Lessons from the Brief Wondrous Life of Da Grin.

1. Chase Your Dream
Even a five year old knows what s/he wants from life, but it’s one thing to want something, it’s another thing to follow through. It is a popular misnomer that you must have all the ingredients and qualifications you need to get want you. Not necessary!

Da Grin is a quintessential. He did not attend any university to learn how to spit solid lyrics like he did in his lifetime.


2. Try Again
You might not get it right the first time and the sooner you get that caveat into your head, the sooner you understand the import of doing things again, be it the same way.

Still on the matter, Da Grin’s first effort could be discarded as ineffectual and if he had let it rest there, he probably would never have achieved the starling success of his second effort, the classic C.E.O album.

3. Stay on Point
And after you have done it right the first time. You must make a habitual repeat of success in every endeavour. This must be your rule of thumb.

C.E.O, hopefully, would not be the last we would hear from Da Grin, especially as his death occasioned the release of his “Before I die”. Easily he becomes the artist who foresaw his death and this is mastery, however you want to regard it.

4. Dont Drink and Drive
Life is short; it has no duplicate. This, perhaps, is the most important lesson from Da Grin’s life. No one is totally sure if it is his inebriation that led to the fatal car crash.
But there is something about fate catching up with you especially if you make a habit of drinking and driving,
most especially on Nigerian roads which, of course, have not earned the asphaltic right to be reffered to as such.Blame it on the politicians.
It is instructional that if you must drink you should have a spare teetotaller driver, so you can spare your life from death’s bludgeon.

5. Always wear a Grin.
Da Grin would be remembered for a whole lot. For his attitude to life, for his attitude to his craft, for his humor which, i think, is important to any artist.

The joy and fondness that comes from the way he portrayed himself in pictures would endear him to many, and many more.