Entertainment of Saturday, 25 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comI was once a shoeshine boy - Okyeame Kwame narrates childhood strugglesplay videoGhanaian Rapper, Okyeame KwameOkyeame Kwame has recounted how his early life experiences such as being a shoeshine boy and selling polythene bags shaped him into a successful musician. The rapper who says he grew up in a big house with about 50 different families as tenants noted that he didn’t understand why he had to live like that because his father was an accountant and as a child, he felt they could afford a better life. “I grew up in the (big house) ‘efikesem’ type of setting where we had like 150 people in one big house built by some old cocoa farmer that has one toilet and bath. “…I lived there and sold rubber bag when I was five years old, I made my own shoeshine box and on vacation, I’ll go through the neighborhood and shine shoes for coins. The ‘rap doctor’ urged the young talents to draw lessons from their struggles and stay humble and true to themselves and not to tag their present state as insignificant.

Source: GhanaWeb January 25, 2020 12:11 UTC