Lecrae: Holy Hip Hop Makes Its Mark

By Lisa Collins, senior music editor, GospelMusicChannel.com

Back in the day I was a lunch line rapper / after that I guess I was a punch line rapper / then I got saved and sometime after / ya boy came back as a frontline rapper… I’m out here preachin’ Christ on the frontlines / and no it ain’t about rockin’ stages / ‘coz some of my engagements are out on the pavements.

These words from Lecrae’s “After the Music Stops” signify an underground movement that in the last several years may finally be coming into its own. And if that is the case, the artist behind those words is one of the reasons why, or so his record sales say.

In just shy of five years, Lecrae Moore (better known as “Lecrae”), has seen two out three of his albums chart in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart. With multiple sales chart appearances, his third CD, Rebel—released in September of 2008—soared to the top of the Billboard charts, becoming the highest debuting album in the Christian rap industry.

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