India, Dec. 2 -- 25-year-old rapper Toosii, whose real name is Nau'jour Grainger, has taken a pause from his music career to join the Syracuse Orange college football team, he announced on social media on Monday.

Toosii's music career is as stellar as it can perhaps get for a 25-year-old rapper who dropped his first single on SoundCloud in 2017. But, little did his fans expect that his career would take a turn from music to sports, temporarily pausing a highly successful, multi-platinum music career that saw him touch several Billboard records.

"COMMITTED. For every kid who ever had a dream, make it reality. God's will is the way and no one can stop it not even the devil," he announced to his 1.4 million followers on X on Monday. "When ...