Zlatan Ibile, the popular Nigerian rapper, recently shared that his dream career was actually to be a football player.
However, he ended up pursuing music after stumbling upon it by chance. He mentioned that he wanted to play for Barcelona, one of the top teams in La Liga.
Zlatan’s interest in music sparked when one of his friends played a song he had recorded.
In his words:
I was not a bright student in secondary school. I struggled with Mathematics and Accounting. I was in a Commercial class. I failed my WAEC and I was supposed to sit at home for a year. All my dream was to play for Barcelona.
“I tried my possible best but the corruption in Nigerian football discouraged me. I was playing for a local club then. When I failed WAEC, I was going to sit down at home for a year, and then one of my friends came and played his record for me.
“I told him to take me to the studio the next time he was going. That was how I became a musician. I never had the intention of being a musician.”
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