Singer, Kingsley Okonkwo, popularly known
as Kcee, has said that fans usually put
celebrities under pressure to lead fake
lives. He told Saturday beats, “90 per
cent of celebrities lead fake lives
because you guys (the public) are putting
them under pressure. People don’t like it
when you are real; they prefer it when you
lie to them, and that’s why many fake it
until they make it.
“If you are very honest and truthful with
them (fans), your records will have slow
sales. 80 per cent of celebrities rent
apartments but they would claim they
bought the houses.
They go through that because fans put them
under so much pressure. That you see
someone on television does not mean the
person is worth N1bn, so people should
stop thinking that we’re living in heaven
on earth.”
Having spent 19 years in the industry,
Kcee admitted that he had also ‘faked’ it
in the past. He stated, “Yes, I have faked
it at some point.
When I started, I had to fake it. To be a
celebrity, there is a perception you need
to sell so that people can look up to you.
I am saying this because I have gone
through that and I have passed that stage.
I am now successful. There was a time I
was driving a Hummer jeep while my then
partner, Presh, had his own. We would go
to clubs and use all our money to pop
champagnes. At the end of the day, we
would throw the drinks away and go back
home to eat noodles.
We wanted to impress people and make them
see us as the most expensive artistes.
When I was in Ajegunle (Lagos) and I got
to a level where I needed to leave that
area, I used to tell people that I was
living in Ikeja, though I was still
staying at Ajegunle. Before you knew it,
we started living in Ikeja and from there,
we moved on to bigger things. There is
faith life and also fake life. My own
journey was always keying into that
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