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I'm not a rapper.

I'm not really a rapper!

I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I'm a surprisingly good rapper.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.