When Hulme-born, Gorton-raised rapper OneDa was living in her car, it wasn’t even a low point in her life. She had just come out as gay, was a single mum with a young daughter and had very suddenly found herself with nowhere to go. “But I was happy,” she says. “Because I knew what was coming.”
OneDa, real name Onye Ezeh, was also in the first year of her Masters degree at the time. For most people, the timing would have been catastrophic. But not for her.
“Say you’re going on a journey to London on the motorway. You know you’re going to London, because you’re seeing signs, it’s telling you how many miles are left,” she says. “But if there was an accident, suddenly, on the motorway, you wouldn’t think ‘s**t’, I’m never ever going to reach London’. The accident will clear up in a few hours, and you’ll get there.
