'My wife and I lost our twin girls at birth' - Kojo Cue opens up

For about two whole years, rapper Kojo Cue went on a music break because he and his wife, Professor Priscilla Kolibea Mante, lost twins at birth and he couldn't take it all in.

Kojo Cue, speaking on “The Pesewa” podcast aired on May 3, 2026, disclosed that when COVID-19 hit, his wife had twin girls prematurely and were put in an incubator for about two weeks but unfortunately, they couldn't survive.

“In 2020, my wife had twins, twin girls, but she had them prematurely, and they were in an incubator for about two weeks. This was during the height of COVID. Then they died, and we went into lockdown,” he shared.

The Ghanaian rap storyteller said the incident took a toll on him, pushing him onto a completely different path.

'I quit music because of mental health issues' - Kojo Cue

He said, normally, when hard-hitting experiences occur, he finds comfort in creating music, but this time he couldn’t, as it was simply overwhelming

“I just went down another path altogether, and it got so terrible that… because usually, when I have all these things, where I go to is music. Music, but I couldn’t. It was too fresh, more than I anticipated it to be,” he noted.

Kojo Cue further noted, “So I was trying to run from it for as long as I could. I was trying to find other things, now that I couldn’t do it through music. So I quit music. I was doing anything and everything just to take my mind off it.”

The rapper talked about the incident on “Gold Dust” off the “KANI: A Bantama Story” album where he said the moment shook him to his core, forcing him to confront fear, faith, and loss all at once.

He captures the panic, the prayers, and the fragile hope that surrounded the birth.



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