Wow, 20yrs. I been following Lecrae and 116 music for along time. One of reasons why I started going to church on a regular basis. Christian hip-hop. Then eventually gave my life to the lord

Reach Records docu-series needs to happen like right now!

Started listening to Lecrae from 2007 when I was in the university and 116 Clique inspired me and my hommies to form CIA clique (CIA = Christ I Abide) taking inspiration from John 15:4...we were at your concert in Nigeria and it was so unreal. Thank God for the impact of what you guys did and keep doing.

The respect I have for Lecrae and now Ben just went to another level. They put in the work letting God use them then and now. 🙌🏾

“K-A-A” “YOU KNOW!” If you know, you know. 🙌🏾

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phillippians 4:13

This was really good!!!! We need Part 2 and this is my first time knowing/hearing about Ben washer like what??? Ben just looks so humble.

What a great interview, the last five minutes might have been my favorite. “Plant the seed and water it, it will grow, but you’re not promised the biggest orchard” GREAT WORD🙏

Thank you guys for doing this. I’ve always wanted to hear from Ben, so it’s cool that y’all dragged him in 😂. Plus, hearing some of the origins of this thing really shows how God is still using you guys in ways unimaginable!

I am happy that lecrae and all 116 crew is back to the fondation!!! FOLLOWER OF CHRIST! This make me very happy! It’s been 3years I did listening anymore lecrae and 116 crew! Thanks GoD our prayers been listening! I hope you Guys gonna rap like TOM MACDONALD this man come form he’ll save Jesus Him! And he is really stand seriously for faith! Same for Dax Lecrae and 116 crew we the people and the young generation need guide in this world of crazy woke cultures! I am 36! My son is 14 he will impacted by you guys as I been on my 18and 20 … Please God JESUS look after them make them to be faithful before everything

IT IS WORTH CELEBRATING. As someone who's been apart of the movement since 2006. It's worth it. I bought After The Music Stops in bulk & sold them at cost or gave them away at my high school. Wore the 1•1•Six fitted for my year book picture. We would pack my Mom's SUV and take old high school friends to the concerts. Took Youth Groups through the curriculum & put them on to the music/concerts etc. I've watched this thing grow in the culture and in my homies and I. We're pastors now. Started a church in 2016. We started a conference and concert in 2017. Brought in names from CHH and have done Soo much more in the past 2 years. 1•1•Six & Reach Records played a big part in that. Not as locked in with Reach as I used to be but we had our time. Still Unashamed though. I gotta Celebrate 🥂

I'm so happy that this info is getting out! To all the bystanders questioning his authenticity and trying to micromanage his faith, send them this video!!!

Yes, yes YES!!! "All I need is another gang member." Bro, that was tough!!! Sheeeeeeeee to the 10th power!!!

Nice conversation.❤ It's nice to finally hear from Ben Washer.

Timeless

I had a random thought yesterday about Ben washer and how I grew up on reach records, always heard his name but never heard anything from him. Really cool to finally hear him and his heart behind it all, and his and lecrae story! Love it!

After The Music Stops onwards shaped my worldview through my teenage years. You guys have been an incredibly influential part of my life. Thanks for sharing the history.

20 years! That’s huge!! Congratulations to you legends!

Congrats to Reach Records ! hoping it'll go further

Thank you for this! Nothing better than listening to Godly blackmen talking and sharing dreams and putting feet to their dreams. The title caught my attention "116 Life" ... I had no idea. What a nugget (something that makes you smile)! I am 59 years old and still enjoy good beats, and dancing w/ Godly messages. I enjoy watching God show out when we let Him lead. There are no boundaries. Thank you for sharing the wisdom and leadership of Reach Records! I pray God continues to bless!

Had to go back and visit this one day I want a Kingdom record label and creative hub that will build leaders/artists in creative culture that will stand for Jesus and reach a generation .....it's too dope to hear there up bringing and how everything got started

Need to do Kieran the light!!! He’s the truth🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Many of these stories bring me back to my senior year of high school, early years of college, and my first born son. Good, good memories. So glad to hear the origins of this movement. Also this explains some of the changes and growth of the guys. To God be the glory.

