After weeks of chaos and high-speed energy,Darren “iShowSpeed” Watkins Jr. finally got the answer he wanted when his DNA test results confirmed he is “100% African.” In classic Speed fashion, the “official” reveal wasn’t a formal lab report but a simple, handwritten note on a piece of paper shown to millions of viewers. “I’ve got my test results right here.
Ancestor test results. 100% African,” he said showing the paper. Whether it was a genuine scientific update or a theatrical bit of “Speed drama” to end the tour, the moment was the perfect finale for his massive month-long journey across the continent.
This is not the first timeSpeedhas spoken about his heritage. Back in 2025, he shared preliminary results suggesting he was around 80% African and 20% European, even joking that the European side made him a distant cousin of his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo. The tour was packed with historic milestones, none bigger than his stop in Egypt.
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Speed became the first streamer to ever go live from inside theGreat Pyramid of Giza. He took 3.5 million live viewers through the narrow, ancient tunnels in real-time. Dressed in a traditional galabiya, he navigated the cramped passages with a local archaeologist, even getting help from the Egyptian government to run internet cables deep into the stone chambers to keep the stream from dropping.
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