I was a member of a criminal gang and could have been killed before I retraced my steps, says Daddy Showkey

The 53-year-old Nigerian veteran musician and ‘Galala’ hitmaker John Asiemo popularly called Daddy Showkey has confessed that he was once a notorious gang member, who almost lost his life when he stole and was about to be set ablaze when caught in the criminal act.

Penpushing reports that the dancehall star made the confession in an interview on the latest episode of the Honest Bunch podcast and recounting his experience as member of criminal gang having access to guns, which they used to terrorise residents of Ikorodu in Lagos state.

“I was in a gang back in the day. I won’t lie. Some of us found a gun that we used to pick valuables from a refuse dump in Ikorodu. We started using guns to terrorise the area. Showing them we now have guns’, he recalled.

‘One day, when we were out in our usual style, one of the boys saw us and started screaming, ‘Thieves, thieves, thieves’ and we ran. They caught me and my friend, and they tied us up, and they were going to burn us’, he recounted

Penpushing further reports that Showkey explaining that during the dark days of his life one of his friends, whom he identified as 91A, was caught and burned alive on a road in Ajegunle, emphasizing that he is proof to every young man that they could become somebody.

“I am a living testimony for every young man because If I, John, can be alive today to become Daddy Showkey, nobody can’t become someone. We were saved miraculously, but unfortunately, they caught 91A and burnt him alive on the new road in Ajegunle. I was mimicking snakes and all sorts of animals,” he said.

Penpushing also reports that, he, however, pointed out that the incident which could have led to untimely death made him popular, adding that he was a lion in the garage and that somebody told him to use his voice to shout in the garage for singing

‘It was that day I became famous. I have always told them in Ajegunle that they see me on the television. People are usually ashamed to talk about their past because it’ll be used to mock them, but I’m not. I don’t care. I was a lion in a garage. Someone told me to use my voice to shout in the garage for singing’, he added

Penpushing reports that Daddy Showkey, alongside his contemporaries, African China, Danfo Drivers, Baba Fryo, and Marvelous Benjy, were Ajengunle’s most prominent music exports from the 1990s until the early 2000s.

The musician in 2020, it is recalled narrated how a ghastly accident almost ended his music career and left him bedridden for three years, while in 2007 he was involved in an accident while returning from the birthday party of fellow singer Olu Maintain, and his music career suffered a setback following the accident that adversely affected his spine.

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