American - Musician | October 9, 1979 -
I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.
Lecrae
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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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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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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.
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If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure.
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America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.
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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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Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.
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I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.
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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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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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My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.
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