Top 60 Lecrae Quotes

People who’ve only seen me perform might assume that I’m confident and that being ignored wouldn’t bother me – but it does.

I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn’t just for the super-religious. I want to address themes that people who aren’t Christian can appreciate.

Hip-hop is substance. It’s social. It’s science – that’s what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain’t nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.

I’m not afraid of people; I’m afraid of not doing what God created me to do.

You don’t realize you’re vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

Many people don’t know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others.

History doesn’t give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn’t mean I’m a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I’m a jacked up person, and I need a savior.

I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That’s no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things.

Many times, that’s how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens – not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.

I’ve always been the type of person – you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I’m not like, ‘Oh, let me get one tattoo.’ It’s, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

It is possible to call God ‘Lord,’ to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.

Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that’s doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that’s really the lane that I uniquely connect with.

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross’ engineers are in Atlanta.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, ‘I hate police.’

Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, ‘You need to get your act together.’ Faith is about having a loving father who says, ‘Hey, listen… I’m here with you. I’m going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.’

Jesus ain’t American, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don’t speak English and are not white when we get there.

I know where my bills get paid from, and that’s God!

When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta’s lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

I’ll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn’t know what else to look for.

Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church.

A lot of times, when you don’t have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don’t think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

When you have legends who want to do music with you, and you befriend the Kendrick Lamars and the Chance the Rappers, that’s due to you really being authentically hip-hop and not being contemporary Christian.

I’m free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I’m speaking as a liberated person.

My stepdad didn’t have a father growing up, so he didn’t know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice.

In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

Hang out with me long enough, and I’m bound to let you down.

I always liked the content of a Common but the commercial viability of a Lil Jon. And I would say, ‘Why don’t those worlds ever come together?’ So for me, it was like, ‘Let’s do that.’

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn’t have it all together.

If you suffocate my blackness, you’ve got to realize that’s supremacy.

A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, ‘Why not? I don’t have anything to lose.’ I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don’t frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

If my significance comes from God, then I know I’m always secure.

When God’s hand is on you, there’s nothing anybody can do to stop that.

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there’s no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well.

To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

My music is not Christian – Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

There’s a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don’t tell the story of the people who don’t come out so successful, and we don’t tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.

What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

I don’t like putting on airs; that’s not my thing. I’d rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely.

I spent some time in Cairo, and you see these Coptic Christians and Muslims holding hands. They got a rich history together of working together and cohabitating. You couldn’t pay to see that in America.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

You can’t celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus.

I just don’t want to be the artist who’s out on the road and has no real perspective of what’s happening at home.

I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn’t okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, ‘Hey, you should rap about Jesus.’

I’ve done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I’ve done songs with B.O.B. I’ve done songs with Big Kit.

My views as a Christian means there’s a moral plumb line that I’m fighting to adhere to.

I know I’m wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don’t have any bearing on my worth and what I mean.