James Fortune, Monica Share New Song ‘Trusting God’

Award-winning gospel artist James Fortune reunites with R&B legend Monica for the brand new music “Trusting God.”

Following a spoken-word intro from Fortune, who champions the file all through, Monica sings about how shifting all of a sudden as an alternative of standing nonetheless and ready on God precipitated her grief.

Monica sings, “Why would I believe, that I may deal with this alone / When so many issues in my life had been going flawed / Folks I liked made guarantees they didn’t preserve / I ought to have recognized higher / Tried to do higher / There was nobody accountable however me.”

Because the music continues, Monica realizes the power of staying devoted to God’s promise to by no means go away or forsake us.

“Trusting God” is Fortune’s first collaboration with Monica in over a decade.

The 2 beforehand labored collectively on “Maintain On,” a 2012 music on which Fred Hammond and Fiya additionally appeared. It was nominated for Greatest Gospel Music on the fifty fifth Grammy Awards in 2013. Its guardian album, Identification, additionally earned a Greatest Gospel Album nod that yr.

Monica, whose Trenches album is one among Rated R&B’s most anticipated albums this yr, spent 2022 primarily acting on the R&B Music Expertise Tour.

She did launch the Ty Dolla $ign-assisted “Pals” as one other single from her forthcoming R&B album, Trenches. It marked her first high 20 single on city radio beneath her MonDeenise Music imprint.

In accordance with press supplies, Monica was alleged to launch Trenches, confirmed to be completed in August 2021, final fall. Nonetheless, the album has but to floor, although its first single, the Lil Child-featured title observe, was launched in the summertime of 2020.

Along with releasing a conventional R&B album, Monica is dedicated to placing out a rustic album, Open Roads. Brandi Carlile is on board to government produce the album.

Music apart, Monica’s Apple Music radio present, Mo Discuss, remains to be on pause. The present was promised to debut in February however was silently postponed.

Mo Discuss had a number of premiere dates, courting again to Sept. 13, 2020.

In accordance with Monica, Mo Discuss might be “a secure place for us to debate the numerous issues we’ve all confronted with in right this moment’s world.”

Hearken to “Trusting God” by James Fortune and Monica under.