Ghanaian rap goddess Eno Barony has responded to claims that her songs are always filled with controversial lines.
In an interview, Eno Barony opened up about support from parents, going international, judgement from people, being controversial, and more.
According to her, she is satisfied with the fact that her being called controversial is related to her music and not anything else. She added that she knows she is at a place where everything she does raises conversations.
In answering a question of if being controversial was a strategy she uses since in the industry you either come through controversy or use a particular strategy, she said:
“I never knew I was controversial…it’s people who mention my name and say I’m a controversial rapper. Me I just do me and I give it to management and they feel like this is cool, let’s put this one out and when it comes, it raises conversations”.
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She also mentioned that the lines from her rap songs that people term as controversial are sometimes a question she also wants an answer to.
The singer in the interview disclosed how she was perceived as the devil after entering the music scene by some family members.
The rapper indicated critics assumed she threw away all the religious beliefs instilled in her when she was a child.
According to the ‘Heavy Load’ artiste, she was brought up to believe piercings, perming of one’s hair, and wearing trousers were all wrong.
“I was born without piercings. I pierced my ear when I was in tertiary. They didn’t pierce me. When I go home, I don’t wear earrings, I don’t wear necklaces, I don’t wear trousers.
“My religious background is strict, but we didn’t even have to perm our hair and stuff. So, it’s like a lot of people think I am the devil now. The petty things that they want to relate to the devil is something that I don’t see as a sin”.
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She also added that her recent single, ‘Don’t Judge Me’ with Bishop Duncan William’s son, Daniel Duncan-Williams, was not to oppose their parents, who are pastors.
Eno added that she has seen preacher’s kids who have talents but are scared to harness them because of their families, citing herself as an example.
“Aside from myself, I have seen pastors’ children who are talented and want to do something music-wise. As I am, I will just say my father is okay with me and that not everyone in my family is okay with me doing music”.
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Eno Barony is a Ghanaian rapper known for her amazing and jaw-dropping rap bars. It has been observed by fans of the rapper that she always has controversial lines in her songs.
I kept my rap career a secret – Eno Barony
Ruth Eno Adjoa Amankwa Nyame Adom, popularly known as “Eno Barony”, opened up about how she had to hide her career from her parents until she could not anymore.
Speaking in an interview, she indicated that it was difficult disclosing her career breakthrough to her parents, as they never wanted her to involve herself in secular activities.
Born into a Christian home, she indicated that listening to gospel songs was the only alternative, as her father did not condone secular activities.
According to her, the circumstances in which she found herself made it difficult for her to open up to her parents after discovering her talent.
“Even boys who want to do rap find it difficult to convince their parents, especially responsible ones, to talk less of a girl who wants to do rap. ‘What will a girl be doing hip-hop for?’ is what they used to say. So I was hiding it in the beginning, and I hid it to the point that I couldn’t hide it anymore, because I was on TV and I was everywhere”.
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She further recounted how she had to run away from home just so she could pursue her career, as her parents were not happy with her kind of talent.
Being the first female rapper to win Rapper of the Year at the 3Music Awards in 2021, Eno Barony revealed that she discovered the skill at age 14.
When asked how her relationship with her father is, she said, “We’re cool”.
Even though she promised her father she would never venture into music to enable her to focus on her studies, her parents became angry at her change of mind. This, she said, stemmed from the dispute between her parents and herself.
But she revealed that her father currently supports her music through prayers, as she is not dragging her family’s name through the mud.
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