By Benjamin Njoku

Ruggedman has dismissed the notion that the music industry has left him behind, revealing that the changing times in the country really affected his career.

Ruggedman made this clarification, while featuring in this week’s episode of #With Chude.

Dismissing the notion,Ruggedman who began his music career in 1999, after dropping two singles, ‘Gwo-gwo’ and ‘What If’, featuring Paul Play Dairo, who also produced the singles argues that nobody reigns forever.

“The industry didn’t leave me behind. Things changed, music changed, production changed, and that was exactly what happened to me.

“What happens is that you come out, God gives you the big ‘blow’, you become famous. Nobody reigns forever. I knew that nobody reigns forever, so the best thing you can do for yourself as an entertainer and in life is that you make the best of it.

“Build the bridges you can build, invest. Although I didn’t invest, because there was nobody around me who could have advised me when I was coming up,” the rapper asserted. .

Going down memory lane, the veteran singer recalls how he began his career, saying “When I was coming up, I was a rapper before I delved into acting.

He continued: “I have a radio show, and I have a character that I created in skit making. I have always acted, my first feature in a movie was before I became Ruggedman. This was from 1993 to 1995, with the late Francis Agu. He used to live on my street in Akoka. I woke up one morning and asked myself ‘what haven’t I done’, and acting was one of the things that came to mind. I spoke to him about it, and he invited me for an audition.” He also recalled how he featured in movies like Jim Iyke’s “No Bad Comment”, and Toyin Abraham’s “0Ghost and The Tout too.”