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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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" I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That's no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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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Broken

People

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

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

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

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Urban

Music

" My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice. "

" I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be. "

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

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God

Afraid

" 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. "

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

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

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Opportunities

Creating

" I always liked the content of a Common but the commercial viability of a Lil Jon. And I would say, 'Why don't those worlds ever come together?' So for me, it was like, 'Let's do that.' "

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Why

Together

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

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

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Back

Dude

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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? "

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

" 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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People

Know

" I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely. "