I didn’t know my family was rich while growing up – Davido

David Adeleke, also known as Davido, a famous Nigerian artist, has confessed that he had no idea his family was wealthy when he was growing up.

He claims he didn’t realize his father, Chief Adedeji Adeleke, was wealthy until he was 13 years old.

The ‘Kante‘ singer said this while appearing as a guest on the newest episode of N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s Drink Champs podcast.

“As much money as I’ve seen, all these rich this, rich that,” he continued. My father is really strict.

“I ain’t know we had money till I was 13. My dad was a billionaire driving a Honda Accord. Let me tell you how I knew he was lit. So, there was an explosion and a lot of houses got destroyed including our first house that we have been since when I was a kid. When that happened, we had to leave that day because the house got so f*cked up.

“So, my mum was like, David, we are leaving, we are going to the new house. I was like, ahnn! New house? He [my dad] has been building the house in another part of the town since but I didn’t even know. We started driving, when he got there, it was mad. Big crib. He still stays there now. I was like, mummy, what’s going on? That was when I started realising that my dad was rich.”