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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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" 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. "

Lecrae

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music. "

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

" 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. "

Lecrae

People

God

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

" Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others. "

" Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism. "

" Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church. "

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

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

Lecrae

Back

Dude

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

" 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. "

" Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand. "

" 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. "

" I'm all about authenticity. "

Lecrae

Authenticity

About

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

Lecrae

Pain

Suffering

" 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. "

" I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre. "

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

" 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. "

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

" 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. "