GloRilla Cites Psalm 150:6 and Refuses to Apologize for Praising God
GloRilla has had enough of the church folks and the comment section telling her she can’t praise God.
On Wednesday, the Memphis rapper took to her own X account and got it off her chest: “Man till this day I’ll never understand why so many people are triggered by me giving God praise. I can’t find the wrong in it to save my life lol. The bible says let everything that has breath praise the lord (Psalm 150:6). Long as I’m breathing ima give God the glory and nobody can ever make me feel bad about that.”
The post took off — The Shade Room reposted it and the comments turned into a full-blown church-versus-culture war, with tens of thousands of likes and thousands of people going back and forth.
Glo’s gospel run with Kirk Franklin started back in October 2024 with “Rain Down on Me,” off her debut album Glorious, alongside Maverick City Music, Kierra Sheard and Chandler Moore. The song still went on to win the BET Award for Best Gospel/Inspirational in 2025. The pair ran it back this past September with “This Time,” from Franklin’s album I Am What I Am, and that record gave Franklin his 10th No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart — the first artist to ever do it.
But the debate reignited when gospel star Tye Tribbett sat down on The Breakfast Club and said, with love for Franklin, that Kirk “didn’t have to go the GloRilla route.” Tribbett’s position is that gospel artists don’t need secular collaborations to spread the word, and that emcees within the gospel genre could have been given the opportunity instead.
Franklin already answered that energy on Big Boy’s Neighborhood: “It’s been breaking my heart some of the ridicule that some of the religious have given her. That she’s not holy enough or church enough to be able to do a song.” He recalled her asking him: if a rock can praise God, why can’t she?
And this is Gloria Hallelujah Woods — Hallelujah is literally her middle name. She grew up in a strict Christian home where secular music was banned — gospel is her first language, not a costume she puts on for streams.
So here’s where the culture is split. One side says praise belongs to everybody breathing, and meeting people where they are is the whole point. The other side says gospel has to stay set apart, and a rapper with an explicit catalog can’t just step into the sanctuary when it’s convenient.
Where do you stand — can a secular artist praise God publicly without it turning into a church-versus-culture fight every single time?
Source: GloRilla’s post on X (November 11, 2026).
