There’s a huge move, a huge shift. And I cannot wait to see the flood of souls. Also, it didn’t come cheap and it didn’t happen overnight. People have been chipping away at this wall for some time– from The Winans to John P. Kee, Fred Hammond to Kirk Franklin… tomorrow is our celebration of the wall coming down.
GP: That’s great stuff. You’re performing your new single, “Beautiful,” on American Idol tomorrow. What do you hope people will take away from your performance?
Mali: I want them to say, “Who is this guy?” *laughs* I want to raise suspicion– not just on the style or the sound, or even the quality of the sound, but “what is this feeling? What is on him? How do I get some?”
That’s what I want. I want it to be like, “whoa, wait… we thought we’d seen it all.” I just wanna hold up a light saying, “there’s plenty of us and we’ve always been here.”
GP: Absolutely. And I think you’ve got lots of people praying for you in that. Any word on when the full album is finally coming out?
Mali: The album is dropping in May! People will see that I have not changed. I have evolved, but this is Mali, guys! *chuckling* This is me.
GP: Well, do well tomorrow! You’ve got thousands and thousands of people rooting you on and we know you’ll represent the Body well.
Mali: Thank you, man.
Update:
Incase you missed it, it was amzing!
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