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Lecrae

American Musician

Born: Oct 9, 1979

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I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.' Lecrae

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If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure. Lecrae

God Secure Significance Know Always Then

What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am. Lecrae

Else Table No-One Am Unique Bring Brings

In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police. Lecrae

Hate Police Black Out Brothers Had Cry Order

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go. Lecrae

You People Will Only Put Mainstream Like Go

I always liked the content of a Common but the commercial viability of a Lil Jon. And I would say, 'Why don't those worlds ever come together?' So for me, it was like, 'Let's do that.' Lecrae

Me Together Worlds Say Those Would Jon Come Like Liked Content Always Commercial Viability Common Why Ever

I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn't mean I'm a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I'm a jacked up person, and I need a savior. Lecrae

Life Me Live Life Live Living Christian Savior Admit Readily Up Person Mean Means Function Living Life Need

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together. Lecrae

Life Together Down Honestly About Laying His Who Jesus Marginalized

I'm digesting C.S. Lewis and Tim Keller and so on and so forth, Francis Schaeffer. I'm seeing how they've affected culture and politics and science and so on and so forth, with implicit faith versus explicit faith. Lecrae

Politics Faith Science Culture Francis Seeing Implicit How Tim Affected Versus Explicit Forth Keller Lewis

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude. Lecrae

Me Back Had Dude Years Conversations Forth

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well. Lecrae

Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm. Lecrae

You Yourself Considered Those Outside Put Make Context Hip-Hop Norm Artist Artistic Being Urban Unique Things

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music. Lecrae

Music Me Experience Mother First Rap Rap Music Kind Songs House She Halfway Hip-Hop Different Former Worked Full

I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not like, 'Oh, let me get one tattoo.' It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered. Lecrae

Me You Old Type Extreme Kind Arm Like Know Always Am Been Covered Person Get Tattoo Oh Whole

Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down. Lecrae

Me You Long Down Enough Out Bound Hang

I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely. Lecrae

Myself People Just Be Rather Putting Like Genuinely Just Connecting Thing

I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home. Lecrae

Home Perspective Out Road Real Artist Just Want Happening

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard. Lecrae

History Give Voice Heard Your Credence Violence

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive. Lecrae

Work You Together People Thrive Different Kinds Kind Kinds Some Allies Know Protect Another Got Friends Begin Fronts Where Different Form Unified Work Together Create Really Your Help Who

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate. Lecrae

Me Suffering Made Stronger Pain More Through Activist Compassionate

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there's no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well. Lecrae

I know where my bills get paid from, and that's God! Lecrae

God Know Get Where Paid Bills

I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism. Lecrae

Sense White Feel Any

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