Evangelicals’ favorite rapper is so successful, Billboard has changed how it ranks Christian music. Update (Feb. 8): Lecrae's collaboration with For King & Country, "Messengers," won the Grammy Award ...
It was just another day on the media circuit for Lecrae, a 36-year-old Atlanta rapper with a Grammy Award under his belt and a best-selling book to promote. Dressed in the trendy chic of hip-hop ...
Jamie Grace's long-running hit single "Beautiful Day" finishes 2014 as the year's No. 1 Hot Gospel Song. That chart-topping finish was encouraged by its handsome 20-week run at No. 1 atop the weekly… ...
Who said mainstream rappers like Jay-Z, Kanye West and T.I. are the only ones who can land at the top of the charts and captivate a legion of fans with the quick spit of a hot sixteen! Just take a ...
Lecrae says the first “gospel” album he ever heard was The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Classic. He was asked to pray for the Atlanta Falcons during the Super Bowl. We’re not even gonna capitalize on ...
Reach Records is preparing to kick 2022 into high gear as the 116 hip-hop collective will head out on tour of North and South America next year. The crew of gospel rappers includes the likes of Lecrae ...
An evangelical Christian rapper has taken over the iTunes hip-hop/rap chart. Three of the top 10 spots, including slots No. 1 and No. 2, have belonged to Lecrae ever since his new album, Gravity, ...
Christian rapper Lecrae and producer Zaytoven's Let the Trap Say Amen flies in at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart (dated July 7), earning 11,000 equivalent album units (7,000 in… By ...
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes But if I talk about God my record won't get played, huh? Not so for Lecrae. At the end of September, the 34 ...
ATLANTA — Lecrae is dubbed a Christian rapper, but he considers himself a rapper who happens to be Christian. The artist, who won a gospel-album Grammy Award for Gravity in 2013, is trying to avoid ...
It’s not rare for an artist to own and operate his own label. It’s almost common that an artist with his own label has a roster of talent to boast about. What is rare is an independent label owner ...