Zuby (rapper)

Zuby (born Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue on 19 August 1986[1]) is a British rapper, podcast, and ebook author. He was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England and raised in Saudi Arabia .

Biography

Zuby grew up in Saudi Arabia . He has been a host of the podcast Real Talk with Zuby since 2019.

In July of 2008 Zuby was ordered to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested by police at gunpoint at Bournemouth station in Dorset, because he was mistaken for a suspect wanted in an alleged armed incident in Basingstoke.[2] The incident was described as a "shocking case of mistaken identity"[3], and he was released shortly thereafter.[4][5]

In March 2019, Zuby garnered worldwide attention by posting a video in which he claimed to have broken the British Women's deadlift record of 238kg (528 pounds). Zuby claimed that he "identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight". Zuby later declared on Twitter that he "took the UK women's bench press record too".[6][7][8][9][10] He stated that "I don't think trans women should be allowed to compete in women's sport."[11] He has been interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience, BBC, Fox News, Sky News, the Adam Carolla Show, the Rubin Report, the Candace Owens Show, and the The Ben Shapiro Show.[12][13][14] In July 2019 he was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for his opinion on race-based ticket prices to a Detroit music festival.[15]

Zuby occasionally does the paper review for Sky News .

Discography

Albums


Studio albums
Title Album details
The Unknown Celebrity
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: C.O.M. Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, mp3
Commercial Underground 2
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: C.O.M. Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, mp3
Perseverance: The Best of Zuby
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: C.O.M. Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, LP, mp3
gollark: I've actually had to rewrite some item-handling parts of wyvern to make the storage run fast enough.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: Your printer now takes up basically the entire room.
gollark: <@202992030685724675> Terra1
gollark: PotatOS now handles fs.find properly; oops.

References
  1. "Rapper traumatised by gun arrest". 9 July 2008 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. "How a T-shirt led to rapper Zuby's gunpoint arrest". Bournemouth Echo.
  3. Lewis, Paul (9 July 2008). "Commuter arrested by armed police in Bournemouth thought he had stepped 'into a bad dream'" – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. "Rapper traumatised by gun arrest". 9 July 2008 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  5. Correspondent, Richard Edwards, Crime (9 July 2008). "Oxford graduate Zuby held at gunpoint by police at Bournemouth station" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  6. "Male rapper identifying as female, declares he broke female deadlift record". wqad.com.
  7. "'Ok dude': Twitter suspends rapper Zuby for 'hateful' tweet at transgender antifa activist". Washington Examiner. 27 February 2020.
  8. Urwin, Rosamund. "Rapper Zuby identifies as female to smash weightlifting record" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  9. "'Trans women shouldn't be allowed to compete in women's sport'". Sky News.
  10. "I became a woman to break the women's deadlift record". www.spiked-online.com.
  11. "'Trans women shouldn't be allowed to compete in women's sport'". Sky News. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  12. "ZUBY: Rapper & Creative Entrepreneur". Zuby Official Site.
  13. "Zuby and Jeff Cesario". 13 September 2019.
  14. "Listen to the Your Superior Self Episode - Perseverance- Zuby Musician/Author on iHeartRadio". iHeartRadio. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  15. "Detroit music festival removes race-based ticket prices - CBC News". CBC. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.