“Afrobeats Has No Substance, It’s Just Vibes” – Burna Boy makes claim .

“Afrobeats Has No Substance, It’s Just Vibes” – Burna Boy makes claim

 


Burna Boy, the Grammy-winning Nigerian vocalist also recognized as Damini Ogulu, has emphasized that the Afrobeats genre is deficient in meaningful lyrical content. He goes on to express that the genre essentially holds no substantial value.

In a recent conversation with Zane Lowe from Apple Music in New York, the self-proclaimed "African Giant" reiterated his perspective. 

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.”


Burna Boy has consistently stressed that his musical style is not confined to Afrobeats; rather, he categorizes it as Afrofusion – a fusion encompassing elements of afrobeat, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, and dancehall.

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