Ex Black Stars winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie has decided to quit football at the prime age of 33 to pursue music.
The former Arsenal player has already released a solo mix tape and will go by the stage name, Blow.
Blow, has apparently been recording for years and focuses his rap on his Dutch neighbourhood of Biljmermeer, where he used to see drug-taking and crime on a daily basis as a child.
Quincy says his stage name,Blow, generated from the fact that he used to “blow all his money” leading a “flashy lifestyle”.
The cover-art of his new EP, titled New Chapter, shows Quincy seated with an Arsenal shirt hung up with “Quincy 54” on the back.
Speaking in an interview Owusu-Abeyie said; “I have thought about it for a long time.
“Now that I am releasing my first solo mix tape, I want to show the world: this is me. This is what I am doing now.
“There was no Ronald de Boer type around in our neighbourhood who said ‘With football you have a future’.
“My role models were the money makers of the block. The street men driving around in horrible cars. “That was then the s*** for me, later I grew older and I made other choices.
“I hope to make the people from the neighbourhood proud. First as a footballer and now as an artist.”
