Lecrae Quotes

Lecrae

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 9, 1979

I think complexity is beautiful.

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I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.

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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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It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.'

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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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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.

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