Nigerian Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido<\/strong>, stated that his collaboration with his colleague Omah Lay, was meant to dispel doubts about his love for him.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that in 2024, Omah Lay<\/strong> revealed he had assumed that Davido \u201chated\u201d him until the DMW boss spun his songs during his famous livestream with American streamer Kai Cenat in Lagos State.<\/p>\n In a trending video broadcast, Davido explained that he reached out to Omah Lay after seeing his tweet.<\/p>\n According to Davido, their interactions led to their collaboration on \u2018With You\u2019.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cHow Omah Lay and I got together was, Kai Cenat came to Nigeria and I was driving him to the club and then Omah Lay\u2019s song comes up, and he was like, \u2018Who is this?\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI responded, \u2018Oh! This is Omah Lay, he is hot.\u2019 And then the next day, Omah Lay tweeted like, \u2018Wow! Davido gave me a shoutout on a livestream, I thought he hated me.\u2019 And I Dmed him, \u2018Why would you think I hate you? We\u2019ve never met.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cWe eventually, exchanged numbers and we were going back-and-forth with music. We did about four songs and he chose \u2018With You\u2019 as the one we would release.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n \u2018With You\u2019 is one of the standout tracks of Davido\u2019s fifth album, 5ive.<\/p>\n The song has been nominated for the Best African Music Performance category at the 2026 Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigerian Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, stated that his collaboration with his colleague Omah Lay, was meant to dispel doubts about his love for him. Abia Radio News recalls that in 2024, Omah Lay revealed he had assumed that Davido \u201chated\u201d him until the DMW boss spun his songs during his famous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":238332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[403,2494,1235,2035],"class_list":["post-238331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-davido","tag-davido-and-omah-lay","tag-naija-news","tag-omah-lay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Davido-and-Omah-Lay.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}