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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. "
Lecrae
Me
Living
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" A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time. "
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" 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. "
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" As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life. "
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" Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned. "
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" I know I'm wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don't have any bearing on my worth and what I mean. "
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You
" 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. "
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" That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' "
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" 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. "
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" I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul. "
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" If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure. "
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" My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. "
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" Growing up in inner-city neighborhoods, there's a particular structure, which I'm sure is true of most social contexts. The type of person you are determines the role you play. "
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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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" 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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" 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.' "
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" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "
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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 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. "
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" I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "
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" If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy. "
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" Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. "
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" Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me. "
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" When you have legends who want to do music with you, and you befriend the Kendrick Lamars and the Chance the Rappers, that's due to you really being authentically hip-hop and not being contemporary Christian. "
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" I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism. "
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" I hate systemic oppression in America. "
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" I'm all about authenticity. "
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