50 Fun Facts About NF

Which rapper does NF call his prime influence, saying that at one point he listened to nothing else?

Eminem is the one, though for style and instrumentation NF also credits two singers rather than fellow rappers.

NF wrote his 2017 hit "Let You Down" about not wanting to disappoint which family member?

His father raised him after his parents divorced, and the song was the first time NF had spoken publicly about their relationship.

As a kid in Michigan, the rapper NF made his early recordings using which unlikely device?

A karaoke machine did the job: he played the instrumental into one microphone and rapped into the other.

On NF's 2015 album Mansion, the house of the title track and the cover art stands for what?

His mind is the house, he explained in a promo video for the album, and every song on it is a different emotion and a different story.

Whose album The Big Day did NF's The Search beat to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2019?

Chance the Rapper was forecast to win the week, but NF finished 22,000 units ahead despite his rival's advantage in streaming.

Which country singer's One Thing at a Time kept NF's 2023 album Hope from debuting at No. 1?

Morgan Wallen held the top spot, so Hope entered at number two, even though 80,500 of its 123,000 first-week units were full album sales.

Which label has NF rejected, saying he simply writes about things he is "actually dealing with"?

Christian rapper is a tag he denies, even though he came up through gospel hip-hop. He says a listener does not need to share his faith to relate to his songs.

In NF's "Motto" video, what does he chomp with his feet up at a mock industry ceremony?

Popcorn goes down while everyone around him is in formal dress, and the clip ends with security dragging him out of the room.

Which rapper guests on NF's "Who I Was", rapping about the end of a high-profile relationship?

MGK raps over a stripped-down beat about losing friends and cutting off toxic influences, while NF switches between a soft and a harsh delivery.

NF, the rapper behind the chart-topping album Perception, stylizes his stage name in which way?

With a backwards N is how the name is styled, so it reads as ИF. The two letters are simply the initials of his real name.

Which WWE show adopted NF's "The Search" as its opening theme in October 2020?

Monday Night Raw opened with the track for just over a year. On the song itself NF raps 777 words in just over four minutes.

On "Intro III", the track that opens Perception, NF describes trying to conquer which emotion?

Fear cannot be fully destroyed, he concludes by the end of the track, because it sits at the root of most of his problems.

In NF's song "Wake Up", people who cannot appreciate the good in life are said to be in what?

A coma is his image for sleepwalking through life. The song appeared on his self-titled 2014 EP and was re-released on Mansion the following year.

In NF's video for "Why", he rides in a shopping cart holding which symbol of The Search era?

Black balloons stand for his thoughts across The Search era, and the same props return in the video for the album's title track.

Which rapper did NF join on tour in mid-2018, alongside Kyle, after the success of Perception?

Logic toured with him that summer, and NF's own style of rapping has been compared to his.

Which condition was NF diagnosed with after checking into therapy following his Perception tour?

OCD made him fixate on songs he could never finish to his satisfaction, which he says is why the album Hope took over a year and a half.

NF's single "Paid My Dues", released with its video in December 2019, takes aim at which group?

Critics and their hypocrisy are the target: he questions their right to an opinion on his music, then turns the criticism back on them.

Which NF single about a failed romance followed "Let You Down" onto mainstream radio in 2018?

Lie was only his second mainstream radio release, and it went on to peak at No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Which NF single's video shows him as a garbage man, a janitor and a fast-food worker?

When I Grow Up opens with children naming their dream jobs; the young NF says he will be a rapper, then works those shifts first.

Which rapper guests on "Careful" from NF's Hope and joined the album's tour as special guest?

Cordae is one of only two guests on Hope, and the world tour he joined in support of the album ran to 47 stops.

What is heard in the background of NF's "How Could You Leave Us" as he addresses his late mother?

His own sobbing runs under the vocal, and in the outro he talks to her through tears. She died of an opioid overdose in 2009.

Which singer guests on NF's 2015 album Mansion alongside Jeremiah Carlson and Britt Nicole?

Fleurie is one of three guest singers on the record, which reached number 62 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified gold.

In NF's video for "Why", his face paint has been compared to that of which character?

The Joker is the comparison the makeup invites; the clip is set in a dark, abandoned storefront and ends with him sitting alone.

In the five-second clip that teased NF's return to music in 2025, what was he wearing over his head?

A sack hid his face in the post that ended a two-year hiatus, and teasers for the new songs drew more than 22 million views.

In which state's snowy mountains was the video for NF's 2021 single "Lost" filmed?

Colorado supplied the peaks: NF and his guest wander through the snow trying to find their way, fitting a song about finding oneself.

