A biography for Andy Mineohasn’t been written yet.
“I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.”
“I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.”
“The Bible is referred to in scripture as the sword of the spirit.”
“Fellas, if you find a good woman, don't be scared of commitment. It is good for you. It causes you to grow up and deal with your selfishness like nothing else.”
“'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted to be able to touch the speakers and feel a clear sense of rhythm.”
“I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.”
“Being a Christian and seeing that white evangelical Christians were primarily the people who put guys like Donald Trump into office made my entire world explode.”
“Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.”
“For some reason, we have completely separated Christians who are rappers, and we have separated, I guess, regular rappers. I feel that we should be able to mingle, enjoy each other's company, and trade ideas.”
“I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.”
“There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.”
“I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.”
“I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.”
“I found Beam when he was 16 years old. He dropped his SoundCloud page onto my Facebook. 'I listened to it and was like, these tracks are actually dope.'”
“Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.”
“A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.”
“'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'”
“I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.”
“Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.”
“People think hip-hop is evil, but it's sometimes the people making hip-hop that are evil. The genre isn't wicked, but the people in it are.”