Andy Mineo is working towards accomplishing something most of us probably don't want to.

"What I've been trying to learn is how to embrace discomfort," the rapper told MTV News recently.

Given that, it's only right that his new album, out on Friday (Sept. 18), is called Uncomfortable.

"One of the quotes that stuck out to me when I was making this album was, 'Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed,'" he said. "You've heard it before: 'I just wanna live a comfortable life.' But those ideas, to me, don't push me to grow. This album for me, too, is about embracing the discomfort of growth."

Andy's been growing a lot since his last album, 2013's Heroes For Sale. He recently got married, started a church in his neighborhood and is preparing for a headlining tour next month -- and that's all in addition to the growth that any normal (meaning, non-famous rapper) 27-year-old goes through.

"I get boxed in a lot -- put into particular categories -- and I think people want me to stay there," he said, referencing the ways in which his Christian faith has played into his narrative and rise as a rapper to this point. "I never wanted to be there in the first place."

But he understands his position, and embraces it -- just like the discomfort.

"Do I feel the responsibility to speak for the Christian community at large? I think that just happens by default," he added. I"'m standing for the ideas of a lot of people behind me, so there's a lot of pressure to that. Like, when I put out that record 'Uncomfortable,' there's a lot of racy things in there. I thought it was going to be a much worse situation than it was. But people by and large seem to appreciate the record."

The song he's referencing, which is the album's title track, is representative of that place in which he finds himself. "I apologize for Christians with pickets sayin', 'God hates f-gs'/ I promise Jesus wouldn't act like that," he raps at one point.

"I could have made an album full of stuff that I know works. I could have gone to the Top 40 and picked those records and duplicated them and made them my own thing. I wanted to push the limits and the boundaries for myself as a creative and try to find a new sound. I know that innovation comes at the cost of failure, so if you're not willing to take any risks and fail and try new things, then there's not going to be innovation."