Checkout 5 Nigerian musicians who have a side hustle making them millions apart from music – No 2 is surprising

Side hustle: Back in the day, there was a worrisome trend among Nigerian artistes. Those who were in the limelight and considered to be rich because they are the ‘rave of the moment’ would become broke just a few years after no longer being in the limelight.

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The sad trend would be amplified should a life threatening ailment befall such artiste or his standard of living became quite deplorable. Then our internet would be filled with cries for help and claims about how the industry is unfair and does not recognize the contributions of the said artiste to it’s growth.

Thankfully, this is fast becoming a thing of the past. The new generation of artistes have taken heed to the advice of getting a side hustle. Music might be paying the bills but these artistes have used some of that money to invest in businesses that would supplement the moneys they make from music. Infact it now seems that once an artiste makes it with music, they never again go broke in their life time.

We went digging to find out the side hustles of some of these Nigerian musicians some of them you may know already, some might just be as surprising to you.

Here are 5 Nigerian musicians who have got a paying side hustle apart from the music:

1. Eldee The Don

Eldee is a long time Nigerian rapper who relocated to faraway United States for greener pastures.

Side hustle: Playdata. Play data is a an online technology that keeps track of the amount of times a particular song gets played on radio. This helps artistes and radio advertisers to track revenues. Playdata is also the source of data used in some online music charts on popular websites in Nigeria.

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