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" As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition. "

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" In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning. "

Lecrae

Connection

Name

Meaning

" My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else. "

" 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

Living

Live Life

" My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life. "

" That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' "

" Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that's doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that's really the lane that I uniquely connect with. "

" I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul. "

" The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people. "

Lecrae

Opportunities

Creating

" 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. "

" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "

" If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy. "

" No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it. "

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

Lecrae

Unique

Bring

" 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. "

" Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of. "

" When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!' "

" 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. "

Lecrae

Rock

Big

" Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Christians have no idea how to deal with art. "

" Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned. "

Lecrae

Urban

Music

" I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn't okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, 'Hey, you should rap about Jesus.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was. "

Lecrae

Living

Realize

" I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn't just for the super-religious. I want to address themes that people who aren't Christian can appreciate. "