When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
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 a kid from Boston.
I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'
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.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
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 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.
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.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.
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.
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
Land is not merely soil.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
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.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.
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 think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.
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.
