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Beautiful Feet

By Lecrae

573 views Sep 14, 2026 updated Rebel album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Lecrae tells two specific stories rather than making an abstract appeal — Carlos, shot in the head and left blind and deaf until a missionary reached him in a coma ward, and Eric, saved after surviving a gang shooting only to find church culture asking him to leave his neighborhood behind to be taken seriously. Neither story is generic; both are named, dated, placed.

Lecrae's frustration surfaces directly in Eric's case — "ain't nobody in the hood preaching, how will they know?" He isn't arguing against seminary or training; he's arguing against a system that trains people for ministry right out of the exact communities that need them most.

Paul quotes Isaiah's praise for messengers in Romans 10:15 — "how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace" — the line Lecrae builds his whole hook around, and he cites Jesus reading from Isaiah in his hometown synagogue in Luke 4:16-21, announcing good news for the poor before facing rejection there. Lecrae's repeated command — "go, go, go" — treats beautiful feet as feet that actually move toward the hardest places, not just feet that carry good theology.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

Pray y'all listen, it's all a true story

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news


[Verse 2]

Carlos was born in killa Cali

Was walking down an alley,

He caught a bullet in his head

That left him bleeding badly

He lost everything at that moment except for his life

He lost his hearing, lost his movement, even lost his sight


[Verse 3]

He laid there in a coma, but man nobody cared

The Gospel preached in his neighborhood? Nobody dared

But 'Los got up out the coma and was able to hear

A missionary shared the gospel to his open ears


[Verse 4]

He got saved, got trained, got discipled

Back to hood, you could find 'em preaching the Bible

He led a homie to Christ that's from the same hood

Part of a Church plant

Come on now ain't his name good?


[Verse 5]

This is blessing, I'm stressing, but this is not the norm

We need leaders and believers to help carry it on

But who would minister in a sinister part of town

I pray if Jesus is calling you, you would be found


[Chorus]

Go, go, go (run with those beautiful feet)

Go, go, go

You hold the truth that saves so run and shout it to the world

They can't believe in something they ain't never heard

So go, go, go and run with those beautiful feet


[Verse 6]

Eric used to go to Bible study as a kid

He got older, started doing what the hood did

A rival gang caught him slippin' tried to take his life

But then the gun jammed on 'em, so they beat him nice


[Verse 7]

He woke up in the hospital singing Bible songs

Praise God he had a place to learn the Bible from

But then he gets saved and wanna preach Christ

They make him change his whole culture, whole way of life


[Verse 8]

He gotta get him a bachelors, wear a suit and tie

Go to seminary

By then all his boys will die

Jesus came to invade culture outta Nazareth,

And used a couple fisherman who people saw as hazardous


[Verse 9]

The feet are beautiful if only they'd go

Ain't nobody in the hood preaching, how will they know?

See, Eric is better used taught trues in this context

Somebody please plant a church in his projects.


[Chorus]

Go, go, go (run with those beautiful feet)

Go, go, go

You hold the truth that saves so run and shout it to the world

They can't believe in something they ain't never heard

So go, go, go and run with those beautiful feet


[Verse 10]

In Luke 4:16 on down to 21,

Jesus says he's the messiah, says he's the chosen one

But more than that he quotes Isaiah

That shows that our savior targets oppressed, captive, blind, the broke and I'm saying


[Verse 11]

He had a heart for the poor had a heart for the low

And 1st John 2:6 is the way we should go

In Deuteronomy even though they under the law

The tithes every third year the poor get em all


[Verse 12]

I ain't saying you wrong if you live in burbs

I'm saying turn your attention to the hood, we hurting

Man if you ain't burdened please pick up your word an

Tho this world is going down while we here we can serve him


[Verse 13]

We bring this to the streets because we knew the streets

I pray that more would be burdened to have beautiful feet

You never knew the streets but truth is what you preach

I pray to God you'd be burdened to have beautiful feet.


[Chorus]

Go, go, go (run with those beautiful feet)

Go, go, go

You hold the truth that saves so run and shout it to the world

They can't believe in something they ain't never heard

Go, go, go and run with those beautiful feet

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