“If it wasn’t the artist themselves, it was someone that they were close to that was struggling in this particular area, which helped us realize, this is not just something that we’re dealing with,” said Lecrae. In conversations with other artists, Lecrae began to realize that a lot of his friends on the scene felt all kinds of ways about the disruption of their faith practices. “So that’s what it’s done for me - it’s just really made my day-to-day actions a lot more sincere.” “I think a lot of times we were so reliant on a Sunday morning that we needed to take some responsibility on our day day-to-day,” he said. Without regular church services, Lecrae described feeling a sense of needing to bring church home. Lecrae, founder of Christian hip-hop label Reach Records, and his signee 1K Phew decided to put their feelings on this issue into a collaborative album, “No Church in a While.” “City Lights” producer Summer Evans spoke with Lecrae about this new album, getting an inside look behind the process and the sentiments that inspired it. Though some congregations managed to move services onto online platforms during lockdown periods, the lack of a space to gather in faith was felt widely - especially by two Atlanta rappers. Since the pandemic, many have noticed a trend in lowered attendance in churches.

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