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Renowned Ghanaian Hiplife artiste, Okyeame Kwame, has provided insights into the causes of substance usage among artists and creatives.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Joy Prime, Okyeame Kwame said that most creatives gravitate to drugs because they don\u2019t want to think critically about their problems.<\/p>\n

According to him, many creatives use drugs, drink, and sex to shut out these kinds of thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you close your eyes and sit down for 10 seconds, immediately, all the problems you have in life will come into your brain. Because your brain is so smart that it\u2019s always trying to solve your problem. So immediately you keep quiet, all your problems come up.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is why people are always trying to watch a movie, always trying to read a book, trying to talk to somebody, trying to have sex, trying to drink alcohol, and trying to smoke something to divert their brains from dealing with their problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that is the time when artistes are not willing to sit down quietly for their thoughts to punish them. But immediately they feel the problems come up, they take it, and then all the problems will go away because they have numbed their pain receptors\u2026\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

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Okyeame Kwame described his own struggle with depression and how he spent a year in meditation as a way to cope.<\/p>\n

He claims that doing so gave him the opportunity to consider his ideas and ultimately produced his popular \u201cMade in Ghana\u201d album.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody else could have resorted to becoming a sex addict to fulfill the emptiness or becoming a drug addict to fulfill the emptiness. But I let it beat me up. I sat down quietly for one year. I didn\u2019t make any music, I didn\u2019t go anywhere, I didn\u2019t pick up my phone calls. I took my phone away for one year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI stopped everything and I sat down quietly, and went into meditation. So it was immediately after that [period] that I made the \u2018Made in Ghana\u2019 album,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

Okyeame Kwame counseled other artists to welcome the solutions that arise from such ideas rather than dismissing them.<\/p>\n

The post Okyeame Kwame reveals why some Ghanaian artistes resort to drugs and sex addiction<\/a> first appeared on 3News<\/a>.<\/p>

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