"Afrobeats Is Just Vibes; It Has No Substance" Burna Boy [WATCH]

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The Grammy-winning Nigerian musician Damini Ogulu, better known by his stage name Burna Boy, claims that the afrobeats genre lacks meaningful lyrics and is instead "just a great time."

He says the genre is "literally nothing."

This was said by the self-styled "African Giant" in an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe that took place recently in New York.

He said, "90 per cent of them (Nigerian musicians) have no real life experiences which is why most of Nigerian music or African music or afrobeats as people call it, is mostly about nothing, literally nothing.

"There is no substance to it - like, nobody is talking about anything in it. it is just a great time. It's an amazing time. But at the end of the day, life is not an amazing time. No matter how nice of a time you are having now or you had at some point or you plan to have, you are still 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."

Recalls that Burna Boy has emphasized that his music is not afrobeats, but rather an amalgam of afrobeat, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, and dancehall, which he labels afrofusion.

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