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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. "

Lecrae

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Lecrae

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" People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does. "

Lecrae

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People

" 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. "

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

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

Lecrae

Opportunities

Creating

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda. "

" I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker. "

" When God's hand is on you, there's nothing anybody can do to stop that. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing. "

" Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from. "

" 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

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

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

" I hate systemic oppression in America. "