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    Q&A: How 'Praise This' turned Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion hits into gospel songs

    When "Praise This" plays the opening chords of "Money," Koryn Hawthorne lifts her microphone and debuts a special version of the hit song: When things so bad, my God's so real I praise His name like no one will Big love flows through all my fears Say His name 'cause He always hears Don't just wish, give Him your will Ten different reasons to rely on Him Seek and you shall find, it be giving me ...
    by Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2023 7 minutes
    Singer Chloe Bailey arrives for the world premiere of Peacock's "Praise This" at the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University in Atlanta, on April 3, 2023.

    When "Praise This" plays the opening chords of "Money," Koryn Hawthorne lifts her microphone and debuts a special version of the hit song:

    When things so bad, my God's so real

    I praise His name like no one will

    Big love flows through all my fears

    Say His name 'cause He always hears

    Don't just wish, give Him your will

    Ten different reasons to rely on Him

    Seek and you shall find, it be giving me chills

    Blessings from above rolling in like wheels

    This ecclesiastic Cardi B cover, or any of the other gospel flips in "Praise This," might just become pop culture canon, rivaling iconic competition sequences like the "Drumline" tiebreaker, the "You Got Served" dance-off and, of course, the "Sister Act 2" finale. And its performers — wearing bejeweled hoodies and lug boots, and singing amid concert-level lighting and an LED wall — are proof that being a baddie and a believer are not mutually exclusive.

    "'Money' should feel like a bank robbery, but we're just talking about blessings," says Tina Gordon, writer-director of the movie. Now streaming on Peacock, the Universal release zooms in on the competitive world of contemporary church praise

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