I Can’t Even Enjoy My Wins Because Nothing Is Ever Enough – Adekunle Gold

Popular singer, Adekunle Gold has come out to open up about how hard he works on his music.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he has not taken a rest since he released his debut album, and he doesn’t even know what it feels like to enjoy his wins because nothing is ever enough.

Adekunle added that he had multiple 9-5s, as well as freelance jobs as a graphics designer, but music was always the end game.

His words, “From what I can remember, there were no examples around me of what I wanted to become. I knew there was more for me to be, and I wanted it. So when I finished secondary school, the chase began.

I l earned a degree in Art and Industrial Design at Laspotech (I know the name has changed now), but it wasn’t enough. So I learned Photography and became the ‘King of Photoshop’.

I had multiple 9-5s, as well as freelance jobs as a graphics designer. But it wasn’t enough. I started a branding company, and clearly it wasn’t enough.

You would think I had my hands too full for music, but a lot of my income was fueling that passion that nobody really knew I had at the time. Music was always my end game. And when I got my break, you’d think that it would be enough, but it wasn’t.

For every win I had, I was chasing 10 more. I didn’t know what it felt like to enjoy my wins. I didn’t know how to stop. And sometimes, to breathe, to be in the moment, to live, you have to pause and take a look at your wins.

As dramatic as it sounds, I haven’t rested since the ‘Gold’ Album. Of all the people who have called me out for being too serious, Deja’s voice has been the loudest. I have made a pact with myself (the 22nd one) to relax and enjoy more, be more in the moment, to let my hair down (I cut it all off sha). I am a being, not a machine I’m supposed to be.

Her (Deja) words got me thinking; how does my four-year-old know to say this? It felt like my daughter was telling me to live a little. Many people have thrown my seriousness in my face over the years, and I have not taken it very seriously (pun intended). But to hear my daughter echo the same sentiment to me, unprovoked, it made me wonder.

My dad was a very strict man. He rarely laughed with us, and when he did, it felt like it was a better day than usual. I wonder if it’s genetic.”

WOW.