Jidenna, a Nigerian-American singer and rapper, has admitted to robbing “some women of their baby-making years.”
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Jidenna admitted to manipulating several women in the first episode of the What’s Underneath: Masculinity podcast.
Despite his unfair treatment of those women, the ‘Classic Man’ singer claims they “built” him.
“I robbed some women of their baby-making years,” he said. They dragged them along and built me up. Look at me and then at them.
“If you were a creative, I folded you into my artwork. If you were in my artwork, I gave you a job. I mastered your life. I gave a house, food, everything you need. I protected and provided for you. I did what men are supposed to do.
“I remember different quotes I said like just like really manipulated things to say like, ‘No one is going to love you the way I do.’ Oh my God! I’m ashamed of it.”
He said he regretted his actions, stressing that it breaks his heart whenever he sees men manipulating women the way he did.
Jidenna vowed that the next relationship that “I would get in, I will work as hard at love as I worked in my career”.