Unashamed
Summary
Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity. He grew up without a father and a mother who worked so often to keep them afloat that she was often not around. His other peers in his life were also not positive influences. His baby sitter even rapped him at around the age of five. This combined with being surrounded by drugs lead him to a sex, alcohol, and drug addictions. His Uncle also almost got him into a gang but right before he was about to join the decided to pursue is love for music.
He had always loved Hip-Hop and he said it was like a father he had never had. So he decided to get out of the thug life and go to college. Lecrae found himself trapped between two worlds, his old kind of life and his music life. This left him lost and he tried to find his identity in religion. His reason for religion was to make his life better and to have friends but again his "friends" judged him and fell under the pressure of his old life. After another stent of hitting a low point in his life he went back to christianity. This time he went for it he dove into religion but instead of truly loving God he just took the steps to show it, and he did it in a non loving way. He blamed people for not loving Jesus he would tell everyone that with every little sin that they were going straight to Hell. He even stopped listening to Hip-Hop or secular music because it talked about the world. Soon Lecrae realized that he did not like this "I am holy" life and started to go back to his old ways and again hit a low but this time he did not turn go good like some drug, instead he tried to commit suicide.
He was about to go through with it, but he instead turned into a hospital and said that he was going to kill himself and he needed help. This was when his faith got real. In rehab the only thing that kept him going was christ and the bible. He realized that being a christian means you are not perfect and that your identity is in him. That you live in this world so do not act like you do not know what is going on around you.
He had always loved Hip-Hop and he said it was like a father he had never had. So he decided to get out of the thug life and go to college. Lecrae found himself trapped between two worlds, his old kind of life and his music life. This left him lost and he tried to find his identity in religion. His reason for religion was to make his life better and to have friends but again his "friends" judged him and fell under the pressure of his old life. After another stent of hitting a low point in his life he went back to christianity. This time he went for it he dove into religion but instead of truly loving God he just took the steps to show it, and he did it in a non loving way. He blamed people for not loving Jesus he would tell everyone that with every little sin that they were going straight to Hell. He even stopped listening to Hip-Hop or secular music because it talked about the world. Soon Lecrae realized that he did not like this "I am holy" life and started to go back to his old ways and again hit a low but this time he did not turn go good like some drug, instead he tried to commit suicide.
He was about to go through with it, but he instead turned into a hospital and said that he was going to kill himself and he needed help. This was when his faith got real. In rehab the only thing that kept him going was christ and the bible. He realized that being a christian means you are not perfect and that your identity is in him. That you live in this world so do not act like you do not know what is going on around you.
Themes
“Your true character is revealed not by how you act when life goes your way, but how you act when the bottom falls out” (103).
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Finding a Place in the World
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