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Lecrae shared his heart with Billboard magazine—no holds barred—in this video interview. Here’s one of the most powerful things he said:

“As a rapper who is a devout Christian, you would think I would struggle or wrestle with compromise because a lot of hip-hop is full of violence and misogyny and so forth but it’s not really a struggle for me because it’s not my reality. It’s not the life that I’m living.”

Watch the rest of the video to see how Lecrae is working to make an im

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And on the eighth day, God created air conditioning. 

Biblically speaking this may not be true, but on this sweltering late-August morning in Atlanta, any cool breeze feels heaven-sent. Out in the heat, 34-year-old rapper Lecrae and a six-person video crew are filming a music video for "All I Need Is You," the third single from Lecrae's new album, Anomaly. You would hardly know it from the indie-sized shoot, but Lecrae is a superstar -- in Christian music, at least. His last album, Gravity, d

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Mary Mary

Gospel duo Mary Mary is pretty much known to be a crossover gospel group. Since their album, Something Big, was released the two have been appearing in several mainstream media outlets.

Most recently, they appeared on Billboard.com singing a rendition of pop artist Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are." While they have reached a peak that not a lot of gospel artists meet, did they go too far or is it just a merely simple song used to reach the masses?

In Billboard.com's Mashup Monday, the sisters

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