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" A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us. "
Lecrae
Media
Believe
Awards
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" I'm all about authenticity. "
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" 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.' "
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" Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others. "
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" For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I'm either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I'm this tree-hugging liberal. You're stereotyped. It's almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be. "
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Know
" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "
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" I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit. "
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" I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for. "
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" I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be. "
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You
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" I spent some time in Cairo, and you see these Coptic Christians and Muslims holding hands. They got a rich history together of working together and cohabitating. You couldn't pay to see that in America. "
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" Jesus ain't American, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don't speak English and are not white when we get there. "
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Heaven
Speak
Know
" You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of. "
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Everyone
Much
" Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down. "
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Enough
Down
" I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That's no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things. "
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People
Think
Way
" In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police. "
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Black
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" Waka is really intelligent. A lot of people don't know that because he just gets people hyped up, but he's a dynamic individual, and once you get to know him, you get to see a lot of that. "
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" You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus. "
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Celebrate
Without
" 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. "
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Yourself
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" I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross' engineers are in Atlanta. "
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Atlanta
Because
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" I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism. "
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Sense
Any
White
" My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.' "
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" A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me. "
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" 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. "
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" You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine. "
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" Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual. "
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" America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice. "
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Choice
" In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning. "
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Connection
Name
Meaning
" If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category. "
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Black
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" We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy. "
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People
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" I hate systemic oppression in America. "
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" 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. "
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