Nigerian rapper<\/strong>, Jeremiah Chukwuebuka Ani, popularly known as Jeriq, has said music saved him from going to prison.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Jeriq, in a candid interview with YouTuber The Smallie, recounted being arrested multiple times by law enforcement agencies for various offences.<\/p>\n The Enugu-born rapper explained that music distracted him from vices because he would have probably been in prison.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI have been arrested multiple times by law enforcement agencies due to vices. If you look at my hands and legs, you will see scars of handcuffs. Anti-cult, police have all arrested me before.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThank God for music. If not for music, I would probably be in prison by now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking about the struggles he faced when he first came to Lagos to advance his career, Jeriq said there were no opportunities to meet artists, and securing collaborations was challenging.<\/p>\n The rapper also expressed confidence that he would gain international recognition through rapping in his native language, Igbo.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cThe first time I came to Lagos, then I wasn\u2019t popping so I didn\u2019t any opportunity to meet artists. If was difficult to collaborate with any artist then because I was still upcoming.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHowever, things changed we I came back in 2021 and I was able to do a collaborative EP with Dremo titled \u2018East and West\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigerian rapper, Jeremiah Chukwuebuka Ani, popularly known as Jeriq, has said music saved him from going to prison. Abia Radio News reports that Jeriq, in a candid interview with YouTuber The Smallie, recounted being arrested multiple times by law enforcement agencies for various offences. The Enugu-born rapper explained that music distracted him from vices because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":239794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[772,2788,2789],"class_list":["post-239793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-jeriq","tag-nigeria-rapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jeriq-559x340-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}