Yet I really long for him to share deep and lasting hope with his fans – particularly his hope in Christ. This isn’t a bad thing It is deeply personal. Like Mansion, Therapy Session is very dark and at times quite bleak. I understand why he feels the need to do it, but I don’t think he needs to it is predictable.
In several of his songs, he borders on arrogance and self-praise as he asserts his own abilities as a rapper over others. I would be lying if I said that I thought his music was perfect. The production is minimalistic and always spot on. NF does a great job balancing heavy, emotional themes in songs like Breathe and Oh Lord with aggressive and energetic raps in others like Real and Grindin’ (feat. He has reminded me that, just because we might be a Christian, doesn’t mean our lives are easy, or that we have it all together. This is because he hasn’t finished processing these struggles yet, that’s why he is in a Therapy Session. Never does he end a song with a cliche, or say, “But it’s all good, I’m ok”. One of the things that struck me most about NF’s music is that he does not give easy answers. A song like this is hard to describe – but it’s both beautiful and heartbreaking. NF openly cries as he sings to her, and then talks to her at the end of the song. It is addressed to his mother who died of a drug overdose. The next track, How Could You Leave Us, NF described as the “most vulnerable song I have ever written”. The mood, layering and attention to detail is always exceptional in NF’s music. Just as I expected, the production quality of Therapy Session is superb and fits both the mood and NF’s style perfectly, thanks to Tommee Proffitt, NF’s producer, as well as David Garcia and Jarrod Ingram. You told me you would be there for me…Now you wanna jump ship, leave me here alone, well I’m used to it, everybody else did.” He addresses the song to his ex, stating his frustration, “I guess I don’t know what happened to us, now you got me questioning what trust is. In I Just Wanna Know, NF begins to share how he feels after a long and serious relationship ended. NF shares a story about talking to some fans, “One of them pulled me aside and said ‘We never met but I swear that you know who I am, I been through a lot… I’ve got that Mansion CD on rotate, this is real for me Nate you do not understand’…These kids they come to my shows with tears in their eyes, imagine someone looking at you and saying your music’s the reason that they are alive.”
Title track Therapy Session proves that I’m not the only one that has connected with NF’s music. In the first track, Intro 2, NF continues the absolutely epic and aggressive rap style from Mansion ’s Intro, stating, “Mansion was a glimpse of my life, I let you see what it’s like to be in my head… I let the door open to come in my mansion but I never said it’s a beautiful house”. While Mansion was a metaphor for his mind, the title Therapy Session gives you a heads up of what’s to come. It takes the listener deeper into the issues NF raised on the first album: depression, anger, losing his mother to a drug overdose, regret at the end of a past relationship, and responding to critics of his music. It continues the same themes it gives you raw and honest insight into Nate’s mind, his life, and his personal struggles. Therapy Session, in my mind, is somewhat of a “part two” to Mansion. But Mansion didn’t just impress me it inspired me as an artist, it challenged me in my beliefs, and it gave me strength through some very tough personal circumstances I faced last year. Sometimes I am impressed, sometimes very impressed. Christian hip-hop has been a passion of mine for a while, and doing what I do, I hear a lot of it. I heard his first album Mansion soon after it released last year, and it impacted my life more deeply than any album had in years. Signed with Capitol Music Group, the Michigan-based artist is aggressively open and raw, and hard-hitting in his music. The 25 year-old hip-hop artist Nate Feuerstein, or NF, is unashamedly personal. In fact, it’s hard not to connect with him as a person when listening to his music. Have you ever felt like you knew everything about someone without having ever met them? NF understands this, and gets it a lot.
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