Lil Maina Reflects on Grandfather’s Passing: ‘I Smiled in Disbelief’

Lil Maina Reflects on Grandfather's Passing: 'I Smiled in Disbelief'

The musician Lil Maina has opened up about how he was taken aback by his grandfather’s passing saying after he heard the news, he even smiled because he found it hard to believe.

This occurred after he overslept on D-day, the day he was supposed to visit his grandfather. Maina through his YouTube channel explained that everything seemed unreal after his cousin broke the sad news and that the only memory he had was of his grandfather letting him use his car.

“It was 4 pm on Sunday my cousin came and told me Babu had gone, I didn’t cry I was just chilled… Iyo process like me processing that, I was like okay, I didn’t cry it was very unreal,” Maina said.

Lil Maina admitted that he felt lost after his grandfather’s burial. He acknowledged that he did not give himself time to heal and even went on to perform in the shoke shoke event when Ayra Star showed up in the country. It was such a hard time for him.

“I was very lost and people couldn’t inform me that I was lost except my mom, I was giving myself time to heal, I was going to the studio, I wanted to keep things going and I even performed at shoke shoke, a week after tumezika Babu in a real sense I was hurting myself and it was very weird that was such a tough time for me.”

In April, he came to terms with the fact that his granddad was gone forever. Lil Maina often experienced emotional flashbacks about his late grandfather, which would leave him in tears. The 20th of each month was especially difficult, and he even found himself dreaming about his granddad.

Kila 20th nilikuwa nalia and apart from crying babu would appear kwa dreams zangu, but shosho told me that was not a good thing and I was ignorant but it turns out it’s not a good thing.”

He concluded advising people to people to learn to let go and focus on the future.

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