Lecrae to Make his Third Appearance On ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ November 1st
Lecrae has announced that he will be performing again on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The scheduled taping of the NBC television show will feature guests Whoopi Goldberg, Zoe Lister-Jones, and will end with Lecrae as the musical guest,
Ebro of Hot 97 thinks Lecrae may have influenced Chance The Rapper
“People’s spirituality has always been covered in hip hop,” Ebro said. “We’ve had this debate about spirituality and God-philosophy in hip hop forever. ‘Jesus Walks’ for Kanye West was a very poignant radio, mainstream media moment where, even in the song, he says that he didn’t think radio was gonna play the record because it’s about God…
“Now, with Chance the Rapper, it kinda feels like you’ve opened that conversation even a little bit more. I don’t know if you take credit for that, but I kinda feel like after your album Anomaly, people … and Chance has always been there, but I feel like on this album, he felt like on Coloring Book he could go farther. Do you and Chance have a relationship?”
“We DM back and forth a little bit. Our managers are cool,” Lecrae said.
But he declined to take credit for an increase in faith-related hip hop today.
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Hot 97 interviewed Lecrae when he dropped his new single, “Can’t Stop Me Now”, and co-host Ebro Darden suggested that Lecrae’s album Anomaly may have made hip-hop artists like Chance The Rapper more comfortable to rap about their faith more frequently.
“People’s spirituality has always been covered in hip hop,” Ebro said. “We’ve had this debate about spirituality and God-philosophy in hip hop forever. ‘Jesus Walks’ for Kanye West was a very poignant radio, mainstream media moment where, even in the song, he says that he didn’t think radio was gonna play the record because it’s about God…
“Now, with Chance the Rapper, it kinda feels like you’ve opened that conversation even a little bit more. I don’t know if you take credit for that, but I kinda feel like after your album Anomaly, people … and Chance has always been there, but I feel like on this album, he felt like on Coloring Book he could go farther. Do you and Chance have a relationship?”
“We DM back and forth a little bit. Our managers are cool,” Lecrae said.
But he declined to take credit for an increase in faith-related hip hop today.
Read More Here
Sadat X and Jurny Big talk fatherhood on Flowers
Sadat X and Jurny Big on the rhymes, Sebastian Hochstein on the beat, and DJ Kair One on the cuts. Sadat X and Jurny Big rhyme about raising their daughters in the midst of a crazy, crazy world.
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