“I had a lot of problems growing up,” he told Sound Opinion. NF grew up going to church but the post-divorce war between his parents left him grasping for answers. NF reportedly got engaged this month to fitness guru Bridgette Doremus, whose father committed suicide by taking pills. NF and his reported fiance Bridgette Doremus. He has more than a million subscribers on his YouTube channel. Rapping was his safety valve to release the pain – and it still is.Īlong the way, he’s discovered that legions of millennials also feel the angst of powerlessness. His most watched video “Real” with 18 million views on YouTube sums up his outlook on “real” music (his Twitter handle is been through hell all my life, According to West Michigan-based Local Spins, his music has been featured on Madden NFL 16, ESPN, VH1, Showtime and NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” His concert in London was sold out. When Capitol finally decided to break into the hip hop market, they searched for a long time before they put their money on NF. In 2014, he signed with Capitol Christian Music Group, the label that hosted heavyweights like TobyMac, Chris Tomlin, Amy Grant, Michael W. While he sounds the depths of pain, he points to God. Dre and fellow Michigan native Eminem, but his lyrics are devoid of curse words, misogyny, crime and utter despair. NF is a street poet who lashes out stinging rhymes with 220-volt intensity. At the time, Forbes Magazine expressed shock that a virtual unknown had nudged Tom Petty’s greatest hits album off the top perch. Between concerts, he worked as an electrician to pay bills, according to David Daniels on Rapzilla.īut in October of 2017, NF silenced his detractors and left behind hardships when his third album, Perception, unexpectedly ranked #1 on Billboard 200. He drove an old Volvo that overheated so much he changed his schedule to drive at night. His early flounderings seemed to confirm the admonitions to get a real job. His high school teachers mocked his musical inspirations.
Rap was his escape, first listening to it, then writing it. NF was born in Gladwin, Michigan, in 1991. It means that we’re all great and everything’s perfect. Or they assume that’s what ‘Christian’ means. Some people pretend to be out of that place. “I grew up feeling like pills were more important than I was,” NF says in a YouTube video. He splatters ghouls into his lyrics, and the fiendish formula is resonating with millennials nationwide who want to know if there’s a viable alternative to suicide. If Mandisa tells listeners “you’re an overcomer,” NF reassures them that they’re ok if they haven’t yet reached victory in Christ. Its unfiltered pathos is making people cry across the nation. It is a bone-chilling confessional that leaves no skeleton in the closet. His soul-wrenching dirge “Why would you leave us?” was born of that personal apocalypse. When he was 18, he received a heart-rending call. In high school, NF cut all communication with her because he felt strange and uncomfortable when the court ordered a social worker to monitor his conversations with her.
One of her boyfriends physically abused him and delighted in striking terror in his two sisters. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mom struggled with opioid addiction.Īs a kid, NF didn’t understand why Mom missed events - even his graduation. Nathan Feuerstein’s rage emanates from the festering wounds of a broken home. Admittedly, NF’s hip-hop is “dark and moody.” Don’t look for a Sunday schoolish happy-ever-after in his music, though he is a Christian.
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