Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue (born 19 August 1986), better known by his stage name Zuby, is a Nigerian-English rapper and podcaster.
Born to Nigerian parents in Luton, Udezue was raised in Saudi Arabia and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
[4][5] Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue was born to parents of Nigerian descent in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, on 19 August 1986.
[6][7][8][9] His father is a doctor and a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and his mother a journalist.
[11][12] When Udezue was a year old, his parents moved to Saudi Arabia, where they worked for two decades, and he attended an international school.
[13][14] Between 2004 and 2007, he studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree in computer science.
[13] In 2006, while at university, Udezue started rapping under the name Zuby and independently released his debut album Commercial Underground, which he says sold over 3,000 copies.
[19] After graduating, he moved to London, and in August 2008 he worked there as a management consultant for Accenture while continuing to make music.
[6] Earlier in 2022, he spoke at a Mises Caucus event at the Libertarian Party convention in Reno, Nevada, where he "talk[ed] about freedom, liberty, and all of that good stuff.
On 5 July 2008,[26] at 3:49 pm, a man displayed an imitation firearm at an indoor shopping centre in Basingstoke; afterwards, Hampshire Constabulary distributed a description of him.
[1] At 5:24 pm the same day, Udezue boarded a train from Southampton to Bournemouth, which is about 30 miles (48 km) from Basingstoke.
[1][29] Udezue, who is of Nigerian heritage, thought his race was not pivotal to the incident, but should still be considered a part of any investigation.
[5] Udezue went on to say he posted the tweets to demonstrate the "fallacies of the arguments on the other side" and commented: "I have seen people saying there is no inherent biological strength difference between men and women.
[4] Outsports criticized an article about the tweet on WQAD-TV's website as "one-sided" and "transphobic"; in response, WQAD rewrote parts of its article, changing "informally breaks female dead-lift record" to "declares he broke female deadlift record" in the headline, describing the tweet as "trolling the debate of transgender people competing in athletic events", and adding a quote from Outsports' managing editor: "Just deciding on a whim that Zuby says he's identifying as a woman, that's not how it works".
[36] Udezue responded with "Ok dude...", which according to The Washington Examiner, resulted in his Twitter account being temporarily suspended for "hateful conduct".
[36][37] In September 2020, Udezue, together with other notable figures, signed a letter in support of author J. K. Rowling's views on transgender people.