Nigerian rapper Blaqbonez shared that his mother was at first against his music career, so he found creative ways to keep rapping without her knowing.
On the ‘Off The Record’ podcast, Blaqbonez, whose real name is Emeka Akumefule, said his parents did not support his music dreams until he became successful.
“They used to tell me that only one in one thousand blows, the remaining 999 struggles,” he recalled.
“I’m like, who told you I can’t be that one?”
Blaqbonez said rather than feel discouraged, he simply dismissed their concerns as generational.
“I thought they were old, and they didn’t know what was up,” he said.
“I thought I was the coolest. Maybe I wasn’t then, but the mentality is important.”
The 30-year-old rapper said he took a short break from making music, but came back with more determination and kept a lower profile.
He shared that one of the funniest moments was when his mother caught him in the act, even after she had warned him several times to stop rapping.
“She caught me, one time, she was like stop this rapping….I’m like okay, cool, before I had an account I use to do all these rapping was my real name, I decided that I was going to create a fake account and go about my online account so that I can push my rap,” he added.
“So, in one of my raps, I did not know what I was doing, I think I tagged somebody and I didn’t know that when you tag somebody, it will show up on anybody that is on their profile.”