Brandon Lake Collabs With Jelly Roll for New Version of “Hard Fought Hallelujah”
Brandon Lake is the worship pastor of Seacoast Church, a 14,000-member nondenominational multisite megachurch in South Carolina.
Formerly a member of Bethel Music and Maverick City Music, he’s also a talented songwriter and singer whose music has garnered him heaps of praise and accolades, including 10 Grammy nominations (and five wins,) nearly 40 Dove award nominations (and 10 wins), and a raft of Billboard music awards and ASCAP Christian Music Awards. His best-known songs include “Gratitude,” “That’s Who I Praise,” “Graves into Gardens,” Praise You Anywhere,” “This is a Move,” and “Rattle.”
He also released “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” a praise and worship-type song that he co-wrote with Elevation Worship’s Steven Furtick and Chris Brown and which features the chorus:
I’ll bring my hard-fought, heartfelt
Been-through-hell hallelujah (ooh, ooh)
And I’ll bring my storm-tossed, torn-sail
Story-to-tell hallelujah, oh
‘Cause God, You’ve been patient
God, You’ve been gracious
Faithful, whatever I’m feeling or facing
So I’ll bring my hard-fought, heartfelt, it-is-well hallelujah, whoa-oh
Hallelujah (ooh, ooh), hallelujah
According to the Christian Beat, “The song originally debuted in November 2024 as #1 on the Christian/Gospel Songs Chart, #1 on the Christian/Gospel On-Demand Audio Streaming and Christian/Gospel On-Demand Overall Streaming charts, as well as #1 on the All-genre Digital Song Sales chart. “Hard Fought Hallelujah” beat Lake’s own record previously set by “That’s Who I Praise” for the largest debut streaming week for a single released by a Christian genre artist.
To this end, Lake recently shared on social media that he has produced a new version of the song ft. multi-genre singer and songwriter Jelly Roll, that is set to drop on February 7.
Last year, Jelly Roll appeared on the Flagrant podcast, where he claimed to be a man of faith who believed in a higher power, yet gets grief because he cursed a lot and smoked weed. He condemned the notion that God isn’t perfectly fine with LGBTQ things and promoted conspiracy theories about Constantine changing and corrupting Christianity in the fourth century. He also recounted bible stories with some familiarity but was frequently wrong with many of the details, points and purpose, resulting in a blasphemous portrayal of Jesus and the theology at work.
Three months ago, he appeared on Logan Paul’s podcast, where he lamented that the Flagrant appearance resulted in him being hated and preached about by pastors all across America, saying that it hurt his feelings, but that three well-known pastors reached out to him and told him it was the “bravest act of Christianity we’ve ever seen.’ He says after the experience:
It ended up working out in my favor I ended up actually getting closer to God after that. I picked up my Bible for the first time in a decade after that conversation. I started allowing a pastor to pour into me for the first time after a decade. Like it was a was a breakthrough for me… most big pastors and a lot of authors hit me up and was like ‘man that was accurate. You didn’t you didn’t tell a lie, the church just don’t know how to deal with the truth.’
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Luckily for Mr. Brandon Face Tattoo, Biden pardoned everyone named Biden or Brandon on his way out.
Since his music is a crime against humanity.