#PraiseYahuah 🙌🏻👆🏻 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Matthew 6:33

Marcus Hollinger has a good ear. I see why he is where he is in Reach Records.

I found Lecrae music back in like 2018 I was looking to changing my music from secular to CHH and I've been 116 every since I love reach records

AMEN!!!

FINALLY someone got Ben to talk 😂 😂 😂. #Unashamed4Ever. Happy 20th famo

Hopefully before the end of the year I’m signed to reach records 👀

These guys were really good interviewers for just being the first episode. Asked the questions I was thinking of but didn't interrupt them or talk too much. Keep it up

Ben is great guy God bless him more, if you still doubt Crae authenticity after watching this then you're not sincere mad respect

Yes 20 years longevity in the game such a Huge success!! I felt the ministry part of the early start just learning about God and your faith, 116 life stands for me (unashamed and never give up on ya dreams ) This gone be my home one day! Claiming it ya dig 🙌 💯

Man - love hearing all this - remember seeing Crae and Tedashii in Marion Indiana right after T-Dot's CD came out and all us christian college kids getting hyped back in 2005/2006 - still love the face people give me when they say i listen to christian and faith filled hip hop daily

Thank you! 😎👑

Hearing Lecrae while playing Spider-Man game was dope! Lecrae still impacting culture

This is gold! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I think it would be dope if some of Lecrae early works would be remixed by modern producers. It would be dope. Great podcast.

Happy 20th Reach Records! You guys have been an inspiration of how Christians can interact with faith, culture, and art for a long time! I think God has revealed lessons for us all through each step of the journey, and I’m forever grateful for how Reach and Lecrae have contributed to my own journey as a Christian and a creative.

Bro this was BIG!!!! Thank you all so much. It’s sometimes good to put a face with the name. Was I the only one that also took that trip down memory lane as they shared their timeline? What a blessing fellas!

Really enjoyed this fellas, looking forward to the next one

Loved this interview! I remember those super early days, emailing Ben and trying to do design work for them. Crazy to think it's been 20 YEARS!!!!

This will be great as a podcast!!! Can’t wait for more.

I love this!!

love this!!! they're almost at 1 Millions subs & glad I can be part of this blessed journey

This has a great interview guys! Thank you for all the wonderful work. Always been a Lecrae fan. We appreciate you!

I appreciate this great conversation 🙏🏼 lots of history and gems here

I wouldn't say Pioneers cause I was listening to chh in 93 lol I will say that they took it more global. This was a dope interview. Congrats on all the success that God has blessed you all with. Keep pushin fam.

I wonder why they didn't touch on their early relationship with Cross Movement Records. They played a huge roll in their early stages.

This was so dope!!! I too was flipped upside by the Rehab album and Between 2 Worlds album back in 2010-11ish and I’m so happy to see how this has grown. Looking back it brings up so many memories of each album. I remember a dude who wasn’t even believer at least at that time showing me the Anomaly Album and thinking he’s found a way to infiltrate everyone!!!! This podcast has gained a new listener today.

This is fire 🔥 116 tell da grave!!!!

LETS GO!

Great content. Been a fan since 2006 or so and I am so happy to see the growth and fulfillment of the mission

More episodes needed! WE ARE DEMANDING!

Shout out to Lecrae , Ben, and Chris for the ministry of Reach Recorders.

you need to do a 116 anniversary show..to be further a yearly 116 fest❤

enjoyed this so much🎉🙌🙌

More of this🔥🔥🔥🔥

This was just DOPE!

Bro Marcus hollinger killed the interview questions man!! Dude is so talented

116 was my whole childhood

bring all the OGs Flame this’l amabassador da truth and all people involved since day one..cool pod kudos

This conversation was dope. Very inspiring.

🔥🔥🔥

This was beautiful

Need that part 2 asap!

Reach Records.

Really good interview!

