"A bundle of energy", "Bubbly", "Fierce", "Mischievous".
The way Lady Leshurr's MCing has been described by critics might give you the impression she's overflowing with confidence.
If you watch her music videos, live performances or appearances on reality TV, you might not guess the 34-year-old struggles with social anxiety.
She's been telling Radio 1 Newsbeat about how she's "restarting her life again" after struggling with anxious thoughts.
'Massive, massive pressure'
The assumptions people make about her personality and confidence don't sit right with her.
"There's certain people that just expect me to just be a rapper on the spot," Leshurr - whose real name is Melesha Katrina O'Garro - tells Newsbeat.
"I'll be eating food at a restaurant and suddenly they've got their Snapchat in my face, like: 'Spit bars!'.
"And it's like, I'm actually a human. If you got to know me, you'd actually want to chill with me as a normal person.
"But some people just think that's it, that's all there is to me."
✔Lady Leshurr has struggled with being out in public
Because of the expectations and "massive, massive pressure" to keep up an extroverted persona as a performer, Lady Leshurr withdrew from public life, to an extent.
Professionally, she was still performing - and taking part on reality TV shows like The Celebrity Circle and Dancing on Ice, but outside of that - she preferred a solitary life.
"I've been living a lockdown before lockdown.
"I just never used to go out the house. And if I did, I'll get a taxi from there and back."
✔ Leshurr has been MCing for years, and was even on the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2020
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