# Shai Linne

Shai Linne (born August 21, 1974) is an American East Coast Christian rapper, author, and assistant pastor. Linne has been collaborating with other Christian rap artists and releasing studio albums since 2002. Linne has recorded studio albums under the Lamp Mode Records label.

## Early life

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.

## Career

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 single called "Fal$e Teacher$", in which he criticized prosperity theology, and named false teachers, including Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T. D. 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 as measured by rhyme density. 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.

### Ministry

In 2016 Linne, along with Brian Davis, planted Risen Christ Fellowship in Philadelphia. Linne served as an assistant pastor and elder at Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, having previously been a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia.
Following his two-year tenure at Del Ray Baptist Church, Shai Linne took a step back from touring full-time. In May of 2024, he launched a podcast with Lamp Mode, cohosted with The Ambassador and Ben Otero, called The Halftime Podcast. Later in the year he also served as a guest preacher and speaker at various conferences.

## Personal life

Linne is married to Blair Wingo, and together they have three children.

## Discography
### Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Chr | US Gos | US Ind | US Rap |
| The Solus Christus Project | Released: March 10, 2005 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Atonement | Released: February 12, 2008 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | — | — | — | — | — |
| Storiez | Released: November 18, 2008 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | — | — | 31 | — | — |
| The Attributes of God | Released: November 21, 2011 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | — | 14 | 5 | 32 | 15 |
| Lyrical Theology, Pt. 1: Theology | Released: April 9, 2013 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | 136 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 12 |
| Lyrical Theology, Pt. 2: Doxology | Released: May 20, 2014 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | – | 13 | 6 | 37 | 17 |
| Still Jesus | Released: July 21, 2017 Label: Lamp Mode CD, digital download | — | 16 | — | 25 | — |
| Jesus Kids | Released: September 21, 2018 Label: SDGFella Music digital download | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lyrical Theology, Pt. 3: Sociology | Release: TBA Label: LampMode Digital Download | — | — | — | — | — |