Quotes from Lecrae

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

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

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

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

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

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.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.

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!'

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

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.

I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn't mean I'm a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I'm a jacked up person, and I need a savior.

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

I know I'm wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don't have any bearing on my worth and what I mean.

I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.

A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down.

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.

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.

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

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.'