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" It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups. "

Lecrae

Black

Myself

Man

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

Lecrae

Pains

Humanity

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" I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment? "

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Lecrae

Fun

Life

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

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

Lecrae

Urban

Music

" 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. "

" 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 not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do. "

Lecrae

God

Afraid

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

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

" I hate systemic oppression in America. "

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

Lecrae

Unique

Bring

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Lecrae

People

God

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

" Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm. "

" 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. "

" 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. "