CC4

A brief interruption of praise frames “CC4”: “Excuse me, I have revival / Let me praise my God.” From there Lecrae turns to the grief of “R.I.P. Breonna Taylor” and “George Floyd,” and to believers who “don’t rep the Kingdom,” admitting he will “prolly gon’ lose more shows and money” for saying so.

The verses go after image-conscious Christianity: worship guitars, “chords at the end of the message” timed to tug at the heart, kids sponsored “just to show off what you did,” then a luxury car driven past the hood to the stadium. The charge is that people live “like Jesus ain’t risen, like we ain’t forgiven,” and bang on each other “like we ain’t been covered in blood.” Confused outsiders “pray to the universe,” he says, because “our life is how people view the church.”

He does not walk away from the church: “I still believe in the church, but it’s gon’ take us to put in some work.” The refrain “I have revival, leave me alone” and the closing prayer, “Show Your power, let it come / For Your Kingdom and Your honor,” place the hope in God’s Spirit rather than in a better performance.