Nigerian singer Omah Lay has opened up about his struggle to quit smoking.
The 28-year-old artist talked about his smoking habit in a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show, where he noted that he realised smoking had become a habit he could not break, so he decided to accept it as part of his life.
He explained that he would die someday whether he smoked or not, and added that weed gives him “artificial happiness” and makes him feel rebellious.
“I love smoking a lot. I tried to stop, I forced myself but I can’t. It’s like a lot of contradiction. Honestly bro, life is just one,” he said.
“I am going to just die one day. We are all going to die one day. So what’s the essence? I just want to be at peace and smoke my weed.
“And the fact that it is illegal in Nigeria. When you smoke weed as a young boy in Nigeria, you feel like a criminal. It gives me artificial happiness.
“This is it. This is my life. I will just live it. I will enjoy every single thing that I have. It’s artificial happiness.”
In April, Omay Lay argued that he “is Nigeria’s best artiste of the last 20 years” and declared himself the “greatest Afrobeats artiste of the decade”.
Later on, he referred to himself as “God”.
“I believe in the creator. I believe in the universe. I believe in myself, mostly in myself because I believe I am God,” he had said.