R3- Lecrae- Gravity
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Artist: Lecrae
Album: Gravity
Label: Reach Records
Reviewer: Hasan James
Before I get into this review I want to make it clear that Lecrae can go head to head with any secular album out there; 2 Chains, Rick Ross, Nas, Kanye, Jay-Z, Li lWayne….all of them!
Houston Texas native, Lecrae, proves once again why he is one of God music’s top sellers, on his latest release “Gravity.” The 15 song set is a praise party of sorts with appearances by artists like Mali Music, Tadashii, This’l, JR, PRo, Sho Baraka, Andy Mineo and Mathai from NBC’s. “The Voice.”
In typical Lecrae fashion the sixth studio album by the young veteran features the three B’s; Bible, Boldness and Beats! Since his last offering, 2011’s “Rehab: The Overdose”, Lecrae Moore has sold more records than anyone else in his genre, shocked the entire Hip Hop world with his unbelievable verse as part of the cypher on the BET Hip Hop awards, released a controversial mixtape that garnered over 200,000 downloads and was Root Magazine’s number #2 Power Player of 2011, only one spot behind Kirk Franklin.
“Gravity” is Lecrae’s most creative and diverse work to date and could even be considered as his best work. On Lecrae’s previous efforts, the dirty south sound was more prevalent but on “Gravity” you hear north, south, east and west coasts represented to the fullest. Some of the stand out tracks on “Gravity” is the reggae infused “Violence” where Lecrae spits:
4-fever, 9 millimeter
‘Dem a’ want a heater ‘cuz the streets is finna heat up
Six million ways to die; choose 10
And if he don’t die then he probably do ‘em again
From passionate catastrophe, to genocidal blasphemy
No respect for humanity, they resort to insanity
Head bang on the glass, call it window pain
Jumping out the window tryna’ get my frame through the frame
Close range; when he point, I just blank-out
Felt my heart sank when that bang thang rang out
Now you got yo thang out, you take life, you give it
You took his life away, but you gave yours up to system
No wanna listen, no reason for livin’
We bought the lie we can’t be forgiven for all our sinnin’
Killin’ is the religion, service is in a prison
Ignorance got a slave and our name in the mentions
Definitely not your average Gospel or Christian song but songs like this is what makes Lecrae credible and relevant amongst his peers, crossing all boundaries to get his message across by any means necessary. “Mayday”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Lucky Ones”, “Power Trip”, “Buttons”, “Tell the World” and “I Know” are all equally infectious.
With most of the production courtesy of The Watchmen and Heat Academy, Lecrae has delivered his best album to date and will once again shoot straight to the top of the charts and once and for all be solidified as not only one of the greatest christian rappers in the game but one of the best rappers…period!
