Fast-rising Nigerian hip-pop singer, Crown Uzama, popularly known by his stage name as Shallipopi, has revealed how hunger motivated him to make money.
The ‘Benin born’ singer made this revelation in his recent interview by rapper Odumodublvck during a recent episode of the Turntable podcast.
The “Elon Musk” hitmaker explained that he was once so very poor and broke that he drank garri for 10 consecutive days, and it was during that time he began to self-reflect.
While being interviewing, Odumodu asked about his state of living before his rise to stardom that inspired him to achieve success by all means necessarily.
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Shallipopi, in response noted that after drinking garri for 10 good days in a row, he realized he needed to work very hard to be successful in life.
“Taste garri for 10 days straight”
Shallipopi too real, Naija uni students fit relate 😂pic.twitter.com/uH6PY21L7f
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He said:
“Make you just taste garri for like 10 straight days, then you go rethink your life. You go blow by force.”