Grammy-Award winning rapper Lecrae recently appeared on the New York City radio station “Hot 97 The Morning Show” where he discussed being censored due to his lyrical content being informed by his Christian faith.

“I’m more censored than the most drugged out violent rapper,” Lecrae told host Ebro who asked if he runs into barriers due to being a Christian rapper. “They censor me more than anybody. I’m marginalized, put in a box, so it’s kind of weird. I’m sitting here trying to put substance in music and people are like, ‘nah nah.'”

Lecrae explained that some listeners assume when he raps that he’s always going to “tear off into a sermon,” and that presupposition believed by some stops people from being open minded about his music.

“I think people feel like, ‘I don’t want to listen to it because if he says Jesus, I’m going to be like, ahhh, I was on my way to the strip club,'” he said.

Lecrae also addressed his being molested as a child during the interview, which is something he also spoke about in the song “Good, Bad Ugly” on his new album “Anomaly.”

“I got a verse about [being molested] in a song called ‘Good, Bad Ugly’ where I just talk about the good, bad and ugly things I’ve experienced in life,” he shared.

Lecrae explained the reasoning behind the honesty in his music and the criticism he receives at times from fellow Christians.

“For me, I’m just real. So I think real people relate to it. People who go through real life issues are like, ‘I didn’t expect anybody to talk about that.’ For me, it’s OK to talk,” he said. “Like, I was molested as a kid. I don’t care. I’ll talk about it because I feel like I’m healed from it, so I feel like it’s no big deal. And the church be like, whoa don’t [talk about it], that’s too much. But for me, I’m like, why? It’s real. It happened.”

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SOURCE: The Christian Post
Vincent Funaro