INTERVIEW: Tye Tribbett Talks 'Victory B20', Gospel Music Within Hip Hop, Forgiveness + More

Charlamagne tha God (0:03)

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Jess Hilarious (0:08)

Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

Charlamagne tha God (0:14)

Yes, it did.

DJ Envy (0:15)

We got the brother, Tye Tribbett.

Tye Tribbett (0:16)

Welcome, how y'all feeling? Y'all good?

DJ Envy (0:19)

Good, good. Good morning, thank y'all so much for having me.

Charlamagne tha God (0:21)

Jesus is king, I love that hat, man.

Tye Tribbett (0:22)

Yes, sir, it's true, it's true.

Jess Hilarious (0:24)

I just missed you this week. I was at University of Maryland's East and Shore.

DJ Envy (0:28)

You saw how he did that real quick?

Jess Hilarious (0:29)

We was just getting into the Jesus topic, and you moved it that quick.

Tye Tribbett (0:32)

We was talking about, he's king.

Charlamagne tha God (0:34)

I was going to say, expound on that. Tell us why Jesus is king. Give glory to Jesus this morning, but no, we just want to talk about you.

Jess Hilarious (0:41)

We're going to do that the whole interview, bud, guys.

Tye Tribbett (0:42)

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Charlamagne tha God (0:44)

Go ahead, go ahead, sir.

Jess Hilarious (0:45)

Now we're going to say, I just missed you at the University of Maryland East and Shore. I was going to say, I knew you were performing there. How was everything? I had an amazing time.

Tye Tribbett (0:51)

Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was.

What happened? Tell me what happened. I went there, I went there, it was a Sunday night, so I'm just getting off the stage. If you saw in the clips.

Jess Hilarious (1:01)

It was the start of homecoming.

Tye Tribbett (1:03)

Yeah, the start of homecoming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm just getting off the, I'm leaving the pulpit from the church. And we was talking about Jesus being king. We was talking, essentially, we were talking about him, his sacrifice for us and the reason why he's king.

He lived, he died, he rose, all the things. I'm talking about all that. And there's a scripture that literally says Jesus, he stopped the hostility between the Jews and the Greeks. I said, you ain't gotta be hostile, just cause you got differences with people, that'll mean you gotta be hostile against them. We can have differences peacefully. We can have differences humbly. This is my sermon to live church, shout out live church Sunday morning. Sunday night, I get to Maryland Eastern Shore.

Jess Hilarious (1:43)

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Tye Tribbett (1:45)

I love the people, I go there all the time. So a brother was on stage, I caught the end of his set. And at the end of his set, the young lady got up and just started basically opening and rebuking him for his appearance and his words and things like that. I'm thinking, oh my Lord, this is exactly what I was talking about this morning.

Jess Hilarious (2:02)

And you was on next.

Tye Tribbett (2:04)

Yeah, I'm next. I'm like, oh my Lord. What did I walk into? I just wanted to come in. It's B20. I'm talking about Victory, it's colleges, universities. Let me get this going.

So I felt like, do I have to address this or do I not? You know what I mean? I felt so stirred inside to say something because I really felt like the church needed to do a better job at addressing certain things like this. You know what I mean?

Jess Hilarious (2:27)

Let me just break down. So there was somebody performing before here. What was his name? I don't want to mess up his name.

DJ Envy (2:32)

Why are you looking at Jeff like she's there? No, he was a gospel singer.

He was a gospel singer.

Jess Hilarious (2:37)

He was performing gospel, but he had a wig on, a bust down.

DJ Envy (2:40)

Right?

Jess Hilarious (2:41)

And he was performing and he was praising the Lord.

DJ Envy (2:43)

Yes.

Jess Hilarious (2:43)

When he got off stage, one of the students jumped on stage, grabbed the mic and rebuked him for doing it and says, you can't be praising the Lord in a bust down.

Charlamagne tha God (2:54)

Was he gay or something? I'm just asking, why would the student care about him having a bust down on him?

Jess Hilarious (2:58)

Maybe he was. I don't know.

Charlamagne tha God (2:59)

The church says come as you are. Yeah.

Tye Tribbett (3:01)

So that was my angle. That was my angle because I just caught the tail and I was like, oh man, we got to do a better job than that. You know what I'm saying? All right. Let's be wise. Let's understand if a brother is overtaken in a fault, the Bible says restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. So even if you're going to rebuke somebody, the point is to restore them. I think a lot of times in old school church, the rebuke is because we're right, not because let's help.