Singer, Small Doctor, has opened up to media personality, Ebuka Uchendu on his days as a bus conductor in the financial city of Lagos.
While talking in an interview on a Channels TV show, ‘Rubbin Minds’ with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, popular singer, Small Doctor, who is well known for his hit jam ‘Penalty’, revealed that he was a bus conductor for almost 10 years.
The Lagos-based singer whose real name is Temitope Adekunle opened up on his days as a bus conductor & an upcoming artiste in the city of Lagos.
“I had recorded my first single,” he told Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, anchor of the show.
Had a very interesting live #RubbinMinds interview with Small Doctor yesterday.
Hear him talk about his days as a bus conductor and okada rider. pic.twitter.com/c4tNSAZ2tn— Ebuka Obi-Uchendu (@Ebuka) May 21, 2018
“I had been gaining airplay in my hood back then. Agege, Ogba, all those places. But person no fit just stand dey believe say dem go dey call you for show.
“Those times sef, if you’re opportuned to be on the stage you go beg with the fact that they’ve been playing the song all the while. So I just needed to have some other things to just keep the ball going.”
Small Doctor made it clear that regardless of his immediate achievement in his neighbourhood, he had to make a living, revealing his normal bus routes in Lagos.
Small Doctor speaks on being a father.#RubbinMinds pic.twitter.com/wgYAVqwVp3
— Ebuka Obi-Uchendu (@Ebuka) May 21, 2018
“I was a conductor for years, almost a decade,” he said. “From Agege to Ikeja, Ikeja to Maryland, Maryland to Yaba.
“I shuttled that place for like three to four years. I moved to Oshodi to Mushin under bridge. So it was from Oshodi to Mushin, Mushin to Oshodi I spent like six to seven years.”
When asked about the current state of his former bus driver, the singer replied by saying, “I have done the needful”.