When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
I'm a kid from Boston.
While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.
Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.
I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.
I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.
First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
Land is not merely soil.
I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.
I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
I never spoke to this many Yankees at one time.
I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.
I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
