Eight-year-old rapper strikes chord in Uganda with songs about poverty
Ugandan eight-year-old rapper "Fresh Kid", whose real name is Patrick Ssenyonjo, is seen at the Badman Records studios in Kawempe Lugoba, in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda on January 23, 2020. PHOTO | REUTERS
Ugandan rapper “Fresh Kid” has racked up hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube, won a US music award and emerged victorious from a tussle with the government—all before his eighth birthday.
The rapper, real name Patrick Ssenyonjo, has become a household name in Uganda, a country mired in poverty and corruption, for singing about his parents’ struggles to provide for him and his four siblings.
