Former Rapper, Eldee Explains Why He Left Music.
Lanre Dabiri better known as Eldee has said in an interview published by Punch on Saturday, July 6, 2019 that one of the reasons he decided to leave music in 2012 was because he was not having time for his family.
He said, “I made a conscious decision not to be an active musician in 2012. It wasn’t like I was trying and it wasn’t working. I realised that with the path that my music was taking me, I wouldn’t have time for my family and they are more important. Also I didn’t want to raise my children in the environment that I was in at the time; I needed to take them away because they had better options.
The rapper once made a tweet about how his song, ‘I am a big boy’ contributed to the rise in fraud amongst youths in Nigeria. When asked if he regretted ever producing the song, he said he had no regrets but would do things differently if he could.
“I don’t regret singing my song – ‘I am a big boy’; if I had the chance to do the same song now; I probably wouldn’t do it, based on what I know now. I don’t regret that I did it; it had its own impact. It is just that based on what I know now, I might have done it differently. I was embedded in the culture; it was a function of what I knew and understood at the time. That was all I knew and it is safe to say that I was appealing to my audience,” he said.
He is an original member of the band, Trybesmen, in 1998 with rappert KB and Freestyle.