"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", Unfortunately, these words by Rabindranath Tagore begin to make more sense to us when crossing the sea is the only option that is available. The only thing that separates you from your dreams is action. Here's how some random kid from Dandora slums made it to the list of the few Kenyan millionaire artistes.

Sadly, everyone wants to be successful in the shortest time possible, but no one is willing to put in the work or struggle for it. Nothing comes easy; award-winning Kenyan Gospel rapper Juliani is a good example of that.

The rapper, who's holding a concert on the 27th of May 2016 to celebrate his first album Mtaa Mentality, has lately been sharing stories about his personal life and how he struggled to make it to the top.

"I was sure they had come for me; The Illuminati. How else could you explain a phone number so long it couldn’t fit on my phone’s screen?" the rapper asked on his recent post, revealing how he had to hop from home to home trying to avoid the dangerous lifestyle in Dandora.

My bed wasn’t even a 4 by 6 then; it was 3 by 6. I was 24 years old and living in Ngumo thanks to Pastor Albo and Eda Esilaba. I couldn’t go back to Dandora. I was tired of jumping over sewers, the never ending gunshots and seeing the same old faces. Maybe I saw myself in them. It felt like walking around and seeing my face on other people’s heads.

I needed out. So I stayed for like a month at Dj Moz and Njugush’s house in Waroko Burning. We came back from a school mission one and I stayed. Never went back to Dandora. I’m sure they were silently wondering, “Mwanaume hauendi kwenu?”

They understood though. Njugush once gave me 5 k to have my music put on CDs to sell at school missions. That’s how we survived as Gospel artists. I hope I’m still gospel.

So I finally got the guts to leave Waroko Burning and got space at Albo’s. I don’t know how, but when I did, I found myself upstairs. In Dandora we had stair cases to the next floor. In Ngumo the stairs were inside the house to other rooms. Budah! We only saw this kind of houses on TV.

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