Currently making waves is your track “Cleflo Almighty Dollar.” What was your thought process behind the record and were you afraid of any backlash?

Sir the Baptist: I got some backlash. You know there has to be a time or place in your head when you thought “I must be doing the wrong thing if Creflo Dollar can get a $65 million jet.” Like maybe I change my goals cause it seems like a preacher is where it’s at. They use your feelings to drive money, but you really know what it is. If you think about Jesus turned over tables when he found out people were raising money in church, it’s so true man. I was homeless when I made that record, sleeping out of my car, driving Lyft to be able to keep my car and eat. I was homeless and when I made that record I was listening to Paul Simon’s “Homeless,” and it has all these chanting African voices and when I made that record it helped me realize that because I didn’t have money it didn’t mean I wasn’t important. The only people I see compare to that is the culture I now, Gospel, church. Then you have “Creflo Almighty Dollar,” you use $65 million on a jet? Not even talking about the gas for it or the person to fly it, just the jet. At the end of the day I’m trying to inspire somebody else to do something with their money than be flashy. I know when of the biggest figures died in a plane crash and he wants to avoid that by having at the best plane ever. If God plans for you to die in a plane crash, will that $65 million jet save you from that?

How has your experience been as an artist?

Sir the Baptist: I just became an artist a year ago. I was just producing records and working on movie scores and all of that. I did this score for Dysfunctional Friends that’s on Netflix and Meagan Good is in it, I was just doing music. I had a meeting with Rodney Jerkins who is also a PK [Preacher’s Kid] and it was always “You need to be an artist.” I was like I’ll do it and it’s amazing that you can put out a record of your own and sing it just the way you want to then people love it.

What are key lessons you are learning early on?

Sir the Baptist: I’ve learned don’t try to be to somebody else. This book called Philosophy in the Flesh explains don’t try to be who society has made you. If I was what Society made me I would be a minority, I would make minority music, I would do hip-hop and do everything that’s flashy and make radio singles and stuff like that. Be who you were born in life to be. My dad is a preacher, my mom is a preacher, I grew up in church I love Jesus I talk to crazy, be that person. It goes back to seeing yourself in pampers and see what you were doing then and be that person. You have to be that person who wasn’t derailed by society telling you, you have to do marketing at Leo Burnett. I did marketing at Leo Burnett for six years, but if I listened to myself as a kid I could have been great. That’s why the album is called Preacher’s Kid; I was almost born in church. My mother’s water broke in church. That’s why I say before first grade, what were you like? Only your mother can tell you that.

What are your upcoming goals?

Sir the Baptist: One of my lavish goals is to get Jay Z on a record. Its super extreme.