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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Intelligent

People

Know

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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Opportunities

Creating

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

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Pains

Humanity

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

" 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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Rock

Big

" 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. "

" I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown. "

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Culture

Family

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

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Urban

Music

" 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!' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Jesus ain't American, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don't speak English and are not white when we get there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Living

Realize

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

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

" Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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People