By Christian George
Nigerian hip-hop star, Zlatan Ibile, has revealed that he had to use the car he won in a music competition as a taxi.
The singer, in a recent chat with media personality, Samuel Eni added that winning that car was God telling him something.
He explained that he topped 140 contestants to win the car which he later used as a taxi.
He revealed that it took him about four years after winning the car to rise to stardom.
He said: “I qualified among the two to go represent my school in the grand finale [of a music competition]. So, like tactically out of 140 candidates. With just two tracks, I just started rapping. I know nothing about music. I just started writing and downloading beats online. And out of 140 people, I don’t know how God did it, I won a brand new car when I was 19 years old. My first semester in school.
“From there, I just sat down and said to myself, if I can win a brand new car, seems God is telling me something. I took it seriously from there.”
He recounted that his encounter with Olamide and Davido made a turnaround in his music career.
“After that, it took me another four years after I won the car. I ended up using the car as [a] taxi because I could not maintain the car or maintain the lifestyle. Before, Olamide saw me one day and hit me up on Instagram. He called me up and made a song for me, for free,[and also] came for the video shoot for free. To me, that was like my breakthrough song in 2017.
“Davido saw the song [Body], and danced to it; the video was his first one million views on Instagram. And, he called me to come to his house. He made [a] song for me. I told him I don’t have money for [the] video. He gave me money for the video. After then, I made Zanku, and since then it has been blessings upon blessings.”
