Okyeame Kwame is a popular hiplife musician
Veteran Ghanaian rapper Okyeame Kwame has opened up about a painful chapter in his life, sharing how he once had to walk through snow in freezing temperatures to get to work in the United States, despite having a successful music career in Ghana.
Speaking on Okay FM with Nana Romeo on April 15, 2026, the rap doctor recounted how he had travelled to the US after his third album flopped and his fanbase was pulled away by the rise of rival rapper Lord Kenya.
"I remember going for a show and I was next on the bill. I heard the MC asking who they wanted to listen to. The crowd shouted, 'Lord Kenya.’
“That discouraged me. So when I got the opportunity to go to the US to work, I didn't think twice,” he said.
In America, Okyeame Kwame said he worked night shifts at a hospital and shared a basement with his bandmate, Okyeame Quophi.
“I used to live with my brother Okyeame Kofi at his sister’s place. So when she closes from work in the day. She would pick me and take me to work.
“One day, she was tired after her shift, then I overheard her husband talking to her, saying, 'Won't that boy take the bus? Everyday he wants a lift.’
When I overheard them, I emerged and decided to take the bus.
After standing in the cold for over 20 minutes with no bus in sight, he began walking through the snow. Midway through the journey, he noticed something alarming.
"I was so distraught until I realised my face was frozen. I asked myself what made my face frozen? Then I noticed that I had been crying and my tears had frozen to my face," he recalled, visibly emotional.
At that lowest point, he said he he had a conversation with God.
"I asked God, ‘Why are you allowing me to suffer this way?
“I heard God's voice in my head saying, 'You are foolish, you have a gift of music, you even have an award. Instead of you using that gift, you are in another man's land and suffering,” he said.
That moment, he said, changed everything. He returned to Ghana and rebuilt one of the most celebrated careers in Ghanaian music history.
"Everybody has a gift. It could be speaking, singing, acting, writing. Do not play with your gift," he urged.
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