Rebel is smart and passionate, but more importantly it doesn’t condescend to its target audience. Anomaly is the seventh studio album by American Christian hip hop artist Lecrae, released on September 9, 2014, through Reach Records.The album features appearances from Crystal Nicole, Kari Jobe, and For King & Country, along with label-mate Andy Mineo.
Unlike most Christian albums, the music here is as authentic and heavy as anything on Young Jeezy’s last album, only rather than describe life in the trap house, Lecrae rhymes about life in the Lord’s house: “Already dead so forget my flesh,” he says in “Go Hard.” “I done been crossed over see the full court press / I’m a full court mess if the Lord don’t use me / Running from my trials thinkin’ everything’s groovy.” Rather than simply rattle off Bible verses, Lecrae analyzes stories from his personal experience, and shows the insecurity and unhappiness that lie just underneath the material excesses and self-pleasure of modern hip-hop culture. In 2008, Christian-Rapper Lecrae, released his third album titled Rebel.The main message, Lecrae is trying to convey in Rebel, is to rebel against the culture and not follow the ways of this. He’s also found himself at home on the charts with albums like Rebel, Rehab, Rehab: The Overdose, Gravity, and Anomaly the last of which earned Lecrae his first number one on the Billboard 200 thanks to an impressive 88,000 album equivalent. He is the president, co-owner and co-founder of the independent record label Reach Records (4), and the co-founder and president of the non-profit organization ReachLife Ministries. Rebel does a surprisingly powerful job of bridging those two seemingly incompatible worlds. Prior to Restoration, Lecrae has delivered classic bodies of work since the turn of the century. Lecrae (born October 9, 1979, Houston, Texas, USA) is an American Christian hip hop artist, songwriter, record producer and actor. As a devoted Christian, Lecrae’s primary goal is to glorify Jesus Christ, but as a believer in the power of Southern hip-hop, he wants to make the music that appeals to himself and his generation.