you know what I'm saying? We want people to get relationship and not religion, man. So if anything, I'll leave y'all, it will be that. Please, please, please take the time.

Well, you gotta leave us on a prayer. Oh, a prayer, okay. Oh, you want the prayer? Oh, now you want a prayer. Yeah, you want the prayer? We always pray, we always. No, I'm just saying, you ain't worried about what we did 24 hours ago,

and he prayed for you? Wow. Because he might have smoked the cigarette outside before he came in here. Right, you wanna ask that, or you wanna ask where I was last night before you received my prayer? You can pray for me in the corner, sorry. Thank you, thank you, thank you. No, but I guess that is important because we never saw presidents or we never saw Obama or his family partying

Yeah, because he had to be the president. You know what I'm saying? So it's very important as leaders what your image is to the people but part of it to me I don't know maybe cuz I'm always found God in the most unlikely places. What you mean by that? He's always in the most unlikely places. What you mean by that? Because he's always in the most unlikely places. Oh, my family, yeah. No, I'm just saying, like, I understand what Envy's saying, but I think sometimes you will miss a message from God. Because you don't like the appearance of the messenger.

You know what I mean? And sometimes that's who God is working through. That's what they did with Jesus. They was like, who is this guy? God, absolutely. That ain't the Savior, that's not him. They missed the Savior of the world still to this day because of how he was presented.

So, but I think you have to know him to see him in things. You can see him in the most unlikely places because you know him. Well, if you know God in you, you'll recognize him in everybody else. Exactly, I can see him in movies, comment box, I can see him on his wall, I can see him anywhere because I know him.

So nothing from without can defile you. I always was taught, you can't go to clubs. Oh, when we grew up, we couldn't go to nothing. We couldn't go to movies, we couldn't go bowling, we couldn't play basketball because there was just drinks there, there's that and that, whatever. I was about to say, what's wrong with bowling? Drinks. Yeah, drinks, okay.

Yeah, couldn't you believe that? Putting your fingers in the holes. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. He shot out. You see? I got it, I didn't know. I just saw clips, but he really shot out for real. Mm. Mm-mm.

He shot out for real, too. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. He shot it in the pamphlet. Right. Right. But I had to learn nothing from without can defile you. If it's in you, it's in you.

If you ratchet, you don't need music to. That's right. You know what I'm saying? It only exposes what's already in you. So we gotta change and challenge what's in us. Absolutely. I got one last question, because you just made me think of something.

Let's do it. This conversation me and Jess had, when they had the New Year's Eve thing and they did the swag surf in the church. Thank y'all for having me, man. Appreciate it. Yeah, I thought this was very much clowned out. No, no, tell them what you thought, tell the pastor what you thought up here.

I didn't think it was anything wrong with it cause my whole thing was they doing it outside the church anyway you know what I mean? So if you're having a, and it wasn't like it was a regular church service, it was New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve, they partying! You know what I mean?

Yeah, what did you think? You still thought differently? I thought that all of them were clowns, I'm very much sorry about that but. You said all of them were clowns? everybody was clowns because that was the explicit version being played Just like I told Charlamagne. I'm like, no, I didn't grow up like that in church Like you just certain things you don't play with I yeah, you can swag and surf all day I even if he disagree, okay

No, I agree with you in that the lyrics was like, Yeah, I couldn't believe I was hearing that. We could swear to surf all day, but don't. Yeah, I got Patron on my, this girl got a bad bitch behind me and a friend, but right beside me and. They didn't play the clean version though? They didn't play the clean version.

No, it was an explicit version. I think that was a mistake in production or something like that. I don't think that was intentional. I think it was very much intentional because the person who played the prank, it was a youth, a little youther. A youth pastor? Yes, and was like you know what I'm gonna just play this by mistake on purpose. But if it was the

clean version you'd have been okay with it. If it was the clean version you'd have been okay with it? Um. You can swag surf in church. Yeah! But why does it have to be to the song? We can swag surf towards high drumming song. We can swag surf to the Kirk Franklin and Lil Baby song. I got you on that. We can swag surf to something. We can swag surf to Silence. We made it into another year. That's true. Go to the club after you get out. God bless you. All right, do what you do. So how you feel about just the instrumental? That's cool.

You can put whatever words on top of it you want. Yeah. But you like the lyrics and everything in there. I didn't have a problem with it, man. Really? Really? Because you know they're going to listen to it anyway outside. Yeah, and it's just like.

Just a dirty version of it, dirty version of the church. And in my mind, I'm like, whoever was in that church that night is coming back. And to me, that's more important. Well, if she was in that church, she wouldn't come back. I definitely wouldn't even. I would walk out right in the middle.

I think the church, and I'm the wild craziest, I'm with everything, I'll swags or whatever. I still think that the church should have something a sacred, sacredness to it. Don't you gotta meet people where they are? They say meet people where they are. They don't take that and they run with that though. I'm not with that.

Nobody, nobody met, if Jesus met somebody where they were, he literally went to them. Like when they come to church, they're meeting you where you are. You coming in here. You coming in here. Is what you saying. That's what you say. I'm with them too. I'm saying they should be across the street from the strip club so that when they come out. Yeah not inside. Ty have you ever been to a strip club? I have been to a strip club. I have. Yeah you have. I have been to a club. Yeah, it was a birthday. What birthday was it? I'm 48 now. I

Just want it was one of them years when I was like forget the church. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna I did not enjoy I went one time in my entire life. Did you pray over the girls? I didn't pray over them No, I didn't I didn't pray. I prayed over myself more than anything. Yeah, like I did not huh? Why didn't you like it? Oh man For real? Well your wife is, so nevermind. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I didn't enjoy the performers. What state was it? Florida. Should've went to Atlanta. No, Florida, you mean Florida. Atlanta, crazy.

What you would do, especially in Miami? Yeah, so I didn't enjoy the performers. And I was like, this is why I don't belong here. Yeah, booby trap wasn't over back then. You would've loved booby trap. It's okay. All professions. I think God was like, you got it out, you good?

The little prodigal moment, and then you strained so this is what you wanted did you I'm like man Never ever designed to go back ever it I left, yo. I never ever designed to go back. Ever. It was horrible, bro. It was horrible, man. Can you pray for this stupid show? Please, very much. Hey, first of all, thank y'all for being like cultural leaders, man. I appreciate what y'all do for

the culture, yo. It's amazing what y'all do here. Thank you for keeping it positive. And you crazy. Y'all all crazy. But that's who we are. And we're not ashamed of who we are. Let's pray for a minute. Okay Father God, I thank you for this opportunity to just to pray over these blessed people and in this show. I pray now God that you just continue to be our guide and our lead. There are so many needs just in this room and so many needs of people that are

listening. We can't solve every need. We don't know every need, but you promised to supply every need. So I pray from emotions to finances to mental health to physical health to relational security. I pray that you just supply every need. Once we're in scarcity and we need, we get desperate and we do things that's not even in our character. So may we never be insecure and may we never lack anything and may we never fear. Perfect love cast out all fear. Fill us with your perfect love today

and we won't fear anything. We won't fear the enemy, we won't fear the way of the world, we won't fear anything because we are loved by you. Let everybody know for an assurity that they are loved crazy and all, backslidden and all, not whatever state we're in. It does not disqualify us from your everlasting love. So embrace us with that today in the name of Jesus bless everyone bless Charlamagne bless Envy bless Jess bless this show God let it be a beacon of light and a beacon of hope to everyone who listens let it put a smile on people's face put joy in their heart and happiness in their day. I thank

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