Trip Lee
William Lee Barefield III (born December 17, 1987), better known by his stage name Trip Lee, is an American Southern rapper, singer, poet, and author. Signed to Reach Records, he has recorded both as a solo artist and as a founding member of the 116 Clique. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he now resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a teaching pastor at Cornerstone Church. He first gained recognition after appearing on the Reach Records website at the age of 16. His third album, Between Two Worlds, was nominated for two Dove Awards and won the Stellar Award for Best Hip Hop Album in 2011.
Lee is a Reformed Christian.
Biography
Early life
William Lee Barefield III was born and raised in Dallas, TX. As a young boy, Lee had dreams of being a professional athlete or a famous rapper, and he began to hone his lyrical skills at the age of 12. "I rapped about random stuff… how hot I was, how many girls I could pull," Lee says. But upon giving his life to Christ, at age 14, his focus changed from fortune, fame, and women to serving and ministering the Gospel.
Hip hop
Hip hop or hip-hop is a sub-cultural movement that formed during the early 1970s by African-American and Puerto Rican youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world. It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or DJing (aural), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.
The origin of the hip hop culture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged in the amplifiers for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and used music to break down racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, to which he coined the terms: MCing or "Emceein", DJing or "Deejayin", B-boying and graffiti writing or "Aerosol Writin".
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.
While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
Hip-hop dance
Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hIP HOP or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild Style showcased these crews and dance styles in their early stages; therefore, giving hip-hop mainstream exposure. The dance industry responded with a commercial, studio-based version of hip-hop—sometimes called "new style"—and a hip-hop influenced style of jazz dance called "jazz-funk". Classically trained dancers developed these studio styles in order to create choreography from the hip-hop dances that were performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is practiced in both dance studios and outdoor spaces.
The commercialization of hip-hop dance continued into the 1990s and 2000s with the production of several television shows and movies such as The Grind, Planet B-Boy, Rize, StreetDance 3D, America's Best Dance Crew, Saigon Electric, the Step Up film series, and The LXD, a web series. Though the dance is established in entertainment, including mild representation in theater, it maintains a strong presence in urban neighborhoods which has led to the creation of street dance derivatives Memphis jookin, turfing, jerkin', and krumping.
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ALBUMS
- Rise released: 2014
- The Good Life released: 2012
- Between Two Worlds released: 2010
- 20/20 released: 2008
- If They Only Knew released: 2006
Between Two Worlds
Released 2010- Real Life Music (instrumental)
- Snitch (instrumental)
- Invade (instrumental)
- Prognosis (instrumental)
- No Worries (instrumental)
- Covenant Eyes (instrumental)
- Life 101 (instrumental)
- I Love Music (instrumental)
- Limitations (instrumental)
- Yours to Own (instrumental)
- Apathy (Interlude)
- Twisted (instrumental)
- Bear With You (instrumental)
- Show's Over (instrumental)
- The Invasion (Hero) (instrumental)
- My Lord (instrumental)
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Give Him Glory
by: Trip LeeYeah, if they only knew man.
Don't worry about who I am man.
Cause I ain't nothing but a tool for God's glory.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm not trying to get cash, this task
Hate to make our hits last (the world)
??? the beats so fast
Your boy got whiplash
We got different motives/ I ain't trying to get the dough/ it's switched and now we spitting flows/ and living just to lift Jehovah/
Forget my name and my face/ I ain't just an entertainer / we was made for the Savior/ to glorify His name bruh
So when we walk out we Walk it Out/ with crosses on our back/ and we live for the One we talk about/ and He taught us how to act bruh
We aint here for our pleasure/ we aint here to have fun/but to help them see our God better/ we aint trying to stack funds
I aint telling fairytales/aint just telling my story/cause my life aint worth nothing/if it aint giving God glory
So I aint got no songs where I repeat my name/ in every single song you're hearing Jesus reigns
No I aint much of nothing/ nothing but a sinner bro/ by grace I'm more/ I praise the Lord/ the only thing worth living for.
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Ay, I aint living for myself
No it aint about me
Anything the Lord do
He can't do without me
So give him glory (with your beats)
Give him glory (with your verses)
Give him glory (in the streets)
Give Him glory (in your churches)
We tryna lift His name up
We don't want you praising us
Putting Christ front and center
And we laying in the cut
So give him glory (with your beats)
Give him glory (with your verses)
Give him glory (in the streets)
Give Him glory (in your churches)
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When I eat, sleep, hit the streets/its only for His glory man/Plus I can grow each time I read/ He put it all before me man
Naw I aint gotta wonder how to please him with my life/ its in the Bible man I can model what I see up in the Christ
God came in the flesh/he's the best/ I can mock his living
And it was clear while he was here He was all about His Father's business
He wasn't worried about himself/ he was humble as a mug
He taught the folks how to act and was showing others love
We aint trying to promote self, naw
We giving cats the Bible
We aint trying to make dough/we trying to make disciples
Each time we learn we pass it on to a group of faithful men/we read it back/ we teach the cats/ we pray they take it in
And when we make decisions/each time we have to base them/ on how the Lord can get His glory/ out the situation
It says in Proverbs ???/ His glory is our purpose/ so if we living for ourselves/ our life is truly worthless
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So give him glory (with your beats)
Give him glory (with your verses)
Give him glory (in the streets)
Give Him glory (in your churches
So give Him glory every day man
Give Him glory in every way man
Don't start living for yourself homie
Don't get led astray