Blaqbonez has opened up about his mother’s initial opposition to his music career and the creative lengths he went to in order to keep rapping behind her back.
Speaking on the ‘Off The Record‘ podcast, the ‘Sex Over Love’ hitmaker, born Emeka Akumefule, revealed that his parents were not supportive of his musical ambitions until he achieved success.
“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 admitted that he briefly stopped making music but eventually returned, more determined and more discreet.
He revealed that one of the most amusing moments came when his mother caught him red-handed after repeatedly warning him 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.”
Blaqbonez first broke into mainstream consciousness with his 2021 debut album ‘Sex Over Love’.
He has continued his impressive run in the music industry with several hit projects.
