The Cool Gives God the Glory on New Gospel Record “Hosanna”

If Lifted has a spiritual centre, it’s Hosanna, a gospel record featuring Omega Circle. It’s a direct, unadorned offering built around a single clear purpose: giving God the glory He deserves.

There’s nothing complicated about the song’s intention. Where much of contemporary music dresses up its themes in metaphor or subtext, “Hosanna” is refreshingly straightforward, offering praise without needing to dress it up as anything else. That directness is part of what makes it land as a gospel record — it doesn’t ask listeners to interpret its meaning, it simply states it, in the tradition of worship music built to be sung along to rather than analysed.

The collaboration with Omega Circle reinforces that gospel identity. Omega Circle’s presence on the track situates “Hosanna” firmly within a worship lineage, bringing a voice and sensibility shaped specifically around gospel songwriting into the record. It’s a pairing that makes sense on paper and delivers on record — two artists with worship at the centre of their work coming together on a song whose entire purpose is praise.

Its placement on Lifted feels deliberate rather than incidental. The Cool has spoken about wanting this project to explore both love and worship within one body of work, and “Hosanna” is where that gospel half of the equation comes fully into focus, giving listeners a moment built purely around gratitude and reverence.

For an artist whose broader catalogue already leans into gospel-influenced work, “Hosanna” continues a thread that’s clearly central to his identity as a producer. It sits in a lineage of worship music built to lift a room rather than simply soundtrack one — songs meant for congregations, for quiet personal reflection, and for the kind of collective voice that gospel music has always been built around in South African church and community life.

That grounding matters for how the song is likely to be received. Gospel audiences tend to respond to sincerity over spectacle, and “Hosanna” leans fully into that expectation — a song about giving glory that doesn’t get distracted by anything else along the way. Coming from a producer and a collaborator both known for worship-facing material, it reads less like an experiment and more like a natural continuation of work both have been building toward.

“Hosanna” offers a necessary reminder that praise and worship sit at the very heart of this project — not as an afterthought, but as one of its defining themes.

“Hosanna,” featuring Omega Circle, is available now on all streaming platforms as part of Lifted.

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