How KevOnStage Navigates Hollywood Without Losing His Soul -

The Deep End With Lecrae

Lecrae

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lecrae sits down with the one-and-only KevOnStage for a raw, hilarious, surprisingly vulnerable conversation about fame, faith, Hollywood, fatherhood, grief, marriage, ambition, and what it means to stay grounded when the whole world has an opinion about your life.

Kev opens up about the early days of his career, why contentment matters more than clout, the pressure of being a public Christian on the internet, and how he learned to stop defending himself to strangers. He talks navigating Hollywood without losing his convictions, dealing with public grief, raising kids while staying sane, and why laughter has become a form of healing after losing his brother.

They unpack the Den of Kings tension with NLE Choppa and Jonathan Majors, the viral Ray J back-smack moment, growing up churchy with no real guidance, and why so many Christians privately break the rules they publicly preach. Kev also shares behind-the-scenes of Churchy, his new show Safe Space, and how marriage, purpose, and heartbreak have shaped the art he makes today.

If you love honest conversation, cultural insight, deep faith reflections, or you just want to laugh until you cry…this one is special.

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0:00.0	Man, I was on heroin, y'all, and it was in my vein. I need to give you something crazy to put at the beginning. And you'd be like, what, Cap? The defense was ruling. There's no comedian in Hollywood that doesn't know who you are. I see you pop up on Dinner Kings. Be careful about going. Ray J's going to smack the crap out of you. Genuinely smacked the Sonic Rings out of my back. He knocked the tears back in. The NLE chopper Jonathan
0:25.0	Matt going smack the crap out of you. Genuinely smacked the sonic rings out of my back. He knocked the tears back in. The NLEC chopper Jonathan Major's moment. It was tense in there. And I was hungry also. Hollywood is crazy and people do be having crazy stuff. I don't. You know about that life. Never saw you at the Denny Party. I wasn't there. Yeah.
0:38.3	I didn't get invited. Holes closed. I say nigger. It's a cab. Unstays, he says, hell. Good morning. Six, seven. They'll say, oh, Kav Luke Warm. Yeah. Kev this, Kev that. If you call me Luke Warm, I'm not a Christian, Luckily for me, you're not the person that gets to decide that.
0:55.3	If you are a Christiankewarm, I'm not a Christian. Luckily for me, you're not the person that gets to decide that.
0:55.3	If you are a Christian walk prevents you from engaging with people who are not Christians,
1:00.0	how strong is your walk?
1:03.6	This is the deep end with La Cui.
1:10.4	Yes, I'm on the road. And when I'm on the road and when I'm on the road, the background looks different.
1:16.8	And today, the background looks different because I'm in L.A.
1:20.9	And I'm in L.A. with an esteemed guest.
1:23.8	He has a collection of independent films and
1:30.3	TV series. He's a director. He is
1:34.5	an entrepreneur, a father. And one of the
1:38.1	funniest dudes that you're going to meet. You know what I'm saying? So I got
1:41.1	nothing other than Kev on stage, man. What's up? Y'all? Gang, gang. Can I say that? Yes. I told saying. So I got none other than Kev on stage, man. What's up?
1:44.2	Y'all, gang, gang.
1:45.4	Can I say that?
1:46.9	Yes.
1:47.4	You know what I'm saying? I told him, when he hit me, I was like, man, I wanted to be on this podcast for the beginning. Which is great. But I didn't want to be like, hey, man, I'd do podcasts or anything like that. We would have definitely done. I know.
1:57.3	I should have just hit you and be like, man, I don't want to come to it.
1:59.3	Because I was in Atlanta, but when I was in Atlanta, you were gone.
2:01.6	That's true.
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