Nigerian singer Crown Uzama, popularly known by his stage name as Shallipopi, has disclosed that he doesn’t smoke despite his multiple posing with cigarettes in his pictures and videos. The singer claimed that he only consider cigarettes for fancy and hyping.


The ‘Oba Pluto’ crooner made this disclosure in a recent interview with Soundcity.

According to him, “One thing that my fans don’t know about me is that I don’t smoke. It’s just aesthetics,” he said.

On what inspired him to do music, Shallipopi said, “What influences me to do music is hardship. You don’t want to go through hardship in this country.”