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Ill Bliss Reveals He Worked As A Janitor In A School For Kids With Down Syndrome In UK
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iLLBliss gets personal with Chude Jidenowo, reveals intimate details of career, family.
iLLBliss was a guest on Chude Jidenowo’s podcast “With Chude,” and he didn’t hold back.
The renowned rapper, who has been steady in the music industry for several years, opened up about his work, marriage, and other personal matters.
IllBliss, who made his Nollywood debut in Kemi Adetiba’s ‘King of Boys,‘ where he played Odogwu Malay, discussed his career as a rapper in excerpts from his interview with Chude.
He explained that before he started rapping, he was already a banker who was methodically working his way up the corporate ladder. He’d leave his office to go to radio stations for interviews, where he’d have to change from his business clothing to Hiphop attire.
He also talked of travelling to London, where he ended up residing for two years instead of two months and having to work four jobs to keep his body and spirit together, including one as an industrial cleaner at a coffee shop and another as a janitor at a special needs school.
In his words;
“So I went to the UK for about 2 years. It was supposed to be for 2 months and I ended up staying for 2 years. I got to England and I couldn’t work, now that I knew, of course, I got a student visa. And then, the grind started. At some point I couldn’t pay the rent. At another point, I’d have to live at Shepherds bush on one day and at Canning town the next day; I was just changing my location and just moving with my friends.
I have done everything. I’ve worked in a coffee shop and as an industrial cleaner. At a point, I had like 4 jobs concurrently.
I was working in the coffee factory, doing industrial cleaning and hygiene. Then I was working with a school for kids with Down Syndrome, cleaning the school every morning for 3 hours”
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IllBliss also discussed the benefits of marrying your best friend while sharing his and his wife’s waiting story.
He explained that they married in 2009 but had to wait eight years to have their first child.
He went on to say that, despite the extended wait, they were not concerned about the delay in having children.
Watch excerpts of the interview below.
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