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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith. "

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

" 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'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "

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

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

" Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, 'You need to get your act together.' Faith is about having a loving father who says, 'Hey, listen... I'm here with you. I'm going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.' "

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

" When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive. "

" Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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!' "

" 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'm all about authenticity. "

" If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure. "

" 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. "

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

" It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God. "

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

" 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. "

" Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well. "