Kenyan rapper Toxic Lyrikali is celebrating career success by financially supporting his mother's retirement and recounting a near-fatal knife attack he survived. His music career, which took off in 2024, has enabled him to move his mother out of Nairobi's Kayole estate.

• Toxic Lyrikali enabled his mother to retire fully after his career's breakthrough in 2024.
• The rapper also survived a violent knife attack in Kiamaiko, where his associates were hospitalized.
• During the Kiamaiko incident, Toxic Lyrikali sustained a hand injury while disarming an attacker.