Black Twitter Sympathize With Uncle Vinny Following The Passing Of Ricky Rick. Kabelo Ndlovu known to the streets as Uncle Vinny is the coolest kid who has chanelled his love for music and culture into building his brand and solidifying his name in the industry. The 20-year-old has made a name for himself, mostly for his dancing prowess, inspiring the viral #UncleVinnyChallenge even famous faces such as rapper Riky Rick joined in. Videos of him dancing at events have gone viral and his moves have become popular all over the country. Rapper Riky Rick recently shared a video mimicking Vinny’s dance moves.
Following the passing of Ricky Rick, social media users were considering how Uncle Vinny could be feeling as they were close and he even helped him enter the entertainment industry.
Speaking on how he met Ricky Rick, Vinny said: “I met Ricky at a sneaker exchange event, I got an interview with him and I then met him later in the year asking for his email address, if you don’t know Ricky you would think he is rude, he just took my phone and typed his email address and shayad bomb (kept quiet). We then started talking on a regular and I really looked up to him because he cares about the youngins and not like the other old douchebags who don’t care. He then asked me to MC at CottonFest.”
It was this realisation that inspired his hustle. A precocious kid, the teenager quickly learned how to be street smart while keeping himself out of trouble. Raised in a tough environment with rampant drug abuse, Uncle Vinny says growing up in Hillbrow taught him many lessons.“You have to focus to make your life better and remove your parents from that cycle of poverty. If you don’t work hard, there is nothing that is going to come to you. There is no life for you without hard work,” he said.
The eldest of three kids, Uncle Vinny was born and bred in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, although his parents hail from Kwa-Zulu Natal’s south coast. “Growing up in Hillbrow was nice, but obviously when you are growing up as a kid you can’t see what’s happening in the hood,” he says. “You think everything is peaceful, but as you grow up you realise: ‘This is not the life for me.’”
