Rave-making Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor professionally known as Rema has taken to social media to take a swipe at his haters.
In a Kanye West-esque rant on Twitter on Monday, he slammed those who tagged him rude and disrespectful because he did not kowtow to them nor laugh at their off-colour jokes.
Rema, who is 20, said that criticisms directed at him were borne out of the erroneous belief that he hit stardom too easily.
He said, “Niggas don’t wanna see a kid win, they feel I got it too easy. I shower with my sweat, we go off on this side like the days in BENIN it got nun to do with my deal, come and sign these papers without a hustler spirit, you gone lose! Management gone change my password now lol.
“I climbed this cliff with bunch of rejected beats. Some niggas hate me because of that.
“When we in the same room together don’t label me proud or rude because I don’t smile, talk or laugh to your jokes.
“I protect my spirit and my flesh, whatever scar I die with my reborn shall possess.”
The Dumebi crooner thanked former US President Barack Obama for recognising his talent and efforts by naming his single Iron Man in his summer playlist in 2019.
Rema wrote, “Thank you OBAMA for seeing what I saw in Ironman, lot of niggas couldn’t. I was 18 when I made that song, the beat got 6 sounds. I’ll give that simple beat to half the game and I won’t get a record as strong as IRONMAN.
“Niggas feel I’m disrespectful, they want me to alert them before I drop.
“I done made millions before this fame, let no man feel this money changing me.”
Rema recalled a conversation with D’Prince, who owns Jonzing World, a subsidiary of Mavin Records, which he is currently signed on to.
“I told D’prince sir I’m making money where I’m at I think I’m good. D’prince said to me stop what you’re doing and come to me boy “you’re the chosen one”, this music shit is gonna pay if you trust me!
“I done did Melodies that never existed in this world, go listen to my records. I swear them engineers thought I was crazy when I say turn off the auto tune.
“To the girl who rejected me before this fame, I’m eating the royalties off this pain. (WHY).”
The 20-year-old revealed how popular music producer Ozedikus went out of his way to help his career.
“Ozedikus took risks for me, he was under a management with guidelines. He sneaked beats to me so I could record when my first engineer left me because we couldn’t pay him at the time. All the beats Ozedikus sneaked are now HITS.“
He also sent a message to an old friend he identified as Eric, writing, “Eric, Sorry I stole your Laptop in 2017, I know you were trying to help me. My Mom had a child on the way, I was the only man in my family. They made fun of her because she got pregnant, I wanted to prove them wrong bro, I had to do it.”
He further revealed why he is not comfortable around people.
“When my late brother did house parties y’all came, when he died only 2 friends stood beside his death bed. That’s why I’m not comfortable around people, they love me because I have something to offer, You know yourselves don’t let me catch you!!!” Rema said.
In a message to new artistes, he wrote, “Dear new generation artists, let’s be friends genuinely, don’t let this people forcefully make us friends just to prove healthy competition and make us enemies for their own entertainment. I swear I love y’all.”
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