Cassper Nyovest opens up his battle with covid-19. South African rapper Cassper Nyovest opened up about he got covid-19 and how it felt. Cassper said even though he was complying to lockdown regulations he still contracted the virus.

He opened up about his covid-19 experience while he was a virtual guest on US radio personality Koko Ebro’s show on Monday night. Cassper shared about the concept behind his new album which is doing fairly well at the moment Any Minute now and he also shared how he got infected. “At first it was a scary part where we stayed home and then I started training. I’m training for this boxing fight. The training was hectic and just at the peak of my fitness, I contracted Covid-19.

“The weirdest thing is everybody was social distancing and everything that we’re told to do, but somehow I caught it. If I wasn’t called by the person who contracted it, I wouldn’t have known. I just had a little headache, I thought it was from sparring. I thought someone hit my head too hard. I went and got tested and I found out I was positive .”Cass said he then isolated for 14 days, and his hardest challenge was on the seventh day, when he had a hectic fever.

“My body was all over the place. I was hot and cold at the same time. I was sweating and when I’d take off my clothes I’d get cold. That’s the one day I remember being challenged. Probably seven days later I was back running in the streets.”

Although he was up and running again, the rapper said on the first day he could feel his chest “wasn’t all the way okay”, but explained that Covid-19 wasn’t like normal flu.

“I didn’t have all the symptoms but it definitely felt worse than just flu, like people say it is. That’s how it affected me personally. As an artist, it took away my livelihood.

“It took away jobs from people who are around me, but I made a decision to still pay my employees even though nobody was working.”