NF

Brandishing beats like a heavenly weapon, Nate Feuerstein is a Christian hip-hop artist who goes by the stage name NF and writes songs that express his true feelings, even if that means it gets messy.

“I've never been a preacher type artist. I've always been like raw emotion. This is how I deal with things. This is a therapy session.” Nate confides, "I write to beats ... the beats bring out the emotions that I'm feeling. Whatever I'm feeling, that's what I'm going to write. You know if I'm feeling angry about something, I'm going to write a song. It might be kind of angry, but that's what I'm feeling."

Nate believes God gave him music as an outlet for the anger he still deals with from painful life experiences. And, He's honest about those tragedies, like the abuse he experienced as a child at the hands of his mother's boyfriend and his mother's death from a drug overdose in 2009, when he was eighteen. "Some people go to drugs, some people go to music." Nate reflects, "Music has definitely been that for me, like my entire life. It's always been like medicine to me. I started doing it because I was angry. When I first got into rap, I would listen to it all the time. That's all I listened to and it was almost like a relief."

With the song "I'll Keep On (feat. Jeremiah Carlson)" off his first nationally released album Mansion (2015), Nate invites his fans to turn to God for the strength to keep on. Nate has collaborated with musicians like Flame, Britt Nicole, Jeremiah Carlson (Neverclaim) and Fleurie. In 2014, he realized the dream of performing with an artist he's admired for years - fellow Christian rapper, Lecrae.

Nate was born in Gladwin, Michigan on March 30, 1991 and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015.