I only smoked weed twice in my life - Okyeame Kwame
It is widely believed that people who ply their trade in the creative industry are prone to lifestyles such as smoking, but for Okyeame Kwame, he actually tried smoking before he started music.
In an interview, speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Joy Prime, Okyeame said throughout his entire life, he only smoked on two occasions, but he stopped because it was a bad experience.
"I have smoked weed before, twice in my life. One, two. I didn’t enjoy it. This is me. I want to be conscious. I want to be aware. I want to know what is happening around me. I want to feel what is within me. So everything that intoxicates me, I don’t like. So when I took it, I became slow, and then I started hallucinating," he said.
However, he reiterated that he wants to be intentional about all he does and be responsible for it, without saying he was influenced by anyone or anything.
According to the musician, who is a vegetarian, one of the things he has stayed away from is alcohol.
“I don’t drink alcohol. I have tasted alcohol before, but all the alcohol I have taken in 47 years, if I put it in one beer bottle, will be half my lifetle, will be half my life. I don’t drink alcohol,” Okyeame said.
Touching on what keeps him young and healthy, he noted that his secret has been eating the right food at the right time and exercising.
“My secret is first, I get my seven hours of sleep every day; beyond that, in the morning, I do intermittent fasting, so when I wake up in the morning, I drink my water, which has lemon or lime, and then I wait until 10.30 a.m. or eleven before I eat my main meal,” he noted.
Kwame mentioned that he has also developed the culture of going to the gym and taking his second meal at 5 p.m.
On his birthday (April 17, 2023), the 47-year-old posted a photo of himself in boxer shorts to promote his new boxer shorts brand.
Although he was severely mauled for posting the photos they considered too revealing, he has said that since what he did did not hurt anybody or flout any laws, he is unfazed by the backlash; he is just happy he had good publicity for the product.
