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" You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine. "

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" 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.' "

Lecrae

Music

Listen

Think

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

" What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am. "

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Bring

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

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" Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that's doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that's really the lane that I uniquely connect with. "

" 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. "

Lecrae

Living

Realize

" For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I'm either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I'm this tree-hugging liberal. You're stereotyped. It's almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be. "

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

" I spent some time in Cairo, and you see these Coptic Christians and Muslims holding hands. They got a rich history together of working together and cohabitating. You couldn't pay to see that in America. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lecrae

People

See

" I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "

" I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go. "

" My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Lecrae

Rock

Big

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive. "

Lecrae

Fun

Life

" 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. "