Nigerian singer, Ọlawale Ọlọfọrọ, popularly often called Brymo, has described Grammy-winning musician, Burna Boy as “sleazy, cheap, and very fake”.
Speaking in a latest interview with TVC, the ‘Ara’ crooner additionally stated that Burna Boy didn’t need to win the Grammy for his fifth studio album, ‘Twice As Tall,’ stressing that he lacks originality and most of his songs are samples.
He additionally referred to as out Wizkid and Davido describing them as “thieves” who’re stealing from Fela’s afrobeat sacrifices.
Brymo stated,
“I noticed a video the place he (Burna Boy) was saying that he was the Jesus of afrobeats. And he put Davido and Wizkid on another mountains like that.
“I feel he (Burna Boy) is sleazy, he’s low-cost, he’s a thief. Very unoriginal. Very faux. Every of his track is a pattern or a stolen slogan. Who does that? And who awards you Grammy for that?
“Afrobeats is a music type. It’s not a style. Fela’s afrobeat is a style. And it’s disrespectful {that a} new era of musicians got here and simply added ‘s’. And tried to create one other units of numbers ones: ‘Wizkid is the first. Davido Burna Boy…’ No, no, no. They all are thieves.
“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.”
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