JURIKID (Hip-hop Artist)

                                                                     

Samuel Opoku porpularly known with the stage name, JURIKID was born in Jamestown on April, 25^th 1993.  The name JURIkID is a combination of two separate words; “JURY” and “KID”. Jury as in, panel of judges, and KID as a young dude. So in joining the two, JURIKID gives a clear meaning; a young Rapper who decides for other rappers.

Jurikid is a young independent Hip-Hop artist with about 15 to 20 songs and is still working on a new mixtape. Though he is young, he has been able to work so hard with engeneers like Skriim from Cameroon, DN from Newtown, Abowch from get busy studios, kid dyno from USA and Nii Ayi from E.N.D Sudios. He has also worked with other artistes like Pagez, Rules, Leak, Kay, Willy j Voiceout, Flow, Deenash, Nature and Dee from Ghana. Jordan York, Check Mate, The fool Boys from USA and Ice pik from UK are also other artist outside the country Jurikid has worked with.

Jurikid started writing his own songs in 2007 and did his first recording in 2010. Jurikid related to most of the songs he grew up listening to and those songs happened to be hip-hop. The struggle, the pain, the disappointment from family and friends grew almost everyday and all he had left was songs from Andrea 3000, T.i and jay z. “Hip-hop has been there for me through the good and bad times and i feel that’s where i belong. I will find it hard rapping about parties and afro beat songs because i have not really been there”, he said. He is doing hip-hop because it’s a good culture and he wants to help it grow like it should, here in Ghana and the rest of Africa.

Jurikid’s principle in life is to plan ahead, take risk and do or try doing all by oneself and his advice to the other young independent artists like him should present what they are doing from their hearts and put focus on money last or aside. love God, respect and hardwork is what they need most.