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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 substan

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Sequels of Black movies are suddenly very popular given the success of The Best Man Holiday and Think Like A Man 2. Now Martin Lawrence, star of the new sitcom Partners says that yes, Bad Boys 3 is on the way.

Yes, Lawrence and Will Smith will reprise their respective roles as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, Miami detectives with great comic chemistry.

The two previous films have done a great job at combining action and humor and expect this one to be no different. Lawrence told Conan O’Bri

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Datin left the movie theater wishing he had never watched The Passion of the Christ.

He felt convicted. But he had too much to lose to become a Christian.

By 2004, Datin had established himself as one of the best battle rappers in the nation. His resume included victories at 106 & Park’s Freestyle Friday, Monday Nite Fight Klub and End of the Weak’s MC Challenge.

“He was getting a crazy underground buzz,” said Lionel King, a member of Datin’s group Divided Minds.

Datin started to work with re

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“Too bad I don’t never keep my word.” Ironically those are final words in the rap that Pastor Mason Betha, better known as Ma$e delivers on the R&B song, “Tricky Situation.” Turns out, it is a fitting phrase for the nature of the hypocrisy he is being accused of by members of his congregation.

The 36-year-old leader of El Elyon International Church has returned to his bad boy rapper roots to the chagrin of his loyal congregants—a lifestyle he, for a while, denounced after coming to know Je

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