I Dropped Out Of School When I Was 16 – Cassper Nyovest

For Cassper Nyovest, US star Kanye West is a huge inspiration.

He has said he was always a fan of Kanye West, after finding similarities in their careers.

“Kanye—College Dropout. Like, my whole believing in dreams came from that album, you know? He’s a dropout—I dropped out when I was 16 as well—and I opened my own record label, and for me to be out here years later and still doing it, and still making history—all comes from believing in myself and being such a believer in God as welI because of “Jesus Walks”—not because of “Jesus Walks” but—I just really—I really related to his aura at that moment, you know what I’m saying? So, he’s been a very great inspiration all my life, and just being someone who stands out—not afraid to be yourself, even though people judge you or whatever—and always just breaking boundaries, like—Kanye has been a very great inspiration to me. ” The South African rappper said.

He aslo talked about the name of his album.

“All my albums I name after family members. my first album was named Tsholofelo, which is my little sister because she gave me her last like, lunch money for me to travel to the big city of Johannesburg when i started this rap thing. So I named the album after her just to let her know that I didn’t forget the sacrifice she made. My second album was titled Refiloe, which is my name, and that’s the sequence that we were born in—so my little sister and then me, and then my eldest sister Thuto. I had an older brother who passed on—I’ll probably— that’ll probably be my last album—the day I make my last album. “