'I Am Finally Taking My Life And Music Into My Own Hands' - Wangechi

Piece by: Future Ex
Lifestyle

Even when she's not busy dropping new jams, talented female rapper is arguably one of the best FemCees in Kenya and across East Africa.

This is thanks to her chart topping tracks which include; Cardiac Arrest, They Don’t Know, Do For Love and Tulia Tu among others.

The 24-year-old artist recently took to her Instagram page on to announce that she had made a vital decision to 'Finally take my life and music into my own hands'.

In the lengthy post, the 'Cardiac Arrest' hit maker narrated how she placed the power over her in so many people's hands instead of her own, when she first burst into the Kenyan scene as a teenager. Something which she is ready to reclaim and start a new.

I started this whole music thing at the age of 19. Everything in my whole life revolved around it. Success and my value in my head was always, “how many plays or how many likes did I get” or “why didn’t the crowd scream as loud for me as I got on stage.” I placed the power over me and who I was in so many other people’s hands instead of my own. How I dressed. How I spoke. How I rhymed. How I looked. It’s easy not to listen to your own thoughts on who you are at such a young age cause basically “YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.”

With 2018 still fresh, the rapper has made up her mind not to listen to anyone but her inner self with her main goal being, to focus in building a life of happiness.

Wangechi capped off the post by assuring her fans that at 24, whether she wins or loses she's ready to conquer the world by whatever means possible.

Read her inspiring post below.

"5 years later and here I am finally deciding to take my life and music into my own hands. To create because I love it and not because it’s what the crowd wants to hear.

To put all my focus and mind in building a life of happiness because I can finally stand in front of a crowd and say I know who Wangechi is. I’m 24 now; that middle point of I should have my life together by now and f*** it you only live once. That point of my peers have such great jobs and I’m here still chasing a dream that is perceived as a hobby more than a career.

So here I go, 24 and winging it. Win or lose. Whether I’m the hammer or the nail, this year I’ll stay building."