The brilliant Nigerian Afrobeat artist Adedamola Adefolahan, better known as Fireboy DML, has opened out about the difficult time he had in school when he began to focus on his profession.
Fireboy DML said that he was a brilliant student at Obafemi Awolowo University who was torn between academics and music, resulting in a significant dip in his grades.
Fireboy continued, explaining that he had to undertake an extra year since he had fallen behind in his academics due to a lack of appropriate planning and time management.
He revealed this in a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo.
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He said: “Finishing school was a struggle. It was a tough time for me. I had an extra year but I finished.
To be honest I just couldn’t wait to finish school because I knew that after school like this I wasn’t going back home. I was going straight to Lagos,” said the singer who was,at the time, based in Abeokuta.
He continued: “There was a time my dad came to my school. Oh God! Final year and your dad came to school.
It was as if I was in secondary school and he was holding my hand like let’s go to your lecturer’s office. It was really embarrassing and those were really tough times for me.”