Rapper T.I. felt Exploited By Pastor Jamal Bryant At Kanye’s Sunday service [Video]
When Kanye West’s “Sunday Service” descended on New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta last weekend, rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris attended the praise and worship ceremony, but the experience left Tip feeling “exploited.” By pastor Jamal Bryant, and he went to Instagram to explain why.
Last Monday, T.I. posted a picture to his Instagram of himself, wife Tiny, 2 Chainz and his wife Kesha Ward, all sitting front row at the event. He captioned the clip “Yeaaahhh Maaaan We MUST discuss what caused this look on my face in Sunday Service…. #Expeditiously”
As he promised, T.I. later sat down with killer Mike on the latest episode of his ExpediTIously podcast to discuss why he was so upset.
“I cut my fellowshiping short at Magic City to get 45 minutes of sleep to drive by here and be accosted and basically exploited,” T.I. told Killer Mike. “As soon as I sat down—mind you, I’m telling you they had already raised the offering. [The pastor] had already raised the offering—when we sat down there was a whole new agenda… It’s like they rung the red bell at the Player’s Club… You ain’t [about to] run no game on me. I will not be extorted.”
Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth caught wind of the criticism, and took to Instagram to deny the allegations in a lengthy response to T.I. and Killer Mike.
“I don’t want Sunday to be used as further ammunition as to why people don’t go to church without them knowing at this same church we gave 5000 pairs of new back to school shoes to kids of #Atlanta, or that we spearheaded 9 million campaign to support @bennett_college , or that we bailed out nonviolent offenders or that we partnered with @delta to send 4 cargo to #Bahamas for hurricane release or that we’ve partnered with @_hamptonu to place 95 displaced students or that we fed the furloughed workers for two weeks while the government was shut down or that we went into housing projects to feed kids of #dekalb county during spring break. For none of these projects were you solicited for a donation.”
Pastor Bryant also noted: “As black men I hope we can come together ‘expeditiously’ to find common ground to build. I want to invite both of you to come and give church another chance. I promise you I’m more interested in your life than your life savings!”
T.I. responded that he has nothing but “love and respect” for the Pastor. Check out his conversation with Killer Mike below.
