Home sick and exhausted: Black Coffee reveals the grim side of fame

So you want to be famous‚ hey? Well‚ Black Coffee might want to have a word.

The DJ is known around the world as one of the brightest musical talents but despite having the world at his feet (and in his passport) the DJ has revealed the dark side of the fame game.

In a candid Instagram post recently‚ Black Coffee lifted the lid on some of the struggles he’s been having lately.

“I miss home. Traveling the world on tour looks like the most coolest job ever...the job itself is such a blessing doing what I love with all my soul for a living....but the traveling hours‚the fatigue‚ lack of sleep‚ lack of good diet and exhaustion got the best of me this week‚” he wrote.

He explained that last week was “the hardest” for him and said that at one point he even lost his passport. It was all too much for the DJ and he “literally shut down.”

“I felt emotionally and physically drained....enslaved by my own dreams at my own will....I didn’t know where exactly I was and what time it was due to lack of sleep....I literally shut down...and had to sit and do nothing for a while to get it all together‚” he recounted.

And even though he might write it off as a bad week‚ Black Coffee suggested there may be a lesson for all South African entertainers in it.

“The picture is bigger and it is to change the story of my father and all the other fathers like him..it is to reverse the cycle...change the South African music industry story.”

“’This journey is not easy but it is the journey to greatness so I will pick myself up and go on‚” he wrote.