Nigerian sensational ‘Baby Pull Over’ hit maker musician Kcee, with real name Kingsley Chinweike Okonkwo, spoke about how he waggled through pretentious life, faking to be rich, while in actual sense, he was just a poor dude living in one room, managing to eke out a living.
He said he faked his life to appear rich in public, whereas, every damn thing he owned were of cheap quality, bought from the second hand market.
He made this known in an interview with TVC’s Wake Up Nigeria, where he said that he had to fake living an expensive life to create a nitch for himself in a very competitive entertainment industry, where everyone was for himself.
In his own words: “Well, growing up I started with showing you so much bling. Showing you that I’m expensive even when I was living in one room. I was showing people that oh I have lifestyle. I would go to somewhere around Surulere, buy those big jackets. Go to Yaba.
“I tried to live luxury life I’m not even [living]. But I was already seeing myself in that picture. And what happened was, people started seeing me in that light. I started writing songs showing that okay, I’m very expensive. I’m rich. And like joke like joke, I started living the life. I started thinking towards that direction.
And today, I’m excited that by the grace of God, I’m living real. I used to wear fake [chain] a lot, they used to burn my neck. You will see the iron burning my neck. When sun hit me, it burns my neck. But today, I wear IceBox. So it’s a journey you need to build and create. Illusion and God will help you be there. So my advice is create something for yourself.”
