Jonathan Nwokpor
Nigerian hip-hop musician Erhiga Agarivbie, better known by his stage as Erigga, has expressed regret that his father believes he has a right to his money even though he trained himself and fled the family at the age of eight.
He claimed that although his father had not been active in his upbringing, he began contacting and pressuring him once he achieved success.
In the most recent Spill With Phyna podcast episode, the rapper who was born in Warri revealed this.
Erigga said, “When you see parents start feeling entitled, it doesn’t make sense because you had many years ahead of me, why didn’t you make it before me? People don’t really address this entitlement mentality in Africa.
“I was facing the street alone. I was involved in too many things that I can’t even say on camera. And I just keep wondering like what if I was shot or arrested? Because most of the people I was with then are either dead or in jail.
“I’ve to start raising myself at the age of 8. I started living with my friends and learning bad habits. But then again, I fell in love with music at a very tender age so I knew where I wanted to be regardless of where I was. Then many years later, I now become Erigga then somebody comes and say, ‘Yo! You’re not taking care of me. You’re not doing this and that.’ And I’m like, ‘Bro, na relations we be because you no father the father wey you suppose father normally. I don father myself alone. And I can’t give you the credit.
“All my stepbrothers started begging me to forgive our dad, saying he wasn’t also responsible to them. But at the end of the day, they are only having the conversation with me because I am who I am.”
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