Just because someone is successful or good at something, it doesn't mean it's what they want to be doing.

Take, for example, Mykki Blanco.

After putting out a handful of mixtapes and EPs, the rapper has decided to leave the music behind -- to become an investigative journalist.

"I have decided to focus and pursue a passion I've had for quite some time now which is investigative journalism, particularly focusing on documenting and writing about homosexuality and gay culture in remote corners of the world," Blanco wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

"My longterm goals would eventually see myself enrolled in school in a sociology and gender studies program while also focusing on writing and beginning to work academically. I've taken away much from the lectures & discussions I've given so far in my career and would hope to continue to contribute and engage in dialogues focusing on gender/sexuality and its role in the entertainment/music industry's while also studying and fulfilling my desire to follow my new interests."

Blacno said that the immediate plan, beginning in May, is to head to Nepal to study homosexuality and LGBT rights there.

Still, it doesn't sound like this is the end of Mykki Blanco as we know it: "I would like to ideally become an accredited journalist working and writing professionally and I think keeping my platform as Mykki Blanco as a hub not just for entertainment but for all of these points will create an organic think tank those that follow me can benefit from."

"I must be honest, writing words that rhyme over beats made by other people mostly male no longer interests me and I've felt this way for over a year now," the North Carolina-raised artist concluded. "I do not find being a 'rapper' fascinating and rather than waste the remaining 9 months of 2015 in some kind of FAKE existential crisis where I pretend I don't know what I want I'm taking the initial steps to securing what I know I do want, to observe and write about places and cultures in our world not known to many and to better educate myself about the cultures, gender politics and patriarchy that shape our society so that I may one day be able to speak and influence our world in a way a dance song and music video cannot."

We'll be on the lookout for your byline.