We need a movie. Straight out of Compton style

“He was despised and rejected- a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53:3-12‬ ‭NLT‬‬ This was written around 700 years before Jesus came into the earth, yet it describes His life perfectly. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 God loves you so much and showed that by sending His Son to die for us so that we may inherit eternal life. We deserve hell but He gave us heaven through faith in Jesus. He took the punishment we deserved and by putting our faith in Him we can be saved. The Key To Eternal Life: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8CUqZCF2c-xm5s.html For evidence for Christianity and answered questions, check out kzfaq.info and kzfaq.info because if Jesus really rose from the dead it is the most important fact ever!

I didn’t hear much about Lamp Mode,…but this was good.

dope.

👏 ❤ 💖

I love this content… will you guys be able to put it on Podcast and Spotify platform? So I could watch offline

#SHOUT OUT To AMBASSADOR (#A.M.B.A.S.S.A.D.O.R.) (#AMBA.S.S.A.D.O.R.) (#TCM/CMR! ;) :) SIGNING 'CRAE's BIBLE with ROMANS 1:16 UNASHAMED of the GOSPEL! ;) :)

Ben yall should sign a South African and UK rapper too... I think that could a good global footprint direction.

I thought for a moment this guy Ben was Paul washer’s son haha

Is Lecrae the one who affirmed his gay brothers lifestyle? I need to know because I believe there's an interview regarding it.

Is The CO owner Mr. Washer related to Paul washer? Asking for context

Dude look like Jalen Hurts

Great interview but these brothers gotta ask questions without giving an essay. By the time you land, you don ask 20 questions and I don’t even know what you asking

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Why don’t they ever talk about Reach’s partnership with Cross Movement Records and the fact that Lecrae was once signed to them and how they re-released Real Talk then After The Music Stops, then Rebel? I don’t understand why they always leave that part out and the influence of The Ambassador on Lecrae’s life and music every time they tell their story.

Being 43 yrs old, i got to see and experience this real time.. as a CHH artist, I brushed elbows with the Thi'sl, J.R. Jason and to a much lesser extent Flame! I commend Lecrae, Ben, and Reach Records, but I also feel Lecrae is re-imagining things and leaving out a lot of relevant information.. the Millennial vs Gen X line was not on point. Lecrae is not a Millennial, lol... Lacrae is 43, making hin a Gen X... he was signed to Cross Movement and was label mates with Ambassador, Da Truth and Phanatik, etc.. there's a lot he's excluding in his recount of the past

Lecrae u look different, feels like another you.

"K A A, U KNOW, WHAT'S UP Y'ALL, IT'S YO'MAN LECRAE (#11SIX UNASHAMED!;):)/"VISION", I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE & PRESENT TO OTHERS MY MAN TEDASHII (#11SIX UNASHAMED! ;) :), WE CALL HIM T-DOT (#11SIX! ;) :) HAHA..."... " KAA, MY SECOND HOME BABY"

USE ME IM TRYING TO JOIN ONLY THE BEST GODLY MOVEMENT TO BRING BACK GODS PPL

Why does he say everything in shame or quotations?

permission to punch a " crae is a Sell out" person.... sorry but yeah

Is reach records really putting Christian music out there there’s a lot of music yall put out there that’s not Christian!

First dude keeps speaking, not pausing after full statements are made. Slow down my G you said good things but allow statements you make to sink in. Also no need to keep saying a word and then going back and saying a synonym of the same word for example when you said: “Let’s go back to the beginning or the origin if you will”. Beginning and origin have the same meaning my guy. You also said Lecrae alluded or hinted at. You did this a few times but just an observation. I know that pattern bc I’ve been guilty of it myself wanting to pick the best word to accurately articulate what I want to say but stick with one word and keep going. It comes off more confident and professional.

After afrobeat…the next genre to go global is SOCA MUSIC GENRE because it’s close to afrobeat yet a blend of cultural influences, so Caribbean Christian Soca artistes (eg Positive from Trinidad) will be worth looking at guys from Concert promoter of Open House Concert #openhousetrinidad @tedashii @lecraevevo @reachrecords