The title track, which comes on the heels of a technically dazzling “Intro,” makes that metaphor explicit. Actually, the exact opposite is true rather than contrasting things of the spirit with things of the flesh, he turns the dichotomy inside-out, exploring his mental world as if it were a house complete with a haunted basement and numerous skeleton-filled closets. That resonance could lead one to assume the set would find the 23-year-old rapper - the first hip-hop artist to find a home at Capitol CMG - focused on more worldly subject matter than on the previous project. His bars echo a rhetorical question famously posed in the Gospel of Mark: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”įans who have been poring over the EP’s lyric sheet for the past six months and change won’t miss the callback to those lines in the title of NF’s soon-to-drop debut full-length, Mansion. In the opening lines of “Wake Up,” track two off the self-titled 2014 EP that introduced him to a national audience, rising Christian rap star Nate “NF” Feuerstein used the luxurious, but lonely vastness of a massive home as a metaphor for the emptiness of a life without God. “You make a lot of money and you live in a mansionĪnd pretty much got everything you could ever imagine.īut you feel like even though you got everything in the world, you got nothing.”
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