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About Shai Linne
- Shai Linne (born August 21, 1974) is an American East Coast Christian rapper.
- Linne has been collaborating with other Christian rap artists and releasing studio albums since 2002.
- As of 2005, Linne has recorded studio albums under the Lamp Mode Records label. Linne was an atheist for most of his childhood and dates his conversion to 1999.
- Linne is Reformed in his soteriology (doctrine of salvation), and his 2008 album The Atonement included a song "Mission Accomplished", which defended limited atonement.Linne has collaborated with Lecrae, Trip Lee, Timothy Brindle, Flame, Hazakim, and numerous other Christian rappers.
- He appeared on the 116 Clique album 13 Letters.
- In 2011, Linne was featured on "The Lord is a Warrior", the tenth track from Matt Papa's This Changes Everything.In 2013, Linne released a controversial single called "Fal$e Teacher$", in which he criticized prosperity theology, and named those whom he regards as false teachers, including Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, T.
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- Jakes, Benny Hinn, Paula White, and Joyce Meyer.In addition to being recognized as a pioneer in "lyrical theology", Linne has been touted for the complexity of his rhyme schemes when rapping.
- According to a study performed by a Finnish doctoral candidate, Eric Malmi, Linne placed as the fourth-best rapper alive.
- The study took the lyrics of 94 artists and plugged 10,082 songs into an algorithm that Malmi created to detect assonance rhymes.
- Linne was preceded in the rankings only by Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim and Redrama.Linne is married to Blair, and has a son Sage.
- He is currently an assistant pastor at Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, VA, having previously been a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
- and Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia.In 2016 Linne, along with Brian Davis, planted Risen Christ Fellowship in Philadelphia.
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