00:00Talk about trap gospel, trap meaning the sound, you know, now we all know what it means, you know, so I think people are kind of a little, you know, leery about why it's called trap, you know, but I'm engaging a little bit on social media and this woman was like, um, it's not the Holy Spirit if it makes you move your feet first.
00:24Like anybody who hears music, no matter what your belief is, you look around this room, you put some music on, somebody's going to nod their head, somebody's going to tap their thumb, their hand, somebody's going to, so does it make it, what is it supposed to do, ma'am, what's supposed to move first, you know what I'm saying?
00:47To me, gospel is not about the sound, it's about the message. We get so caught up in what it sounds like. There's so many different forms of it. You have traditional, which ain't nothing wrong with a good old hymn, because sometimes when you're going through it, trap gospel or contemporary might not be what you want to put on.
01:08But if you want to be inspired, you know, get up in the morning, put on Say Yes.
01:13When Jesus say yes, nobody can say no.
01:16When Jesus say yes, nobody can say no.
01:20I worked with a producer who's worked with the Chris Browns, the Kelly Rowlands, Sierra and Fantasia stuff.
01:27I did that purposely because I didn't want, you know, I didn't want, I wanted him to do what he could do, but then, okay, we're going to put an amazing message to this more contemporary or urban sonic music.
01:39I got a few trap beats on Journey to Freedom, so I'm in trouble too then.
01:44Well.
01:47Well, so performing Say Yes at the White House, I was like, man, do I retire now or what?
01:53Okay, if the answer is no, but that was a great moment in my life, in my career, personally and professionally.
02:01It was great.
02:02It was moving to see Barack Obama and Michelle and so many people in the audience clapping, and we were so surrounded by so much history.
02:12We had Aretha Franklin and Shirley Caesar, Rance Allen, Lyle Lovett, Darlene Love, so many people with amazing history and stories as well in music.
02:22But when you think about the history of the United States, America was built on those hymns and those spirituals, Negro spirituals.
02:30Songs were where their dreams took flight, where they expressed pain and fear and unimaginable loss, as well as faith and love.
02:40Being in the White House for that moment was pretty awesome.
02:43Be right.
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