How landlord threw my family out because of N18,000 rent - Crayon recalls

Fast-rising Nigerian artiste, Crayon has recalled some unpleasant experiences he had faced due to poverty.

He recounted how a landlord once evicted his family from a room after his parents could not renew their rent.

According to him, the incident occurred in 2013 and their house rent was N18,000 then.

In a recent interview with MTV Base Crayon said, “What happened is, our church member was living in a house before so she wanted to move out of the house. And we [my family] were looking for a house because they gave us a deadline to move from our former house.

“So, our church member told us that okay, you guys can move into the house. We did not know all along that she was owing rent. And we had a deadline. My dad already signed a tenancy with the landlord because the landlady was going crazy.

“So, five days before [the expiration of the deadline], we moved and then we got to the [our church member’s] house. It was still a ‘face-me-I-face-you’. And then I think one of the tenants called the landlord like, ‘Yo, somebody just moved into your house.’ And then the landlord came and threw our things out. We started begging. I was f*cking depressed looking at my mom and dad being down in front of a normal man. “Guess how much was the rent? N18k. This was 2013/2014.”

As a big star now, financial troubles is a thing of the past. Crayon's net worth is estimated to be at $50,000-$150,000.