Houston rapper and actor\u00a0Tobe Nwigwe is having some fun with\u00a0celebrity friends after challenging them to pronounce his full Nigerian name.<\/p>\n
Nwigwe was joined by his mother in an Instagram post on Thursday, in which they both judged videos of his friends attempting to pronounce his full Nigerian name correctly, with some passing and others failing. Some celebrities who took on the challenge included NBA All-Star Stephen Curry, Grammy winner Erykah Badu, Australian singer-songwriter Sia and Nigerian-American mixed martial artist Kamaru Usman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As each celebrity took a turn pronouncing “Tobechukwu Dubem Nwigwe,” the artist and his mother either\u00a0said “correct” or burst into laughter.<\/p>\n
“how did my people do,” Nwigwe wrote\u00a0on Instagram.<\/p>\n
While the challenge is lighthearted, it also highlights something deeply personal for Nwigwe. He has long embraced his Nigerian heritage in his music and public persona, and the video playfully underscores the importance of learning to correctly pronounce names that reflect people’s cultural identities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a foot injury ended his football career at the University of North Texas,\u00a0Nwigwe has emerged as one of Houston’s most recognizable independent hip-hop artists, earning a Grammy nomination and acting roles in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and Netflix’s “Mo” while continuing to spotlight his family, faith and Houston roots in his work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nwigwe has released\u00a0several full-length albums since his 2017 debut, “Tobe from the SWAT.”<\/p>\n
He\u00a0announced his upcoming album,\u00a0“The Bridge,” on June 29. The project is expected to feature\u00a0artists including Busta Rhymes, Labrinth, Jay Electronica, Scarface and Paul Wall.<\/p>\n
The album is set for release Aug. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston rapper and actor\u00a0Tobe Nwigwe is having some fun with\u00a0celebrity friends after challenging them to pronounce his full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-384319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}