Today’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to 2011 when Lecrae spoke to Rapzilla about the growth of Christian Hip-Hop.
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Canon and Derek Minor's “Over Do It” Video Inspired by Richard Pryor’s “Brewster's Million” Movie Premieres on Radio One / Interactive One Canon's Loose Canon Vol. 3 Debuts at #15 on Billboard Rap Albums Chart |
(Atlanta, GA) Canon and Derek Minor put a hip-hop spin on Richard Pryor’s 1985 comedy Brewster’s Million for their video for “Over Do It” from Canon’s Loose Canon Vol. 3 album on Reflection Music Group that debuted at #15 on Billboard’s Rap Albums chart.
The music video premier
“I’d like to welcome everybody to the Destination Tour,” he said at Concord Music Hall in Chicago on Thursday. “We wanted to create this intimate environment where we could talk to people and invite people in times like these to come together to have a destination, to have a place to come to just to breathe.
“See, no matter where you come from or what your background is, you are accepted here tonight. No matter your lifestyle
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,
The piece, ”The Pains of Humanity Have Been Draining Me,” is a deep and honest revelation into Lecrae’s heart. The artist gets about personal about his feelings as he’s ever done before and tries to paint a picture of some of the noise going on his head.
“I navigate different cultures daily, and I
"Soulful…Rolling through the streets of New York and Tennessee, Minor spotlights the South that raised him as well as the places that his success has taken him." – Billboard
Derek Minor teams with BJ the Chicago Kid for “Until I’m Gone,” the third single from Minor’s sixth album, Reflection, out on Minor’s Reflection Music Group/eOne Music on October 14, and now available for pre-order on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon. The music video premieres Wednesday on BILLBOARD.
On the song,
To go Gold, an album must sell 500,000 units. Other hip-hop artists whose albums have gone Gold over the past year include Meek Mill, Childish Gambino and Wale.
Reach Records released Anomaly on Sept. 9, 2014. The following week, the LP moved 88,000 units, earning the top spot on the Billboard 200.
The Reach Records rapper’s named appeared alongside Quavo and Big K.R.I.T.
#HipHopAwards continues to get HOTTER! Quavo, Big KRIT and Lecrae confirmed to perform. Tune in Tuesday, October 4 at 8 PM ET/PT on @BET
Lecrae wasn’t nominated for a BET Hip-Hop Award but for the second straight year, the BET Awards nominated Lecrae fo
This song is about the importance of being yourself and by being yourself you are reflecting the greatness that you were created to be. It celebrates each of our differences and challenges us to chase our purpose.
Video: Derek Minor "You Know It"
Directed by Will Thomas for Space Cherry Films.
"You Know It" is from the 1014 EP and is available now at digital outlets (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play etc).
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https://amazon.com/1014-EP-Derek-Minor/dp/B01IC9U7PI
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Yesterday, we received news that Nelson Chu a.k.a DJ Official had passed on due to complications related to a recent lung-transplant surgery. The surgery happened as the climax of Official’s struggles with a rare form of cancer. He was very hopeful going into the operation, posting, “ It’s go time!!!! [The] lungs are GOOD to go. 1:30 a.m. is the surgery time. Prayers appreciated for my wife, family, surgeons and lastly, me”, just hours before the operation. His hope in the face of the potenti
Reach broke the news that GAWVI will drop an EP on July 29 and Sept. 9 through a video titled "Hues".
Mediaite.com reports that:
If his intro calling them a "hate America" group wasn't enough indication, Bill O'Reilly was clearly teed off at Black Lives Matter tonight and got very confrontational with an NAACP official over the group's tactics. O'Reilly told NAACP Washington bureau director Hilary Shelton that if black people want to bring the country together, they need to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at Mediaite.com.
My family on July 4th 1776.
@lecrae Done supporting you bro. You make everything a race issues lately instead of a gospel issue. You promote guilt instead of love.
@Hevi_On_Honkers nah it's actually your tweets that are problematic racially.
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Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
ESPN Music, which has over 50,000 followers on Spotify, posted a new playlist on Friday made by Lecrae for the 2016 NBA Finals, which started this week.
Lecrae's NBA Finals Playlist:
- Lecrae - I'm Turnt
- Andy Mineo - You Can't Stop Me
- KB - I Believe (feat. Mattie of For Today)
- Trip Lee - Insomniac (feat. Andy Mineo)
- Lecrae - Sidelines
- Lecrae - Nuthin
- Lecrae - Can't Do You (feat. E-40)
- Lecrae - I Know
- Tedashii - Be Me
- Swoope - Same Team (feat. Dre Murray, Yaves, Tedashii, JGivens & John Givez
- KB
Jam The Hype Jam the Hype
GRAMMY award-winning hip-hop artist, Lecrae, has inked a deal with legendary record company, Columbia Records. The deal is in conjunction with his own imprint, Reach Records, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Columbia Records also has Adele, Beyonce, and Pharrell Williams, among others, on their roster.
What do you think this means for the future of the Christian hip-hop community?
RELATED: ESPN – Lecrae On ‘Unashamed,’ Stephen Curry, & Building With Pr
“Over the college’s 50-year history, it has bestowed honorary degrees to notable leaders such as the Hon. Jim Flaherty, lieutenant-governor David Onley, Rev. Franklin Graham and now Lecrae, who will be the youngest recipient of such a degree,” Canada Christian College president Dr. Charles McVety said, according to the
Unashamed World, the long-awaited film by director Art Hooker on Lecrae and his fellow 116 Clique members' grassroots movement which went global, officially has a release date.
Unashamed World will hit theaters nationwide on June 1, according to a trailer released this week.
Unashamed World will hit theaters nationwide on June 1, according to a trailer released this week.
