Popular rapper, William Kalubi, better known by his stage name, Damso has revealed that his parents kicked him out of their family home because his life plans made them feel uncomfortable.
In his first interview for an English-speaking audience, the Belgian-Congolese rapper said he had a 10-year plan to be successful, adding that for his parents, the plan was nonsense.
“The life being offered didn’t speak to me: waking up at eight in the morning, coming home at five or later, and waiting for retirement. So I made a 10-year plan to be successful, and then leave. The final year is 2022.
“For them, it was nonsense, so I was in the streets for six months after they kicked me out of the family home,” he stated.
Revealing what he was busy doing at the time he was on the streets, Damso said: “I just continued with the plan: I wrote, I signed to a record label, I did my first project, then the second album, third, fourth.”
He further added that had the titles of each album before he even began.
When asked about how he has bee dealing with COVID-19, Damso said he’s no stranger to torrid period like this.
Making reference to the civil war in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, the music star recounted how he used to take refuge from rebels when he was just 8-year-old.
“It was like a gam. You could be celebrating a birthday in the day, and in the evening you could hear shooting. That’s just how it was for a long time, so that’s why it was a sort of game. But there were corpses, so it was a weird game,” he explained.