- Yo, what's up "GQ?"
It's your boy, Davido, and these are my 10 essential items.
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I love popcorn, when we were young,
man, we used to always have like movie nights,
especially at my cousin's house.
So my auntie, Auntie Christine,
used to make this bomb-ass popcorn.
And she used to, like, switch it up,
sometimes it'd be like cinnamon,
sometimes she even made Maggi popcorn, it was so dope.
If I'm hosting a movie night,
definitely have to watch "American Pie."
That's like one of my go-to movies,
like when we're just bored,
like, yo, let's watch something wild.
Or one movie that's made me cry,
and it wasn't like crying like sad cry,
it was like happy, like joy.
"Crazy Rich Asians." It's about love.
I know I'm a lover, but so, you know,
it hit me right here, man, I was crying.
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Your Bible on my tablet here, you know, we have a Bible,
also have like an app for, like, daily hymns.
Help other people too in the app
who you can talk to, pray with, like Facebook, but like...
You have prayer points as well.
Everybody knows what my prayer points is,
now every day I pray, I've been nominated for three Grammys,
so everybody knows what I'm praying for
every day I wake up. [laughs]
Obviously my name is David,
I know David defeated Goliath.
Coming back to do "Timeless" album
after everything I had been through,
you know what I'm saying?
I had to start off strong.
I just show people that, you know,
I will always overcome, you know what I'm saying?
Whatever, you know, the devil throws at me.
You know, God is always there to fight back with me, so.
Me not move without me jewelry.
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My jewelry, everybody who knows me,
I'm a big fan of jewelry.
Got the Patek, got the Rollie, two Rolexes.
Famous "Timeless" piece I just did,
focusing on my new album, "Timeless"
came out earlier this year.
Grammy-nominated album "Timeless."
So I wanted to, like, celebrate
and do something crazy for it.
So I got this idea of like an hourglass
'cause that, like, represents, like, patience to me.
And I feel like every blessing
that I've gotten through this album
has a lot to do with just me being patient
and just knowing that everybody has their time
that God will bless them.
This is the classic DMW Davido piece.
That's my daughter's face on it.
So this is a funny one.
I made a frog chain because my voice is hoarse
and they was calling me a frog on Twitter,
and I was like, you know what,
I'm about gonna make a chain out that shit. [laughs]
[speaks in foreign language] like they say in my country,
don't go do pass yourself. [laughs]
So we do the work we can afford. [laughs]
People, some people can afford $20,000 jewelry,
still look good, some people can afford $5,000,
some people can afford 2 million, 3 million.
It's just the way you rock it, I guess.
Next item, my headphones.
I always carry my headphones around
because obviously, what do I do?
I make music, you know what I'm saying?
I could be anywhere, my producers hit me up, be like
"Yo, baddest, I need you to hear something."
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, my in-ears, I'm a performer so I always gotta have
one of these everywhere I go, every country.
'Cause I might have to perform somewhere.
Always pray before a performance,
and just sometimes I like to have like down quiet time,
like right maybe like 30 minutes before I perform.
I get a masseuse come backstage, you know,
loosen up the tension a little bit.
But apart from that, I'm straight,
I'm ready to go anytime.
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Bang! You gotta have something for the feet.
I like the all white original, all white plains,
I got like 50 of them.
My collection definitely, one thing I wanted
was I wanted like Nigerian colors,
which was like greens, whites.
So if you look at the actual collection,
you see, like, some designs
that look like African prints on there.
We went to Germany, we sat down, we went to the factory,
you know, we picked the clothes, it took over a year.
I'm actually working on a new collection right now,
we just finalized on that too.
It should be out sometime next year.
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Next items, hater-blockers, for like a wedding
or a business meeting, you know what I'm saying?
You throw on the clears. You know what I'm saying?
You know how these fans are,
once you just look at them like this.
Wah!
They're either coming towards you or coming to talk to you
or something like that.
So, like, I be trying not to,
and I mean I like to look at people in the eye,
especially like if I'm talking to you.
But these days, man, gotta have the hater-blockers.
So I can looking like this,
but my eye is there, [laughs]
I can be looking like this but my eye is there.
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Martell, the road be stressful, and sometimes, you know,
just wanna have a little drink, you know, ease the stress.
My go-to drink, it's called the sidecar.
Obviously it's like two shots of this,
orange peel, then lime juice.
But you mix it and then pah, pah, pah, you pour it out,
obviously whatever you mix is in there already.
And then you put the orange peel to top it off.
If you outside right there or you going outside tonight,
go to the bar and ask them for a sidecar. [chuckles]
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My next item is what everybody loves, what everybody likes,
and what everybody loves to have.
Money.
So I always like to have some cash on me,
you know what I'm saying?
Go out to eat, go to the mall, or whatever you wanna do.
Just always have to have at least a substantial amount.
And it grew, before we leave the house,
it's a hundred dollars,
and it's now we try to leave the house with 20K, 30k,
come backwards, minus 5K. [laughs]
And I seen all this money here
and there's still like 5,000 people that were helping
that were every day we try to change lives.
So obviously, like, if I have this in my pocket,
it's definitely not for only me, for everybody around me.
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My toiletry bag, oh everybody that knows me
knows that I'm somewhere, and I walk by you.
They gonna feel it.
I love cologne, a lot of cologne, too much different stuff.
I'll be switching them up.
This one is a basic essential,
this one should all be what you like.
You should have it with you at all times.
I'll say I'm lucky, because, like,
I've never really had, like, any problem
with, like, my skin ever since I was a kid.
I just recently started, like, you know what I'm saying,
[indistinct] my wife is there doing all the,
"Oh, use this one, baby, use this one."
Definitely when you wake up in the morning,
you know, wash your face.
After I eat, I wash my face.
Definitely after every show, after every performance,
anytime I feel, like, uncomfortable, sweaty, or anything,
I rush to the showers,
so I'll be taking, like, three showers a day.
Those are my 10 essential items.
Thank you, "GQ."
We out. Baddest.