He tells Geiger,. I started to dig back and got into my D. I think he just got it. He totally got being immersed in culture, affecting it, transforming it, but not losing his grip of his solid convictions of who Jesus was. So to understand Lecrae, we need to understand Francis Schaeffer and what he said about art. As soon as the movement began it was plagued with confusion. While some of us were trying to embrace the gifts God was pouring out on the body, others were calling them a curse.
They claimed that contemporary styles, even certain instruments like the guitar were not appropriate or acceptable for the church. Sound familiar? A fledgling movement riddled with debates about how to make art that is true to Scripture and beautiful and culturally engaging.
Schaeffer offered answers. Card recounts,. At a time when we needed concrete, biblical objectives, Schaeffer provided perspectives and structures…We were free, he insisted, our imaginations were free. We were free to create, as long as we never forgot that we are slaves to Jesus. Part of that freedom was the freedom to dialogue with the modern secular world. He [Schaeffer] listened to and dialogued with the modern secular world as it expressed itself in literature and art, which most evangelicals were too cocooned in their own subculture to do.
Schaeffer gave Christians the confidence to step outside the walls of the church and engage in cultural production and critique. In light of this, we need to take another look at the controversy surrounding Lecrae and Reach Records. As far as John is concerned, he did come up in the church, so that his journey — his faith walk — is his story to tell.
But what I know and made public is his desire to see change in society, that things can be restored, that we can be better tomorrow, more so than we are today.
On that we have solidarity. How did you get to this place? Historically, I looked up to artists with authenticity — those who were authentically themselves, and not just making songs that were distant from who they were as people.
I probably never would have been the type of artist to discuss jewels and miscellaneous things. I wanted to communicate something. And I wanted to believe in what I communicated. As far as my faith went, it was rooted in evidence.
Where was the evidence? What changed my vantage point was that I did have worth and purpose. I wanted to live as a person who had that worth. I wanted to live my dreams. I had to wrestle with that. If I have value it had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere was a deity. I just had to figure who that deity was. I landed at Christianity because every other route I took, it was about me becoming a better person in order for God to accept me, where with Christianity, I was not good enough, but asked Jesus to accept me as I am.
Now, I make music out of that vulnerability. For the new album, how has your faith evolved in tandem with your aesthetics? What is the relationship between you, God and the audience? I cannot make a person know that God loves them. They have to experience that. There is a physical level and a spiritual level of restoration. If you choose the spiritual, the deeper level, God bless you. Christians have really used and, almost in some senses, prostituted art in order to give answers instead of telling great stories and raising great questions.
In August of this year , singer Katy Perry was found guilty by a court of improperly copying a Christian rap song, Joyful Noise , in her own song, Dark Horse. The rap song was by a Christian rapper named Flame and featured Lecrae.
Abraham asked for a son and God gave him a nation. Im just asking for a beard. Lecrae's mainstream success supports that theory, given that the decorated artist has won multiple Grammy and Billboard awards. But at the height of his success, the musician reached a tough point of self-reflection. Throughout the pandemic, bouts of ego death and self-rediscovery have been prevalent for the artist, he said.
He discusses his mental health, childhood traumas and healing in his new novel. It narrates how his rise to the top ultimately took him to rock bottom. Throughout back-to-back tour dates and press appearances, Lecrae suffered behind closed doors with problems from his childhood. He would turn to drugs and alcohol to cope with his pain. I was working so hard, traveling everywhere show after show, and for me to decompress, it was like alright I'm gonna have a drink, but then that turned into, like, I need two, three, four and five," Lecrae said.
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