Popular singer, Akinbiyi Ahmed known as Bella Shmurda has disclosed he dropped out of the Lagos State University (LASU) to pursue his music career.
The 24-year-old in a post on Twitter said he does not regret making the decision.
The music star made the comments while celebrating 550 million streams on music charts.
He said he would have been broke and struggling with carryover if he didn’t drop out of school.
His tweet read, “Thank God I was stubborn and I never got to pass those exams then. Big thanks to Pocolee for telling me to do that vision2020 viral video, shoutout to Olamide for his listening ears and open hands for upcoming acts.”
“I now worth over half a billion streams (550millions streams to be precise).
I for still Dey LASU dey wine and dine with carryovers and stranded with nothing in my pocket… forever glad I did my thing.”
Bella went viral after the release of his debut single ‘Vision 2020’ after he featured Olamide in the remix version.
He has since released hit songs like Cash App featuring Zlatan.
Bella Shmurda also got nominated for the Headies Award for the next rated artiste in 2020.