‘How music saved me,’ Jeriq opens up

Nigerian rapper, Jeremiah Chukwuebuka Ani, popularly known as Jeriq, has opened up on his life before music, revealing that his career saved him from going to prison.

The Enugu born rapper, in an interview with The Smallie, explained that he was exposed to many vices very early. Jeriq noted that music was his ticket out of the streets.

“I have been arrested multiple times by law enforcement agencies due to vices. If you look at my hands and legs, you will see scars of handcuffs. Anti-cult, police have all arrested me before. Thank God for music. If not for music, I would probably be in prison by now,” he said.also shared the struggles he faced when he initially came to Lagos to push his career forward,” he stated.

Jeriq further spoke about his experience in Lagos and how he found it difficult to collaborate with artists during his first visit to the state.

“The first time I came to Lagos, then I wasn’t popping so I didn’t any opportunity to meet artists. If was difficult to collaborate with any artist then because I was still upcoming. However, things changed we I came back in 2021 and I was able to do a collaborative EP with Dremo titled ‘East and West’,” he explained.