''To be honest, the idea of me being a rapper is a little bit cringe to me.''
But much to the 19-year-old's amusement, he is now a ''little pakeha poet boy from Dunedin'' who has accidentally ended up becoming a popular rapper.
The University of Otago law, theatre and English student won the 2016 Otago Daily Times Secondary Scene Award for Excellence in Writing, and recently released an album of his poetry set to music, called Intro to Orange.
He said no-one was more surprised than him, when it proved very popular with rap music lovers on Spotify and Apple.
''Within an hour of posting it, it got 3000 plays around the world and I started getting recognised by people on the street that day.''
He said people had always compared his poetry to rap music, but he had never entertained the idea of becoming a rap star.
''I didn't really consider that until one time when I was in my hall of residence, I heard one of my friends making instrumental music on his computer and he was saying it needed some lyrics.''
Christian read some of his poetry over the top of the music and it naturally shifted to rapping, he said.
''It actually sounded kind of good and we started having a lot of fun, and from there I realised it wasn't actually that hard to do.''
From there, he decided to create an album of what he calls ''poetry set to music''.
''I spent the summer holidays with a microphone I bought, literally just sitting in my bedroom closet, recording my poetry and setting it to music.''
Why the closet?
''The acoustics are nice and dry in there.''
He said he created much of the music for the album using a drum machine and samples of 1980s soul music and friends playing guitar.
The poetry/lyrics were about a relationship he had and the eventual break-up.
''I'm no 50 Cent. There's no songs about me being in a club with girls and guns or anything like that.
''It's very poetry-focused - definitely not hyper-masculine stuff about drug dealers throwing money everywhere.''
As yet, he doesn't have a rap artist name. He said he was happy to stick with ''plain old Christian Tucker'' for now.
But if the popularity of his album skyrocketed, he would come up with a rap tag and would make sure he had a far more comfortable recording studio than his wardrobe for his next album.
