DJ Cuppy bows to pressure

For popular disc jockey and singer, Florence Otedola, otherwise known as DJ Cuppy, music has become a tiring job that daily saps her energy and gives her nothing or less in return. From all indications, Cuppy may have started plotting her retirement from the music scene anytime from now.

DJ Cuppy, who is the daughter of Nigeria’s billionaire and oil mogul, Femi Otedola, has come under heavy criticisms from different quarters in the last three years but the hardworking singer’s feather has remained unruffled.

But while it may seem like the criticisms mean nothing to the singer, the stress of going to the studio to make new songs, keeping up with trends and performances appear to be taking its toll on the Gelato crooner.

From the look of things, she may have finally bowed to the pressure from her fans, who have consistently asked her to leave music and put her energy and money into something more profitable and engaging.

Days back, during one of her radio rounds for the promotion of her new song, Gelato, which featured famous rapper, Zlatan, the successful DJ hinted that music was actually becoming too stressful for her, adding that she might just retire from it and face her DJ life.

Speaking during an interview session on City 105.1 FM, DJ Cuppy said she missed her DJ days where she didn’t have to go through stress of recording songs, even as she maintained that she had been stressed too much over the last three years.

“I am so stressed. I am already thinking of retiring from music and focus on just being a DJ. At this point, I am committed to music and I just want to have a body of work there and quit. I don’t have to be here for a long time. I want to have a body of work. I know I can do it, but sometimes, it is good to just do what you want to do and leave it there,” she said.

She added that those who have recorded and released about 10 albums are still there struggling.

“I don’t mean to disrespect anyone but even those who have 10 albums to their names don’t have it all. Don’t get me wrong, I am committed to music but I can’t just do it for a long time because it is stressing me. I was speaking with my team some days back and I heard some not very nice things from there,” she said.