It seems there has been a lot of hype lately about Lecrae. I know that a lot of people have been listening to him for a while but I have hopped on the bandwagon here recently. Honestly, the hype is legit. He is one of the best rappers I have ever heard, Christian or Not. The dude is unbelievable, he speaks more Truth in a four minute song than most pastors are able to speak in their whole career(ok maybe not but he does cram a lot into 4 minutes). It amazes me how he uses so much Scripture and even is able to quote the reference. That’s pretty impressive to me. Davey Blackburn did a post on him recently and there has been a lot of Twitter traffic about Lecrae lately as well. I was talking to one of my students the other day and he said his favorite song was Indwelling Sin. I admit, it is not my favorite song on the CD (Go Hard is…) but it is an incredible song. If you have the time listen to the song. Click Here. While you are listening here are the lyrics:
SIN: Aye look what’s good fam it’s me again. The one you used to call your friend. I know you aint forgot me?
CRAE: Oh yeah you always get me caught in sin.
SIN: Here you go with that again. You act like we aint cool or sumthin. Lets go smoke a Kool or sumthin. Talk and sip a brew or sumthin.
CRAE: Naw man I aint trusting you/ Aint nothing but lust in you/ Thanks be to God I obeyed the teaching I was entrusted to/ cause when you pass by you just want ya boy to backslide/ Have me feeling sick like I’m coming down off a crack high/
SIN: Man that’s a flat lie/ you act like I’m the bad guy/ you know when me and you get together we have a grand time/ lets take it back. All the way to like the 6th grade/ last thing on your mind back in the day was trying to live saved/ remember house parties, kissing in the dark?/ man that was innocent fun come on…
CRAE: NOW don’t start/ See dawg I live by the Spirit so I don’t gratify/ all them old sinful desires that never satsify/
SIN: Aye come on KILL THAT!/ Look me in my face and tell me I’m a lie/ You aint feeling chasing women, getting drunk, and getting high, stacking money, staying fly, living up the playas life, we was having fun now gone try to be religious guy
CRAE: Aye Yo man first of all LOWER YOUR VOICE! Who you talkin’ to?/ Handcuffed in August ’02 I got caught with you/ Truck flipped over on 35 that was all from you/ I’ll mess around and lose my life man tryna walk in you/ I’m standing on these stages and got these people believing me/ what I look like trying ta gratify this disease in me/
SIN: So Now I’m a disease? Man please. I got yo back dawg/ I aint saying drop the Jesus and be a rap star/ All Im saying is when it’s you and me lets be real folk/ We aint gotta be selling drugs and tryna kill folk/ Maybe just a lil…
CRAE: What? A lil this, a lil that, a lil BET late at night, that’s like a lil crack, see you aint gone lie to me/ I see how you be tryna be/ BET tonight becomes addiction to pornography/ and that’s in no way honoring the God who’s ruling sovereignly/
SIN: Man you know you miss them old days
CRAE: Yeah you right possibly/ But after that I sober up and think of Jesus holding up…his skin up on the cross for all them drunken nights I’m throwing up/ every thought of blowin up is captured in his flowing blood/ I start thinking Philippians 4:8 when you showing up/
SIN: You know I aint gone quit right?
CRAE: Yeah I know but I’m dead to you/ and one day I’ll be present with Jesus who died and bled from you/ Colossians 1:15 thats the God that I trust in/ the Father crushed Him/ In doing so he has crushed sin
I know the lyrics start when the actual song starts, but I think the most powerful part of the song is at the beginning when Lecrae is just going through everyday life. I think this is Nick’s favorite song because this is the struggle that we all have every single day. Maybe not the same exact issues, but we all have our struggles. The enemy is always trying to influence us to gratify our sinful nature. Unfortunately for all you youth pastors or people who are trying to influence the people around you (I think I just included ALL Christians) the one we are most often ministering to is the guy that is talking to Lecrae in the gas station. His direct quote is, “I got Jesus too, but Jesus and Hennesy go good together.” Wow, when I listened to that so many peoples faces went through my mind at the speed of light. That is why, as Christians, we need to show people what it means to love Jesus with all of our hearts, minds, souls, and strength. It’s not about just being a believer, its about being a follower of Jesus Christ! Man that part frustrates me because I know that SO MANY PEOPLE LIVE LIKE THAT AND THEY THINK THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO CHRISTIANITY!!!!! God didn’t come to JUST save us(thank God He did) but He has come to SET US FREE and crush sin!
Hope everybody has an awesome day!
