Do you think teachers favor famous pupils? Ugandan teen rapper Fresh Kid UG, who is a school prefect, says that's not the case. The 12-year-old claims that his position was earned through a vigorous campaign and vote. Fresh Kid UG, who spoke with our teen reporter who visited his school, talks about his music, studies, and also addresses his haters. #GirlZOffMute #77Percent #DWAfrica
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00:23Perfect here at your school. Yeah was the position given to you because because of your fame or not like
00:30This
00:32Perfect ship. It's it had to be like for a long process
00:36I registered my name and we had to go for nominations. I went and did my campaign and
00:41then
00:42After campaigns it was well in time. I voted for myself
00:45I voted for some other people my friends and I had more voice than my other friends
00:51So that's how I become the perfect. Do you believe that you're a good leader? Of course. I
00:57Believe I live here at school and even outside I live in my in like the young musicians
01:04So now that you are a star and a perfect are you rude to the students or do they like you?
01:10I'm not true to anyone. I treat them equally and I make sure that I
01:16Do my duties well, so that's yeah, they can like be proud of what I've done
01:22Do the students like you yeah, they like me and some other people don't like me
01:26So yeah, that's not because no one is not like everyone is gonna like you. Yeah
01:31Yeah, usually when you become a leader, you're going to get haters
01:34Even if even if another leader even if they're just me like anyone like just normally it's not like everyone is gonna like
01:42Even me like I have some people that I don't like that. They never did anything to me. So it's like it's just no
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01:53Am how does it feel being being in the same school with a celebrity?
01:59It feels nice good, and it's my first time being friends with us. How did you become friends with Patrick since P3?
02:07I've been friends with Patrick and we have been in the same class and
02:11In the same house and when you always play football, we're always playing the same team. What do you like about him?
02:17He's kind cool friendly and he helped me in some stuff like doing work and also I help him
02:25He's also friendly. Yeah, what's a bit error? What do you like about fresh kid? He's bright and
02:30He's calm. He's patient. He's everything and he performs well fresh kid
02:36What's that one thing that you've always been able to achieve since your music career began?
02:42There are many things that I've been able to achieve like I've got a school because yeah, I come here and battery
02:47It gets me money and even more friends. So yeah, those are the biggest things that I'm very proud of
02:54What message do you have for the kids who I admire you?
02:57They love you and they would also like to develop their talents just like you did
03:03Like mostly like to keep on working believe in yourself
03:06Believe you can do it because everything is possible and just keep praying and following your dream
03:16As we've learned from fresh kids story
03:19Hard work and discipline pay off. We are the girls of mute wishing the best of luck in his career. I am Mata signing out
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