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‘Why I Started Smoking’ – Rema - Celebrities - Nairaland 452rt

‘Why I Started Smoking’ – Rema (36710 Views)

Odewaleadesoye(m): 2:53pm On Aug 08, 2024

Afrobeats star Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has opened up about how the death of his dad affected his childhood.

The ‘Calm Down’ crooner said the death of his father left him the responsibility of catering for his family at a young age and in the process, he was “forced to sell” his childhood.

In a candid chat with GRM, Rema, 24, said he wants to “feel young again.”

He said he recently started smoking cigarettes in a bid to feel “free and break some rules again.”

Rema lamented that despite being an adult before deciding to smoke, people still criticise his decision because he’s a celebrity.

He said,

“I really wanted to feel like a child again… I feel like I grew up too fast. Life switched up on me crazy when I lost my dad and my brother. The weight was just on my shoulder and forced me to sell my childhood to provide for my family.

“God willing, everything happened well, it happened fast. And with fast fame, comes fast maturity. It’s just like never ending level of seriousness. So much adults. So much meetings. I didn’t even rolled with my age mates.

“So this project [‘HeIs’], I just want to be a child. And it’s coming out. It’s not me forcing it out. It just sparked in my spirit. I just want to feel young again. I just to be a rebel. You know, kids make mistakes and it’s acceptable. But when you’re a teenager and you make the same mistake your peers would make, everyone will come for you just because you’re in the spotlight.

“I know people who smoked a cigarette when they were 13 and I’m 24 smoking a cigarette because I just want to feel free and break some rules. All my life just feel so planned and scheduled. I just got tired.”

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ChizzyBuna(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

My own is I'm addicted to women
I fit knack 100 women in 3 months straight.

That is what gives me joy.
I don't smoke or drink alcohol but you see women!!! I fit spend me last card to cum inside a woman...

Everybody live their life
No need to explain anything to anybody

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Sonnobax15(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

Nigha,you certainly owes no body any explanation.......Na you get your lungs and you have the right to do anything to them and nobody have the right to question you..

When people say it was Shallipopi that influenced him to start smoking, I only laugh...Cuz I don't believe anyone can influence anybody to start a bad habit if he's not interested in it in the first place....

Back in my poly days,I had a lot of gees who smoked...Tho they tried to compel me to go into smoking but I refuted and refused cuz I wasn't interested....

The only thing I see in all of this is that the nigha waited until his exit days from Mavins before he can start smoking cuz Don Jazzy didn't give him the chance to do that...

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MosakuAW(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

Very stup!d and lame excuse to smoke.

Who are the public relation officer of this so called yeyebrety. You grant interview to say, you started smoking because you wanted to feel like a child again.

Why don't you start bedwetting again because you want to feel like a child again. Anyways, too much money can make you do stupid things sha. Best of luck.

#Money can't buy happiness, but I still want to have it. The reality!

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aieromon(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

No one cares....

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Yugoslavia247(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

If you ask a goat why it is stubborn. It will tell you is because humans are wicked.

When his father died, why was it smoke or he chose. He loves smoking even before him papa die.

He just get moral to show it after him papa die

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VikingKing: 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

When Universal Music Group (UMG) acquired Mavin Records from Don Jazzy, I expected to see a lot more degeneracy and I was not wrong.

Rema is now constantly seen smoking, Ayra Starr was seen almost naked, shaking her small nyash in Barbados with Rihanna few days back. If not for Universal, who born her papa well to hang out with Rihanna? Who dash monkey banana?? Something other A-list artists around the world can only dream of doing?

The only people I pity are the parents who's children are already carving out role models from people like Ayra Starr and Rema. If you can't see by now what is going on, then I just implore you to watch them from now hence, because the degeneracy has only just begun. Mavin Records is about to take degeneracy in Afrobeats to a whole new level!

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Sellfish(m): 3:04pm On Aug 08, 2024

A careless statement for someone who appears to have premature death running in his family angry

Your papa and brother die, and e no still make you get sense and protect your health

Continue to "feel free" until cancer cages you and reunites you with your loved ones

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Seyi8750: 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

1 in 2 smokers will die of a tobacco related disease
DONT BE THE 1

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obainojazz(m): 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

Bull 💩

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floss(m): 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

Wow sha

Joystic: 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

Sccarrr: 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

Shut up my friend... continue enjoying life and dey feed your ~~worshippers~~ fans with bull craps

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Kylekent59: 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

When you give people attention and reactions, they become popular.

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thorpido(m): 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

Very lame excuse.

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jospepper(m): 3:05pm On Aug 08, 2024

I thought you'd be thanking God you didn't have opportunity to do some crazy things adolescents do.

I grew up under strict relatives and I thank God I didn't have opportunity to do some rubbish I used to envy my peers who had the freedom to engage in them.

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kissval1388: 3:06pm On Aug 08, 2024

I feel for him

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PlasmaTV: 3:06pm On Aug 08, 2024

Cancer
Cancer
Cancer

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Ojagun(m): 3:06pm On Aug 08, 2024

Throughout the week of nationwide protests in Nigeria,not ONE of these musicians who the young & old generally ire and , spoke in favour of the protesters.

I sorry for my people

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emmabest2000(m): 3:06pm On Aug 08, 2024

Is there any worldly musician who don't smoke ?

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