{"id":390185,"date":"2026-04-09T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390185\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:07","slug":"lecrae-becomes-the-first-christian-rapper-to-play-nprs-tiny-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390185\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecrae Becomes the First Christian Rapper to Play NPR&#8217;s Tiny Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Lecrae was the featured artist on NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert on Thursday, marking a milestone for Christian hip-hop. His performance is the first time a Christian rapper has been featured in the Tiny Desk Concert series\u2019 18-year history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">\u201cI felt guilty when I mentioned this to the Houston-born emcee, only because it\u2019s taken so long,\u201d said Tiny Desk host and series producer Bobby Carter. \u201cIf we\u2019re putting a spotlight on faith-based hip-hop, we had to start with Lecrae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Carter said what separated Lecrae from the artists who came before him was his refusal to modulate his faith for a mainstream audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">\u201cHis devotion is unapologetic and consistent through the lyrics,\u201d he said, \u201cbut everything else, from the production to delivery, feels real and earned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reach Records founder played eight songs, opening with \u201cComing in Hot\u201d and including \u201cDie for the Party,\u201d a 2024 song written in response to Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cWatch the Party Die,\u201d on which Lamar rapped, \u201cSometimes I wonder what Lecrae would do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch it here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lecrae was the featured artist on NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert on Thursday, marking a milestone for Christian hip-hop.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-390185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}