Crown Uzama, the popular Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Shallipopi, has claimed that he doesn’t smoke despite posing with cigarettes in his pictures and videos.

He claimed that he uses cigarettes for aesthetics.

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

“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.”

Shallipopi, the popular Nigerian singer, has advised his fellow artistes to charge according to their values.

He stated this while addressing the debate over high fees charged by Nigerian artistes.

Speaking in an interview with News Central TV, the singer noted that an artiste’s value is linked to the success and reach of their music.

While disputing the notion that Nigerian artists have overpriced themselves out of the local market, he emphasised that artistes who achieve similar streaming as American artistes should charge comparable fees.

“It depends on your music and where it has gotten, that is what your price is going to be.

“If your music has gotten the same stream as an American artiste, you should be charging the same way they charge but if is not up to that you cannot overcharge,” he stated.

A woman based in the UK has posted a romantic video of herself with Shallipopi, following the circulation of another video showing the singer at a restaurant with a different woman yesterday.

At the restaurant, Shallipopi was caught on video kissing the yet-to-be-identified lady.

The same thing played in the video the lady shared. It however came with the caption, “After God, fear men”.

Nigerian singer, Shallipopi has achieved a major feat in his career as his latest album, ‘Shakespopi’ takes over 1st to 9th position on the Apple Music chart within 48 hours of release.

This marks the second studio album from Shallipopi barely two years after his shine in the music industry.

Shakespopi contains nine tracks, all topping charts on Apple Music Naija Top 100, overthrowing Portable and Skepta’s ‘Tony Montana’ which has been on the chart for weeks.

The massive wave of the songs has since stirred speculations from music critics who suggested an artificial boost of the songs on Apple Music called ‘Farming‘.

See reactions as Shallipopi’s new album, Shakespopi tops Apple Music chart below;

kimberlyeloghosa said: “Don’t even talk about farm stream,cos nobody dey hear word for Benin since he dropped.they’re really supporting him here.”

nwaobianoziee noted: “This is sad… what happened to good music 💔.”

kennedyexcel stated: “Dem suppose arrest him before him go sing another one.”

big_tony202 wrote: “You think say nah play play 😂 Benin boys dey para oo ❤🔥.”

edofinestcut said: ‘Na our child. We Dey stream am non stop. We pass streaming farm for Benin.😂”

maleek_mandela said: “This no be farm streams ooo 😂 I no listen to any other song since when this album drop 🔥.”

The well-known Nigerian singer Crown Uzama, better known by his stage name Shallipopi, has shared his origin story.

He said that Shaolin Popey, a 1994 Chinese kung fu comedy movie, was the source of the moniker.

The singer revealed that he tried using his birth name, Crown, and monikers like Drip Face as his stage name before deciding on Shallipopi in a recent interview with British media personality Madame Joyce.

He emphasized that his mother had purchased a Tom and Jerry CD for them, but when they put it in their DVD player, it turned out to be the movie Shaolin Popey, and he stated that he had discovered the film by chance when he was growing up.

“I was like, let me look for [stage] name.”

Shallipopi also made it clear that his style is called “afro-talk” rather than “afrobeats.”

As per him, he isn’t a rapper yet a talker.