Nigerian artiste, Emeka Akumefule widely known as Blaqbonez has recounted his musical journey while he was knocking on the door of fame back then.
The rapper who has struck mainstream success in recent times said the story was contrastingly different years ago as had to produce his songs himself because he had no money to pay for the services of people.
In a new update on his Twitter platform, Blaqbonez whose real name said when he made his first 200k, he wanted to use it to buy studio equipment but his mother made him give it to a pastor as first fruit.
He wrote; “I took the longest road to success in this music ting, I f**king dropped 8 mixtapes, when i look back it don’t make sense that I didn’t give up.
The first mixtape i recorded, sound engineer called me to say his system crashed and everything was lost, I fell to the ground on the main road in tears, cos omo I was traveling from oau to Lagos every weekend to record it 😭
When I made my first 200k and I wanted to buy studio equipment my mum carried me to go and give pastor as first fruit 😭😭. the first mixtape I recorded, sound engineer called me to say his system crashed and everything was lost, I fell to the ground on the main road in tears, cos omo I was traveling from oau to Lagos every weekend to record it 😭”.
