In a previous interview, Lecrae shared more details about his upcoming album, which is now available for pre-order. “You're my last resort, when it's too late / You're the only one, who takes my pain away / So tell me that You'll never let me down.” “Tell me that You'll never let me down / Cause You're my final breath before I drown,” Legend belts out in the chorus. Lecrae released his latest single “Drown,” featuring mainstream artist John Legend, this month. Hosted by post shared by on at 7:46pm PDT Hear how and are impacting their communities and making a difference.
So Restoration feels like, 'Yo, here it is.' I don't know that's how I'm feeling.” “There's some new blood out here and I just want the new blood to come and do their thing. "It's a younger generation right now man, so you know, I feel like I may give them another Church Clothes and close a chapter out,” he said. The rapping veteran said his reason for considering music retirement is because he wants to make for other young artists coming up in the ranks. “So it might be it, we'll see, that's kind of how I'm feeling.” “I mean I'll probably do some mixtapes, but I don't know if I'm making another full-featured album.” And this might be it for me,” Lecrae told Rapzilla. “ Restoration, I mean, honestly, everybody says it's the best album ever made, but this is for real. The popular Grammy Award-winning artist who shares his message of faith publicly revealed that this project might actually be his last full-length feature. “That's always what I'm going to be on so who knows what it'll be in the next season of my life but that's where I'm at right now.”Īfter several delays, due to COVID-19, Lecrae’s next album, Restoration, is due to release in the near future. “Whether that's 'send me, I'll go,' whether that's rebel, rebel against the culture, whether that's equality, whatever it is I'm going to be about that.” I'm going to say what's true,” Lecrae said, speaking of his tendency to advocate for what he believes. The popular Christian entertainer was a guest on Rapzilla’s “Community During Chaos” Instagram live session on Tuesday alongside artists Coop and CJ Luckey.ĭuring the interview, Lecrae spoke of Black Lives Matter, the “White Blessing” incident, the LGBT community, and his new album and book. Reach Records founder and beloved hip-hop artist Lecrae revealed that he’s considering retiring from music after his upcoming album, Restoration. It’s precisely this kind of gritty, soul-baring honesty (as well as some truly brilliant pop hooks) that makes Lecrae one of the most important rappers of his generation.Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0 Lecrae participates in the memorial service for Ravi Zacharias at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 29, 2020. One of his most powerful songs, 2020’s “Deep End”, details his sense of helplessness and need for spiritual healing in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Rather, he uses his faith as a lens through which to probe life’s hardships, such as his struggles with depression and self-doubt, as well as the socioeconomic conditions under which Black Americans are forced to live.
Lecrae doesn’t merely offer up Sunday-morning feel-good jams (though that’s certainly an aspect of his mission). You could talk about some deep stuff that was going on in your world.” This last point is key.
“There was an understanding or a depth that was warranted. and Kendrick ,” he revealed to Apple Music. Having endured a hardscrabble childhood that led him to seek refuge in the self-reflecting verses of 2Pac and Nas, the Houston native generally places himself within mainstream currents. His fusion of street-bred realism with a Christ-centred worldview has resulted in a run of albums, including 2014’s career-defining Anomaly, that have raced up Billboard’s gospel, Christian and pop charts.
When the rapper and record executive (born Lecrae Devaughn Moore in 1979) dropped his debut, Real Talk, in 2004, the genre was stuck between worlds-sitting outside mainstream hip-hop while relegated to second-tier status in gospel. Christian hip-hop can be broken into two eras: before the arrival of Lecrae and after.
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