“Afrobeats Has No Substance, It’s Just Vibes” – Burna Boy » Naijaloaded

Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, higher referred to as Burna Boy, has asserted that the Afrobeats style lacks lyrical substance.

According to him, the style is “literally nothing.”

The self-styled “African Giant” acknowledged this in a current interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in New York.

He stated,

“90 per cent of them [Nigerian musicians] haven’t any actual life experiences which is why most of Nigerian music or African music or afrobeats as individuals name it, is usually about nothing, actually nothing.

“There is not any substance to it — like, no person is speaking about something in it. it’s simply a good time. It’s a tremendous time. But on the finish of the day, life is just not a tremendous time. No matter how good of a time you might be having now otherwise you had sooner or later otherwise you plan to have, you might be nonetheless going to face life.

“So, for me, I feel like music should be the essence of the artiste. The artiste is a person who has good day, bad day, his great days and worst days. So, I’m dropping a project that should be a window for the fans to see those experiences.”

Recall that Burna Boy has reiterated that his style of music is just not afrobeats however afrofusion which he stated is a fusion of afrobeat, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, and dancehall.