Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend has been one of the most talked about gossips and rumors in Hollywood ever since the Kenya-raised actress was catapulted to super stardom. Despite claims that the 31-year-old actress is dating Jared Leto, several news sites managed to probe deeper into Lupita's dating antics and found out that she actually has a boyfriend. And it is not Jared Leto.
According to Us Weekly, Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend is Somali-born rapper K'Naan. The couple reportedly began to date exclusively since September.
A friend of the "Wavin' Flag" singer-rapper confirmed that Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend is indeed 36-year-old K'Naan and that the New York-based couple love the fact that they share a lot of similar interests.
"She loves his humanitarianism," said the source. "They'd [sic] both passionate about African issues."
The source added that Lupita and K'Naan are taking things slowly since the rapper apparently has two sons with pharmacy tech ex-wife Deqa Warsame and that "she [Lupita] hasn't met his kids" yet.
Meanwhile, it can be noted that dating rumors between Lupita and Jared Leto surfaced when the singer referred to Hollywood's new "It Girl" as his "future ex wife" during his independent Spirit Awards acceptance speech.
In an interview on The Ellen Show last month the Oscar-winning actress for her role in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave' said, "when I read these rumors, they're so detailed that even I start to question whether they're true or not."
Want to know more about Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend? Read on.
According to Radar Online, K'Naan is a devout Muslim, who doesn't drink or smoke and is quite focused on his rap career.
However, Lupita's boyfriend has been receiving a lot of bashing for his support to Somali pirates since according to him they "serve a purpose."
"Our pirates were the only deterrent we had from an externally imposed environmental disaster. One man's pirate is another man's coast guard," K'Naan added.
Interestingly, Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend as well as his family were refugees. They left Somalia in the 1990's to avoid the on-going war and decided to stay in Canada.
Unfortunately, when they moved to Toronto, life had been quite difficult for them. K'Naan revealed that because of this he became a part of a Somali gang in North America.
"We Somalis weren't treated well because we didn't know how to dress cool. We didn't have Nike trainers; instead, we had stuff from Walmart and kids would be laughing. There was always conflict there ... I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily I was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us," Lupita Nyong'o's boyfriend said.
