{"id":902388,"date":"2026-04-29T04:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/my-parents-didnt-believe-my-money-came-from-music\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:30:23","slug":"my-parents-didnt-believe-my-money-came-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/my-parents-didnt-believe-my-money-came-from-music\/","title":{"rendered":"My Parents Didn\u2019t Believe My Money Came from Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhTr_Sz3jxpzF9DrHQ2GXMi5rQTsPTKrDUGIwlU6z9hFsgjbYZVfLb2bokSizjxQ-zQEeqHYQrfXsVyKLQdNoPQMtq1Yna7MkMtJRLN0d4l46mss1YH6lbzCTSPGs3oSad4uoYf3CpmacIEVb8AjltwdSQLxt8HYVLJb1gs_cgUYMyZkfJOLXuA6l444R92\/s320\/Zlatan.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-original-height=\"320\" data-original-width=\"320\" height=\"400\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhTr_Sz3jxpzF9DrHQ2GXMi5rQTsPTKrDUGIwlU6z9hFsgjbYZVfLb2bokSizjxQ-zQEeqHYQrfXsVyKLQdNoPQMtq1Yna7MkMtJRLN0d4l46mss1YH6lbzCTSPGs3oSad4uoYf3CpmacIEVb8AjltwdSQLxt8HYVLJb1gs_cgUYMyZkfJOLXuA6l444R92\/w400-h400-rw\/Zlatan.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Popular Nigerian rapper, Zlatan Ibile has revealed that his<br \/>\nparents\u2019 reaction to his sudden wealth wasn\u2019t warm, at first, but suspicions.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent episode of the YACN podcast, the Zanku<br \/>\ncrooner said after he gained prominence in 2019, he bought a house for his<br \/>\nparents in a Lagos highbrow neighbourhood, Lekki, but they refused the gift<br \/>\nbecause they were unsure of the source of his wealth, which appeared sudden to<br \/>\nthem.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>The singer said his parents didn\u2019t believe he acquired the<br \/>\nexpensive mansion with just musical earnings.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I blew up in 2019, I bought my first house in Lekki<br \/>\nand decided to gift it to my parents. I called them on the phone and asked them<br \/>\nto come and they were like, \u2018A house? That\u2019s not possible. Are you doing<br \/>\nsomething else apart from music? How did you buy a house worth millions in the<br \/>\nspace of one year?\u2019,\u201d he recalled.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Zlatan said his parents\u2019 suspicion made him feel bad because<br \/>\nhe was prioritising them and they were doubting him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>He said his parents requested for time to do a seven-day<br \/>\nprayer to know whether they should come or not.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>The rapper said he had to print his statement of account and<br \/>\npresent evidence of his music earnings before his parents accepted the house.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>He urged parents to find out the source of their children\u2019s<br \/>\nwealth before accepting flamboyant gifts from them.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/landing.mailerlite.com\/webforms\/landing\/k8u4s8\">Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianeye.com\/2021\/03\/advertise.html\"><span>Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianeye.com\/2026\/04\/my-parents-didnt-believe-my-money-came.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Popular Nigerian rapper, Zlatan Ibile has revealed that his parents\u2019 reaction to his sudden wealth wasn\u2019t warm, at first, but suspicions. Speaking in a recent episode of the YACN podcast, the Zanku crooner said after he gained prominence in 2019, he bought a house for his parents in a Lagos highbrow neighbourhood, Lekki, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":{"0":"post-902388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-podcast-music"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}