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Award-winning Christian rapper Lecrae is used to playing sold-out arena shows. But he took a gig in a rather unusual venue last month — Carol S. Vance Unit prison in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Heading inside the facility with fellow musicians Andy Mineo and Tedashii, Lecrae met with inmates to hear stories of how many of them had come to Christ, and tried to offer some hope and wisdom of his own.
The acclaimed artist visited in partnership with Prison Fellowship, a ministry organization that works with “talented people in entertainment and restorative programs to bring awareness to the 2.2 million people behind bars in America today.”
Making his way through the heavily fortified security gates Lecrae said he loves to “connect with people that society has forgotten.”
The pair's new hip-hop record, 'So Many Feelings,' is another bold step forward in Christian music.
In 2013, Sho Baraka veered away from the Christian hip-hop (“CHH”) playbook and dropped Talented 10th, an album that broke new ground for a faith-based rapper by challenging systemic racism and other social issues head-on. From that point forward, the rest of CHH spat lines they’d previously held back.
So Sareem Poems is not your typical rapper. While others in hip hop celebrate sinning, he raps about living righteously. You could almost call him a Christian rapper, given that he is Christian and a rapper, but that seems like too constraining a label, especially since "Christian rap" isn't exactly a quality cue. You could call him a conscious rapper, and that description fits better. However, he doesn't sound like a conscious rapper, or at least the mellow, bohemian variety. They all smoke pot, anyways. Sareem has a authoritative, commanding flow that is one part preacher, one part Chuck D., and one part Black Thought. It gives his rhyming a gravitas and a sense of anger. Even when he is rapping about love or other positive things, he still sounds slightly ticked off.
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Huawei has endured a torrid time this past week after the U.S. government ordered a trade ban against the company. The ban directly affects customers too, as Google and other U.S. tech companies were forced to cut all ties with the firm.
The U.S. issued a limited 90-day reprieve yesterday, allowing existing Huawei devices to continue to access official updates from Google. Nevertheless, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told the state-backed Global Times outlet that sanctions won’t damage its core operations.
“The company is able to continue providing products and services, and the U.S. sanctions will not hurt our core business,” Ren was quoted as saying. The Huawei founder also praised U.S. companies in the interview.
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