Artist

Lecrae

Wins

4

Nominations

11

Category

Rap

Biography

"There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together."

  • Born Lecrae Devaughn Moore on Oct. 9, 1979, in Houston, Texas
  • The Christian rap artist’s third solo album, 2008's Rebel, became the first Christian hip-hop album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Gospel chart. An appearance on the 2011 BET Hip-Hop Awards brought him to mainstream attention.
  • Lecrae's 2012 album Gravity won Best Gospel Album at the 55th GRAMMY Awards, marking the first time a hip-hop artist won the honors in that category.  
  • Did you know? Lecrae's seventh album, Anomaly, was the first album to top both the Billboard 200 and Gospel charts simultaneously. It debuted at No. 1 on both charts in 2014.
  • Lecrae was a featured participant in GRAMMY Career Day, an initiative of GRAMMY in the Schools, at USC Thornton School of Music in February 2011 
  • Lecrae partnered with NBA all-star Dwyane Wade and Joshua DuBois in 2013 for the multimedia initiative This Is Fatherhood as part of the Obama administration's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative.

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Lecrae

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

    Headphones. Lecrae, Killer Mike, T.I., BEAM, Uforo Ebong

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

    Reconstruction. Lecrae

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

    Church Clothes 4. Lecrae

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

    Your Power. Lecrae, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Alexandria Dollar, Jordan Dollar, Antonio Gardner, Michael Girgenti, Lasanna Harris, David Hein, Deandre Hunter, Dylan Hyde, Patrick Darius Mix Jr., Christian Louisana, Justin Pelham, Jeffrey Lawrence Shannon, Allen Swoope

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

    Sunday Morning. Lecrae, Kirk Franklin, Denisia Andrews, Terry Jones, Saint Bodhi, Rafael X. Brown, Brittany Coney, Lasanna Harris, Sham Joseph, Stuart Lowery, Nathanael Saint-Fleur

  • Best Gospel Performance/Song

    Come Together. Rodney Jerkins, Jazz Nixon, LaShawn Daniels, Lecrae

  • Best Gospel Performance/Song

    Help. Erica Campbell, Lecrae, Warryn Campbell, Hasben Jones, Harold Lilly, Aaron Sledge

  • Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

    Messengers. Torrance Esmond, Ran Jackson, Ricky Jackson, Kenneth Chris Mackey, Joseph Prielozny, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone

  • Best Rap Performance

    All I Need Is You. Lecrae

  • Best Gospel Album

    Gravity. Lecrae

  • Rock Or Rap Gospel Album

    Rehab. Lecrae

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