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" My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.' "

Lecrae

Police

Say

Friends

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Lecrae

People

See

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

" I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.' "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross' engineers are in Atlanta. "

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

" If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category. "

" 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. "

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

Lecrae

Back

Dude

" Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others. "

Lecrae

People

Know

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

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

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

Lecrae

Opportunities

Creating

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lecrae

Broken

People

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

Lecrae

Pains

Humanity

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

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

" College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

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