Fame has made me matured and Tough – Yaw Tog

Award-winning Ghanaian Rapper, Thorsten Owusu Gyimah, well known by the stage name Yaw Tog, has shared that fame has made him tough and matured.

Speaking in an exclusive with Yaw Mawutor Fianu on Class FM’s Drive Time, the ‘Sore’ hitmaker revealed that fame has made him learn quite a number of things about life.

He made this statement when he was asked how fame had changed him.

“Tough! It’s made me learn plenty of things about life. Fame has made me mature. There is a whole lot that comes with fame. You get to meet people…..disappointments….. a whole lot so… It’s good,” he said.

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Yaw Tog further noted when he first recognised he was receiving increasing attention, including a Billboard article about him, “I was overwhelmed”. However, as time went on, he told himself the fame will come and go and so carried on with his life.

Being “the shy type,” the cronner divulged that his rise to fame was a big surprise to everyone around him, including his mother, when at 18 he got into showbiz and in fact made a hit song.

Yaw revealed that he mainly invested the money he made following his coming to prominence on the back of his Sore with the Asakaa Boys and Sore Remix with Stormzy and Kwesi Arthur.

“I was calm, I was just investing,” he said. “I don’t like to spend a lot.” He revealed his album, Young and Matured, will be out March 2024, and it has Highlife and other genres of music apart from the Asakaa he is famous for.

“I had to release the album last year but one or two things stopped me. It’s been a lot but next year, we’re dropping it… Say less,” he averred.