Lecrae Reacts to Kanye West Claiming 'TLOP' Is a Gospel Album

Lecrae poses with his award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for "Messengers" backstage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 8, 2015.

Lecrae is not convinced that his fellow rapper Kanye's West's "The Life Of Pablo" album is a gospel record.

While 38-year-old West has touted his eighth studio record as such, Christian rapper Lecrae, 36, thinks differently.

"I don't know exactly what he meant. I'm thinking he was going for stylistically gospel," Lecrae told the Journal Star. "When people categorize every other genre of music, it's based on style. Jazz is not about the content, it's the style... and gospel has a distinct style."

Still, Lecrae does not believe West's content is gospel centered.

"If he was going for the style, then absolutely, he pulled from gospel music to make his album," the rapper who topped the gospel music charts said. "If he's talking about the content, I think it's another story altogether."

Earlier this year, West explained likening his record to a gospel music album.

"When I was sitting in the studio with Kirk, Kirk Franklin, and we're just going through it, I said this is a gospel album, with a whole lot of cursing on it, but it's still a gospel album," West said in a previous interview on Big Boy Radio. "The gospel according to Ye. It's not exactly what happened in the Bible, but it's this story idea of Mary Magdalene becoming Mary."

The rapper went on to reveal that he believed God, his late mother Donda West and his wife Kim Kardashian's late father Robert Kardashian Sr. were helping him finish his album.

"I'm only doing one percent, two percent of the work and God is doing the rest of the work. My mom… had Teddy Riley change his flight and come back to the studio," West said. "Robert Kardashian is making sure that all the deals is getting done. He's still doing deals for controversial black people from up in heaven."

West also went on to reveal that the album title, "The Life of Pablo" was inspired by the Apostle Paul, whose name translates to Pablo in spanish.