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Ghanaian hiplife and hip-hop artiste, Michael Owusu Addo, known in showbiz as Sarkodie<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, has described his childhood as a \u201ccrazy and horrific moment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although the one-time BET award winner was cautious not to reveal the full details \u00a0in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show, he disclosed how encouragement and genuine love of parenting eluded him as he grew up with a relative at Achimota in Accra.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”H6hGMM9xcPLCG6jbIl9sOjpOlks10o0m”]However the rapper says regardless of the sufferings, he kept on expressing himself through rapping even as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy growing up is a story I wouldn\u2019t like to go too deep into. But I have a song called the Mile 7 saga. That song actually talks about my life when I was growing up. I was not with mum and dad and I was living with somebody and I know a lot of kids are going through that now and I think it\u2019s really bad. You know what I am driving at\u2026I was a timid kid so I never had a way of expressing myself; I am not too sociable and the only therapy I had was writing; so if I want to talk to dad or mum and I can\u2019t see them \u00a0all I do is write\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019 was a crazy time; it was a horror moment; that\u2019s what I call it. It was then I heard hiplife with Reggie Rockstone and I felt like I could relate to it as the best therapy for me. So that led me into music; I was not influenced by a friend because I had no friend rapping at the time. I was the first person in Achimota Preparatory school to rap so I was meant to do it and I have kept on and that\u2019s the only thing I seem to have the passion for so if I keep it 100% I don\u2019t know why I should have any failure in it\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

The Rap Journey <\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Sarkodie, his music career started taking shape when he moved from Achimota to Tema.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I moved from Achimota I got into music and the monetary aspect came in when it turned into a profession. People said that since I was good at it; why don\u2019t I take it serious? And then Dr. Duncan of Adom FM then came in and that has been the aggression from that day till date. I was desperate to rap but not to come out; I just wanted any chance to rap. I even did a rap at someone\u2019s wake-keeping with a dead body there. That\u2019s actually the passion I had because anytime I heard people testing the microphone I wanted to do something so I forgot the dead body was there so I took the microphone and told the DJ to give me some beat to shake the place up because they normally play the songs of Esther Smith at such events. So they gave me some beats and the person\u2019s mother was pissed off\u201d Sarkodie narrated.<\/p>\n

\"SARK-ONE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarkodie narrated how at one point he had to sleep with about seven people a single-room Achimota. He however said in that room, he leant how to grasp the Twi language from his \u00a0friends from Kumasi \u00a0that enables him rap in the dialect although his Twi is not as impeccable as that of Obrafour, Komfo Kwadei, Lord Kenya and Reggie Rockstone, who are all his role models.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t speak Twi so well like Obrafuor who can pronounce certain words. But I am good at having a very good Twi accent so it makes somebody who likes Twi appreciate it when I say something. My influences were Obrafour, Reggie Rockstone, Komfo Kwadei and Lord Kenya. I still listen to them till date. In my beginning, I was with about seven people in one room at Achimota and they were all Asantes so when they speak that\u2019s all I knew\u201d.<\/p>\n

The multiple award winner is launching his new album titled \u2018Mary\u2019 this September.<\/p>\n

This will be his fourth solo effort, following Makye in 2009, Rapperholic in 2012 and Sarkology in 2014.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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