Priddy Ugly opens up about fatherhood, second bundle of joy and new music
Over and above his rap lines, his fans have grown to love this about him.
In fact, his relationship with his daughter, Afrika Moloi, Priddy Ugly (born Richardo Moloi) has garnered as much endearment on social media as his relationship with his wife, media personality and celebrity choreographer, Bontle Modiselle-Moloi.
The two lovebirds have been together for 16 years, married for about five years with one daughter, expecting their second bundle of joy.
Ever since their recent pregnancy announcement, Bontle has served nothing but pregnancy goals alongside her small family.
Speaking about how they approached pregnancy differently this second time around, Priddy Ugly admits to Drum that no pregnancy is the same.
'It wasn't necessarily scary, but no pregnancy is the same. With the first pregnancy, the adrenaline was high. Bontle was working. She was on the radio at the time with Scoop Makhathini and eight months into the pregnancy, Scoop didn't even know she was pregnant. That's how well we were able to hide it then.
'With this one, she started showing a lot earlier. In fact, if it had been up to us, we wouldn't have announced it even now. It still would've been a secret, the issue is that we had already been seen in public, people had started seeing us, people were stealing pictures, stealing videos, and we decided to announce it before anyone did it for us and made it their own. We were like, 'Let's control the narrative, let's make it our own, let's make it fun'. We then made a cool announcement, people loved it, and they showed us love,' he adds.
Having had Afrika at the heigh of covid, fatherhood the first time around wasn't the easiest journey for Priddy. Not only were they isolated from their families' help but Bontle was also booked and busy at the time.
In a couple of interviews, Bontle has opened up about the mom guilt she soldiered through that stemmed from needing to go back to hard-on work shortly after her daughter's birth.
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At the time, Bontle was shooting Netflix's Jiva! series which became a huge success.
'It was very difficult for Bontle. While she was pregnant, she was busy with production, and everything was put on hold because they had to wait for her. Two weeks after her birth, she had to go back to Cape Town to finish shooting. We moved to Cape Town with her so that we're close by and when she needed to go shoot, I would stay with our daughter. She'd be gone from 5am at call time and come back around 8pm, tired. But it was during this time that my bond with our daughter grew very strong till now.'
After working as hard as the couple have in the past few years for a stable future together, they now finally get to both enjoy the breeze of their second pregnancy, with less pressure from their careers.
'We recently moved into our new home. God has blessed us with so much work last year that we've gotten time to now just stay at home and spend time together as a family, bills are paid, things are covered and we're working on our next projects. I have a studio in the new house which means I can work all the time from home, we're just taking it all in, we don't have to work too much.
It may come as a surprise to many that Priddy is still making music after he came out announcing the hanging of his mic last year. In all honesty, Priddy shares the decision was a result of not seeing eye-to-eye with his management and issues arising on the business side of music. Ever since then, he's had a revelation to return to his passion.
'We've been together for so long that we do everything together on a daily basis. The management tried as much as possible to keep us apart. We had a Youtube channel, we made music together as Rick Jade and had brand collaborations we shared. But they learned that it wasn't possible to separate us so now we're finally doing the things we've been putting off since covid and do them together now,' he beams.
Excited to break the news of new music, he shares that the title sequence and songs used on Showmax's Adulting are a glimpse of his recent work. With these, he's teasing an album that could drop anytime as he awaits to welcome his second child.
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