Mejja came from a humble background to make it big in the music industry. The rapper really had a tough life growing up in the slums of Nyeri.
Mejja recently opened up about his childhood life revealing that his family was shoved into poverty following the death of his grandmother.
“In primary school, we had a good life as my grandmother was well off. Soon after she died it was made known to us that my mother was not her biological daughter. So the family was against my mother inheriting any property. To make matters worse, my mother was having constant headaches and we didn’t know she had a tumour as we had no money to visit a specialist,” Mejja narrated.
Mejja speaks on his deadbeat father who made him adopt a female name
The Genge rapper was forced to do all sort of odds jobs to make ends meet. He worked as a hawker and a cleaner at a hotel.
“I did many odd jobs including selling groundnuts. Touched by my plight, an empathetic man gave me a job cleaning his hotel in exchange for lunch,” said Mejja.
Mejja developed interest in music while watching his elder brother rap. He started writing songs as he went about selling khat at night.
“My interest in music started after watching my elder brother rapping. I started imitating his flow and realized that my peers liked it and the girls were smitten. I started writing music- at the time, I had a job selling mogoka at night.”
Mejja’s big break came as he was performing at Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi in a music competition. Calif Record’s boss Clemmo noticed his talent and decided to sign him.
“I came to Nairobi to perform at Uhuru Gardens and that’s when Clemmo noticed me. He took my number and said he wanted to record the song, I had just performed (jana kuliendaje). After six months, Clemmo called me and welcomed me to his home. Clemmo is one of the people who connected me to my dreams,” Mejja said.
