Controversial Nigerian singer, Speed Darlington, has stated that the time he spent in the United States took away his self-confidence as a black man.<\/p>\n
Darlington disclosed this in a recent video on social media.<\/p>\n
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He lamented that all he got from his 23 years in the United States is criminal records.<\/p>\n
Comparing his achievements in Nigeria to the US, he stated that he built his mansion with the money he made in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cAmerica did not favor me. I have access to the USA but I don\u2019t want to be there all the time. America no favor me and I\u2019m not ashamed to say it. The only thing I have is criminal records, arrest, arrest, arrest, arrest is all I got from the USA.<\/em><\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cSo, after 23 years, I told myself it\u2019s better for me to have access to America. I can go whenever I want to see my family for maybe 10 days, one week or 4 days, and I will turn around and return. Because American society is not conducive for my mental and physical well-being. In America, my self confidence is in the gutter. I can\u2019t even talk to girls, I lack confidence whenever I\u2019m in America. I\u2019m always lonely. If I spend 9 months or two years, I will be lonely throughout, which means endless masturbation. It gets tiring.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf I want to talk to a girl, firstly I\u2019m worried about my accent. Is she going to laugh at me? Am I adequate? American society has an atmosphere where a black man is nothing and he has to over prove himself before he can get any respect. This is not how I want to live my life. While here I amount to something. Everybody is black and dark skinned. All these things are what I\u2019m thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI love having access to the US anytime I want but my mansion money with swimming pool on top came from Nigerian. That fight I had with Portable was how I finished my mansion decking. That money helped me very well. That fight did not take place in Las Vegas, it took place in Lagos, Nigeria. It is better to be in a forest climbing trees and be free than to be in a center of everything and being caged. I did not leave America with money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement\n<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Controversial Nigerian singer, Speed Darlington, has stated that the time he spent in the United States took away his self-confidence as a black man. Darlington disclosed this in a recent video on social media. Story continues below advertisement He lamented that all he got from his 23 years in the United States is criminal records. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":240349,"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":[192],"class_list":["post-240348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-speed-darlington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Speed-Darlington.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240348","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=240348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}