Lecrae has made radio history, again! His song, “Messengers Ft. for KING & COUNTRY,” is currently #1 on the Billboard Christian Hot AC/CHR National Airplay Chart, right above Capital Kings’ “Fireblazin.”
“Messengers” is the first hip-hop song to hit #1 on the Billboard Christian Hot AC/CHR Chart. It was sitting at #2 last week and has been steadily moving up week after week. The Anomaly-song has been on the charts for 15 weeks.
In November of 2014, Jam The Hype reported that Lecrae’s “Nuthin” was the first hip-hop song to sit atop the Christian Rock National Airplay Billboard chart. Lecrae is still living up to the title of his seventh studio album, as he is truly an anomaly, who is making an impact in various genres (Christian, Gospel, Rock, R&B, & Hip-Hop, among others).
Congrats, once again, to Crayola for continuing to make history!
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interesting to see the labels that are behind the art is. All the same. No really diversity in sound and competition.
Maybe it depends on your definition of “hip hop” but I wouldn’t say that Lecrae is the first to do this. Toby Mac has rocked the no. 1 spot a couple times (that I know of) and Messengers has a similar sound to that type of music.
As far as true hip-hop in the vast majority of their music, Lecrae is the first. Toby is more pop-influenced now. He was more hip-hop during the dc Talk days than he is now.