{"id":99115,"date":"2023-09-11T22:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/11\/i-lied-about-working-as-a-delivery-man-in-the-us-i-only-wanted-attention\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:09:30","slug":"i-lied-about-working-as-a-delivery-man-in-the-us-i-only-wanted-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/11\/i-lied-about-working-as-a-delivery-man-in-the-us-i-only-wanted-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"I Lied About Working As A Delivery Man In The US, I Only Wanted Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaian rapper E.L. has confessed to lying about\u00a0 working as a delivery man in the US.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-901\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-114\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz, EL confessed that he was desperate for attention and as a result he decided to pull a stunt.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-909\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, the 2016 Vodafone Ghana  Awards (VGMA) Artiste of the Year, in an interview on 3Music TV, revealed that there was a point in his life when he had to work as a food delivery guy in the US just to keep body and soul going.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-910\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-122\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He even added that his experience in the United States taught him the importance of humility.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-911\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The rapper now says all of that was make-believe and that it never happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Andy let me be very honest with you be my bro that whole thing ebi agenda we dey do. I no for do that thing but it\u2019s one of those things. In the spur of the moment sometimes you get carried away,\u201d h<\/em>e said in Pidgin.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-912\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-123\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>E.L. added that he had intentions of doing something like that but never worked as a delivery guy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Bars\u2019 rapper went ahead to apologise for the publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-913\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was more like an attention grab and I shouldn\u2019t have done it. It was also influenced by some people around me. I was fresh off the flight and I wanted to get something trending and it did trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-124\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During his first year in the university, EL signed to Jayso\u2019s Skillions Records and helped Jayso co-produce the Skillionaires Demotape.<\/p>\n<p>However, after graduating from university, the Skillions broke up and EL became a solo artist.<br \/>He acquired a studio in Asylum Down and began working on a new mixtape.<\/p>\n<p>He went as far as releasing a single, \u201cChale (So Fli)\u201d, with Jay Foley, Wolf and Kwaku T (remix). However, the mixtape was never released.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-125\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EL relocated to a better studio at Osu, and invested all his available funds in acquiring equipment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper E.L. has confessed to lying about\u00a0 working as a delivery man in the US. Speaking in an interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz, EL confessed that he was desperate for attention and as a result he decided to pull a stunt. A few months ago, the 2016 Vodafone Ghana Awards (VGMA) Artiste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Lied About Working As A Delivery Man In The US, I Only Wanted Attention - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/11\/i-lied-about-working-as-a-delivery-man-in-the-us-i-only-wanted-attention\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Lied About Working As A Delivery Man In The US, I Only Wanted Attention - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghanaian rapper E.L. has confessed to lying about\u00a0 working as a delivery man in the US. 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