{"id":17827,"date":"2024-12-16T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17827"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:05:59","slug":"rapper-ice-prince-shares-how-poverty-almost-derailed-his-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/rapper-ice-prince-shares-how-poverty-almost-derailed-his-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ice Prince Shares How Poverty Almost Derailed His Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian rapper Ice Prince recently shared his inspiring come-up story, revealing how financial struggles hindered his pursuit of higher education, during an interview on the Listen with Osi podcast.<\/p>\n<section><i>&#8220;I want people to remember me as that guy who came out of nothing and became something, and look at my life story and be like,&#8217; if this idiot can make it then I don&#8217;t have any excuse to fail.'&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>He revealed how losing his both parents at a young age shaped his life,<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have a mother, I&#8217;m an only son and that&#8217;s quite tough and I&#8217;ve been that way since I was 11 years old when I lost my dad. I was 21 or 22 when my mum passed away and I have a family that depends on me. I don&#8217;t have any uncles, aunties, Godfathers or Godmothers that I can depend on. It&#8217;s been nothing but God in my life.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ice Prince reflected on his school days, detailing how financial difficulties affected his educational journey, and expressed his desire for his triumphant story to motivate and inspire others.<\/p>\n<section><em>He explained,\u00a0&#8220;I just want people to look at my life and be like, &#8216;if this imperfect human can be somebody, I have no excuse to fail.&#8217;I was the guy who would spend at least 3 weeks out of every school term at home because of school fees.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><em>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t go to university because of 20,000 which is like one spliff now. That&#8217;s the reason I didn&#8217;t go, because of 20,000. I had two weeks to pay that money for a registration and I couldn&#8217;t come up with it and that&#8217;s how I lost the admission and I became a studio rat from there,&#8221; he stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian rapper Ice Prince recently shared his inspiring come-up story, revealing how financial struggles hindered his pursuit of higher education, during an interview on the Listen with Osi podcast. &#8220;I want people to remember me as that guy who came out of nothing and became something, and look at my life story and be like,&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,2094,2093],"class_list":{"0":"post-17827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-ice-prince","10":"tag-rapper-ice-prince-shares-how-poverty-almost-derailed-his-dreams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17830,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions\/17830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}