Lecrae's DNA Test Result Reveals He's a Nigerian
Lecrae Devaughn Moore (born Oct. 9, 1979 in Houston Texas, USA) is an American Christian hip hop recording artist, songwriter, music executive, actor, and entrepreneur. With 10 studio album tied to his name, Lecrae is arguably the best Christian hip hop artist with different online platform tagging him the best Gospel artist.
Gospel rapper Lecrae had a pretty rough childhood. Born and raised by his single mother, he never got to meet his father who was a drug addict. Later on, he moved in with his grandmother who was a Christian. He has stated that he would go to church with his Christian grandmother, but considered it for "older people" and said it "wasn't for me."
At a very tender age, a female baby sitter sexually molested him, an incident which Lecrae believes distorted his view of sexuality, influencing his later promiscuous lifestyle.
Experiencing abuse and neglect, Lecrae found comfort in rapping. He would sneak to turn on the TV late at night to watch rap videos. This was because his grandmother would not approve of hip hop.
Exposed to gangsterism, Lecrae at age 16 started taking drugs, fighting, was arrested for stealing in high school and was convicted. CNN reported that Lecrae became a drug dealer and used the Bible that his grandmother gave him as a good luck charm. After being arrested for drug possession, the officer saw the Bible and let Lecrae go on a promise that he would agree to live by it.
Encouraged by his concerned mother to read his Bible, Lecrae said that "I remember ripping the pages out of the Bible and throwing it on the floor. I don't want this Bible. I couldn't wrap my hands around this being true or real." He began to drink and smoke more and look for more women "as the emptiness became more profound." At age 17, his personal, financial, and relationship troubles convinced him that he was at a "dead end." Wanting to do what he considered the mature thing, through the influence of his grandmother, he desired to start attending church.
Getting to Church, Lecrae found out a girl in his high school fellowships there. She invited Lecrae to a Bible study, where he met Darragh, his future wife. Lecrae was surprised to find that the members of the Bible study "were just people like me. They read the same books and listened to the same music. Their character was just different. They were loving and that's really what drew me in." Lecrae says that it was at age 19 that he finally decided to live for God, though, “it wasn't overnight" and he "spent a lot of time making bad decisions."
Lecrae attended a conference after being invited by a friend, though Lecrae admits that his interest was to meet girls and experience the big city. When he arrived at the conference, Lecrae was awed by the performance of the Christian hip-hop group The Cross Movement. Lecrae says that he saw "guys who had been shot from being in gangs, girls who were extremely promiscuous in the past, I see rappers, dancers and singers; I see people who came from the same background I came from, and they still embodied who they were culturally, but they were all in love with Jesus and I had never seen that before." After hearing Pastor James White of Christ Our King Community Church speak on how Christians are bought with a price and the suffering that Jesus underwent in the Crucifixion, Lecrae says that he remembers articulating "God get me out of this, don't kill me; do whatever you have to do to get me out of this, just don't kill me." Later, Lecrae was driving on a highway when he turned too quickly and his car went into a roll. He had no seatbelt and the roof and windshield of the car caved in, his glasses were molded into the frame of the car, but he survived completely uninjured. Lecrae cites this incident as the one which convinced him to commit his life to Christ. Lecrae went back to school at the University of North Texas. He started volunteering and performing at a juvenile detention center, and the reception he received convinced him that offering "hope and encouragement" through music was what he wanted to do. However, Lecrae still struggled in his faith − as revealed in "Good, Bad, Ugly", in 2002 he impregnated a then-girlfriend. Rather than risk scandal, he and his girlfriend had the baby aborted, a decision he says he now deeply regrets.
Theologically, Lecrae cites Tommy Nelson, John MacArthur, and John Piper, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, and Francis Schaeffer as early influences on his Christian faith, the last of whom Lecrae calls his “personal hero”.
Recently, Lecrae on his social media platforms revealed that he had gone for DNA testing to trace his root, the result , of which, proved that he's of Nigerian descent. This revelation was greeted positively by so many on his Instagram handle, with so many Nigerians bidding him to come home. On his Instagram post, he wrote, “As soon as the world opens up, I'm coming home”. This was followed up with a Nigeria flag which makes us believe that he'll be paying homage to Nigeria very soon... Superb!
Married to Darragh, Lecrae, his wife and three children currently resides in Atlanta, and on August 14, 2020, Lecrae posted a video on his YouTube channel that includes footage of him re-connecting with his long-absent father who now resides in San Diego.
The life of Lecrae reveals the saving power of God and the gospel. God can make meaning out of our lives irrespective of how messy it is. Come to Him and He will take you as you're. Accept the life of Christ today, for without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5).
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