Which Gospel Music Association prizes named NF's Therapy Session Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year?

Dove Awards went to NF two years running: the album won in 2016, and one of its tracks took Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song in 2017.

Which battle royale video game set the trailer for season three to NF's single "The Search"?

Apex Legends ran it under the season three trailer, and the song later became a playable track in Fortnite's music mode, Fortnite Festival.

Which pop singer-songwriter is one of only two guests on NF's album Hope, singing on track eight?

Julia Michaels provides the album's only sung guest spot; the other visitor is a rapper, who appears five tracks earlier.

Which singer gives the only guest performance on NF's chart-topping 2017 album Perception?

Ruelle is the lone outside voice on the record, which marked his move away from gospel hip-hop toward a mainstream audience.

NF co-directs his own music videos under his real name, so which first name does the "N" stand for?

Nathan is the name on the directing and producing credit he shares with Patrick Tohill for the "Let You Down" video.

In the "Let You Down" video, an older man watches NF drown, sit in a burning car and end up where?

In a coffin, lying in a freshly dug grave, NF finally gets a reaction: the man who twice stood by and watched falls to his knees.

Which NBC police drama used NF's "Wake Up" in a commercial the year before Mansion came out?

Chicago P.D. ran the spot in August 2014, the month his self-titled EP came out. ESPN later played the same song during its weeknight game coverage.

Which sports video game series put NF's Mansion single "Intro" on the soundtrack of its 2015 release?

Madden NFL 16 carried the track, while ESPN played another Mansion song, "Turn the Music Up", during its coverage of that year's NFL Draft.

Which producer worked on every NF album from Mansion to The Search?

Tommee Profitt met NF in Michigan when one was starting out as a rapper and the other was giving up performing to become a producer.

Which rapper scored his first Billboard Hot 100 entry as the guest on NF's 2021 track "Lost"?

Hopsin was first teased as a collaborator in July 2020, when NF posted a photo of the two of them standing in a snowy landscape.

Which English singer handles the chorus of "Sorry", a promotional single from NF's 2025 EP?

James Arthur sings the hook on a track about accountability and broken promises, released one day ahead of the EP itself.

Which NF single's video follows a couple's daughter from the delivery room to her wedding day?

If You Want Love tells those who seek love to be emotionally invested in their partner. It went to radio as the fifth single from Perception.

NF's 2021 project Clouds, home of the single "Paid My Dues", is billed as what kind of release?

A mixtape is how he labelled it, right there in the bracketed title, and it reached number three on the Billboard 200.

The video for NF's 2023 single "Hope" opens with him dressed in white and stranded on what?

A wooden raft carries him to an island, where a darkly dressed double shoves him through the roof of an abandoned mansion.

Which British singer has NF credited, alongside Ed Sheeran, as an influence on his sound?

Adele and Sheeran shaped his style and instrumentation, he says, even though a single rapper was once the only artist he played.

NF released "Chasing (Demo)" in 2020 after being "blown away" by whose cover of the unfinished song?

A teenage fan from Australia, 15-year-old Mikayla Sippel, posted her own version of a clip he had shared, and her vocals are on the official release.

NF's single "Time", about holding on to his marriage, opens with a passage for which instrument?

Violin sets the mood before he reflects on the misunderstandings and tensions with his wife and says he is willing to change, given time.

Which Therapy Session track won NF a Gospel Music Association prize for Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song?

Oh Lord won in 2017, a year after another single from the album, "I Just Wanna Know", had been nominated in the same category and lost.

Which Perception track has a video of NF and a hundred fans inside the cell from the album cover?

Outcast is his statement that he has no wish to fit in with anyone in rap, and its video came out the day the album was released.

Which NF single's video held the clues that let fans guess the album title Perception early?

Green Lights followed "Outro" as a single from the album, which went on to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Which American figure skater performed to an NF song at the 2026 Winter Olympics exhibition gala?

Ilia Malinin skated to the title track of NF's 2025 EP, which had come out only three months before the Games.

The rapper NF performs under his initials, so which surname does the "F" stand for?

Feuerstein is the name on his writing credits, and his independent debut album came out under his full name before he shortened it.

Which single from NF's album Hope has a video about a girl neglected by her arguing parents?

Happy came out with its video on the same day as the album, and has NF asking whether he is even capable of the feeling.

Which singer-songwriter is the sole guest on NF's album The Search, appearing on the track "Only"?

Sasha Sloan co-wrote the song as well as singing on it, the one outside voice on the whole album.

NF's 2019 single "The Search" describes fame and commercial success taking a toll on what?

His health is the price of success in the song, which has a 30-second intro and never reaches a chorus.