Rapper Emeka Akumefule aka Blaqbonez has revealed some of the challenges he faced as an up-and-coming artiste.
In a Twitter post on Wednesday, the rapper said that most people thought he would end up like his uncle who was formerly a rapper but ended up as a drug addict.
According to him, the fear of becoming like his uncle gave him the strength to prove them right.
He said: “Had an uncle that used to rap, didn’t happen for him, he then got hooked on drugs, from rehab to rehab till he ended up in the village when I started rapping everyone thought I would end up like that but boy did it turn out soooo different. I stay proving them wrong.
“They used to say ‘I see the spirit of uncle *** inside him”’and it used to hurt me soooooo bad, it then built a serious fear and anxiety in me, in everything I did, cos I constantly thought “what if they’re true?'”
In a Twitter post on August 2021, the 25-year-old revealed that being in the university made him feel like a failure which led to his depression.
“I can’t believe I was almost depressed in the University because their engineering shit was killing me, all I wanted to do was rap. University made me feel like a failure, niggas were getting A’s and the future looking bright, I was dropping mixtapes and hoping not just okay would post it.
“I’m really grateful for how far I’ve come. I don’t know who would have been taking care of my mum if this music did not work out for me,” he wrote.
