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" My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. "
Lecrae
Line
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Christian
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" 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. "
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" I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment. "
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" History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard. "
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" Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church. "
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" A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned. "
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" 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. "
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" The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people. "
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Me
" I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go. "
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You
" 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. "
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" Christians have no idea how to deal with art. "
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" 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. "
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" The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate. "
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" When God's hand is on you, there's nothing anybody can do to stop that. "
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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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" As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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.' "
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" 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. "
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" We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy. "
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" I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "
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" 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. "
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" Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude. "
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