Heavy K on growing up poor: There wasn't enough food, it killed me inside

Heavy K has once again opened up about the struggles he experienced being raised in a home where poverty was a way of life, reflecting on how it killed him inside to see his mother sacrifice to make sure her children ate.

The iNDE hitmaker has always used his experiences as a motivation to push himself and told Afternoon Express that he shared glimpses of his life growing up to inspire others to never stop dreaming.

He said he remembered his mother often going without food to make sure her kids ate.

"I come from a very poor family. My parents had so much love for me. Even when my mother was still alive, she loved me. We are a family of four, when we ate, I would see that on my mother's plate there would not be meat while the three of us would have meat. I would ask her why she didn't have meat and she would say she didn't eat meat."

It was only when he was older that he spoke to his mother about it and realised that she often didn't eat to make sure her kids did.

"It killed me inside but I am a positive person and when my mother told me that it gave me more power to chase my dreams."

Heavy K has gone on to make serious cash and recently spoilt his dad with a house and car. 

In an Instagram post, which would see any of us winning son of the year, he called it one of the proudest days of his life.