Burna Boy has lamented the lack of respect he receives from Nigerians. He claimed that because of the way he sounds, Nigerians don’t think he is on the same level as American music icons.
He made this claim in reference to the fact that his own countrymen frequently consider emerging American rappers to be superior to him in a Los Angeles Times interview.
The musician claimed that his next album, “I Told Them…” is a flippant response to those who have tried to undermine him throughout his career, both in the past and present. The Nigerian singer whose career has been on the ascendency in the past five years claimed that whereas American music formerly dominated the playlists of Nigerian media outlets, this has changed as a result of the rise of Afrobeats.
Burna Boy said; “To this day, there’s many Nigerians who can tell you an American rapper who just started their career, and they’ll say they’re bigger than Burna Boy. They don’t understand it. They’ll say, ‘There’s no way someone who talks like me, can even be on the same level as an American artist.”
In other Burna Boy related stories, a lady who recently attended a Burna Boy concert in Zimbabwe has begged the Nigerian superstar to marry her after her antics at the event headlined by the self-professed African Giant went viral.
The Zimbabwean socialite, identified as Ellen Tsaura, pleaded with Burna Boy to accept her as his wife because her boyfriend had broken up with her because of him.
Burna Boy reportedly performed at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare, Zimbabwe, in June 2022 wherein Ellen hurled her black brassiere at him. The pretty lady shared a report on her Twitter page about her expression of love for the Nigerian musician.
Ellen revealed that the latest man who dumped her was the fifth boyfriend to break up with her over the incident. She wrote; “I broke up with my 5th Boyfriend because of this @burnaboy must just come and marry me kwacho.”
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