Nigerian rapper cum lawyer Folarin Falana who is better known as Falz has opened up about how he decided to pursue a career in music and made it clear that he was not pressured to follow in his father's legal career.

The popular rapper stated during an interview with Chude Jideonwo on the podcast "With Chude" that he was greatly motivated throughout his childhood by his father, Femi Falana SAN.

Falz said that although he was inspired to pursue law by his father's services to society, his time in the legal field was limited.

According to him, after completing his youth service, he was employed by the Ministry of Justice and then by his father's legal practice. In the end, he made the decision to give up practicing law and focus only on music.

He said, “I won’t say it was pressure but when I was super young, it was like, ‘These people have to be something’ because I was already getting that reaction everywhere I went. And if I ever mentioned my name, people would be like, ‘Which Falana? Is it Femi Falana? Oh wow.

Everyone sort of had a story about how my dad came to their aid at some point in time and how he fought for them and was there for them. At that time it was me taking everything in, like, ‘this is something’. So at that point in time, I wasn’t pressured; I aspired to emulate what he was doing.

I did practice law for a short period of time. Very short, almost two years. I worked at the Ministry of Justice during my youth service, which was like 2012 or so, then in 2013 I was at my father’s firm and 2014 was when things started to pick up for me so I started going out of practice”.