Singer and actor Olawale Oloforo has described Grammy Awards winning Nigerian singer Burna Boy as “sleazy, cheap, very unoriginal and very fake”.
During a recent interview on TVC, Brymo said Burna Boy did not deserve to win a Grammy with his “Twice As Tall” album because he lacks “originality,’’ while stressing that most of Burna Boy’s songs are samples.
Brymo said:
“I saw a video where he (Burna Boy) was saying that he was the Jesus of Afrobeats. And he put Davido and Wizkid on some other mountains like that. I think he (Burna Boy) is sleazy, he is cheap, he is a thief. Very unoriginal. Very fake. Every of his song is a sample or a stolen slogan. Who does that? And who awards you Grammy for that?”
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Brymo who explained that “Afrobeats is a music style. It’s not a genre. Fela’s afrobeat is a genre. And it’s disrespectful that a new generation of musicians came and just added ‘s’. And tried to create another sets of numbers ones: ‘Wizkid is the first. Davido Burna Boy…’ No, no, no. They all are thieves, also quizzed:
“Do you know how much struggles Baba (Fela) went through to create afrobeat? Anyways, I think it’s a whole big problem that we have.”