Lecrae has been making music for more than a decade, but people are still trying to figure out what to label his work. His experience at the 2014 Grammys encapsulated the Reach Records co-founder’s enigma as he was nominated for Best Rap Performance next to Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Eminem andChildish Gambino. He lost that award, but took home Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for the Anomaly cut “Messengers.” Lecrae details this event in his forthcoming book, Unashamed, and he also spoke with HipHopDX about its significance at the Higher Learning Tour stop at Biola University Sunday.
“On one hand, Elvis’ Grammys are all in Gospel, so I’m in good company,” Lecrae says in an exclusive interview, “but at the same time, I think I want people to appreciate my music just as art. Genres a lot of times, genres are almost passé in some sense. Music is so, it’s blending and it’s hard. What’s Rock? Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, Alabama Shakes, what is Rock? So it’s like the genre blending.
“What I feel like in terms of my music is I want people to wrestle with the complexity of it and the beauty of the complexity and not just kinda write it off like ‘I get what it is. It’s just rap.’ Or ‘It’s Christian.’ Or ‘It’s indie.’ Whatever. I want you to like, no, it’s it’s own thing. Sit with it and wrestle with it and what it is in it’s own unique package. So when they hand out Grammys for that type of stuff, cool. I think that’s why people want to win Album of the Year because that means it transcends all the little pockets. It’s just good.”
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