The rap artist Käärijä, who reached a wild rise with his Cha Cha Cha hit, talks about the dark side of popularity in the podcast.
The wrapper says that he had a serious conversation with his parents. Rosa Bröijer
A rapper who achieved great popularity through his wits Wrapper32, says On the Sunday Brunch podcast on the other side of the wild publicity spin. He says host Esko Eerikäinen that nowadays he often passes out in public and that he is downright paranoid.
– If I go to a public bathroom and go to take care of my needs, and if I hear that there are others in the bathroom, I sometimes stay behind the doors until I hear that there is no one else there, Käärijä says in the podcast.
– I’m learning to bravely come out of the toilet, whether there are people around or not. Those things are what I wrestle with and learn from. It might sound a bit strange, he states.
The artist’s endurance has been put to the test, and he says that he collapsed along the way. Käärijä mentions that he took the Ukraine commotion a couple of years ago hard on his European tour. A Ukrainian flag was thrown from the audience onto the stage during his performance. At the time, the artist did not recognize the flag and threw it behind the stage, after which he received nasty comments about being pro-Russia.
– I didn’t know how to handle something like that. It felt like everything I touched was somehow crumbling, he describes.
Fortunately, there is a good support network from which he gets encouragement. The wrapper says that he recently woke up to realize the realities of his situation.
– One day, I sat my father and mother down and had conversations with them and told them how I was really doing. I opened certain things to them and told them about my own feelings and problems. It felt like the house of cards was falling and I had to make a change in my life, he says.
– I want to be alive and do this. There are so many people out there who enjoy this. I want to stay on my pole because of them as well, and of course because of myself.