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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“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
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.
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
Four years after she became a gold medalist, gymnast Gabby Douglas is aiming for a second Olympic appearance, this time in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Robert Maxwell/Oxygen, courtesy of NBC
When Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas listens to her workout playlist, chart-topping songs by Christian music acts are among the ones she hears most.
Douglas, 20, listed “This Is Living” by Hillsong Young and Free and rapper Lecrae when asked byBillboard about her top songs. In a Self magazine interview, she cit
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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.
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The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Parry’s research examines slavery in the Atlantic world. His work has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, American Studies, and Jacobin.com. He is currently revising his manuscript Bound in Bondage: Slave Matrimony in the African Diaspora for publication. Finn is a graduate student of American Studies at Californi
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?
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Dope Christian Hip Hop music didn’t start with Lecrae. No, this has been going down since the mid-’80s. So I put together a list of seven classic christian hip hop albums you should have in your collection. This list is in no particular order, is not ranked or exhaustive. It was actually very hard to do. There are albums I wanted to add to the list but couldn't because I could only pick seven. There are more fire christian hip-hop albums so please keep digging. Also, please let me know what se
“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.
A film about the Unashamed Movement may soon be coming to a theater near you.
Art Hooker — director of the Unashamed World and, previously, President Barack Obama’s “This Is Fatherhood” campaign featuring Lecrae and Dwayne Wade — told Rapzilla that his long-awaited documentary will finally release in January 2016. He started the project in 2010 and planned to put it out in 2012. However, the career trajectory of the main character, Lecrae, kept changing.
“Had the story come out in 2012,” Hook
Here's the product description from Amazon:
If you live by people's acceptance, you'll die by their rejection.
Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity—childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
