Burna Boy Can’t Tell Me No Nigerian Artist Has Ever Inspired Him – Jaywon

Popular singer, Jaywon has come out to speak on artists who insist no one paved the way for them.

He recently had his say while speaking on the Teju Babyface podcast, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even if Burna Boy is extremely talented, he cannot tell me he has never been inspired by another Nigerian artist while working his way up the Nigerian music industry.

Jaywon added that it will take nothing from him to give a shoutout to those who came before you.

His words, “Burna is talented, everything, but when it comes to that attitude, it’s like Burna saying ‘nobody paved the way for me’. How can you say that? It’s a very wrong thing to say. You don’t understand. It’s madness.

Because that means you’re saying from when you were little till now, no one has inspired you.

It’s not going to take anything from you to give a shoutout to those that came before you…. It won’t stop your greatness. If you know you know!”

WOW.

Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu MFR (born 2 July 1991), known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. He rose to stardom in 2012 after releasing “Like to Party”, the lead single from his debut studio album L.I.F.E (2013). In 2017, Burna Boy signed with Bad Habit/Atlantic Records in the United States and Warner Music Group internationally. His third studio album Outside (2018) marked his major-label debut.

In 2019, he won Best International Act at the 2019 BET Awards, and was announced as Apple Music Up Next artist that year. His fourth studio album, titled African Giant, was released in July 2019. It won Album of the Year at the 2019 All Africa Music Awards and was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.

He was awarded African Artist of the Year at the 2020 Ghana Music Awards. Burna Boy released his fifth studio album, Twice as Tall, in August 2020. It won Best World Music Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. He won Best International Act at the 2021 BET Awards.

Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu was born on 2 July 1991, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. His mother Bose Ogulu worked as a language translator and his father, Samuel, managed a welding company. His maternal grandfather Benson Idonije once managed Fela Kuti.