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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress. "

" 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. "

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

" My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. "