Grammy award-winning Nigerian artiste, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has explained that Nigerians are not appreciative of him enough despite making the country proud on the local and international stage.
According to him, Nigerians prefer to spread rumours about him rather than appreciate him for the good things he is doing musically for the country.
Burna Boy said some persons speculated that his mother was one of the dancers of the late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti, and that impotency might be the reason he doesn’t have a baby mama like most of his colleagues.
The ‘It’s plenty’ crooner, whose maternal grandfather, Benson Idonije, was Fela Kuti’s first manager, also lashed out at Nigerians for speculating that the June 8, 2022, incident where his police escorts allegedly shot at one Ms. Steph Briella, her partner, and her best friend at Club Cubana, Victoria Island, Lagos, was because he wanted to snatch her from her partner.
The self-styled “African Giant” said this on “Thanks”, a J.Cole feature from his seventh studio album, “I Told Them,” which was released on Thursday night.
He sings: “Is this the m*ing thanks I get for making my people proud, every chance I get?
“It’s okay, I get. This Naija no love.
“They say my mama dance for Fela.
“They say I no get baby mama.
“They say I shoot person for Cubana because I want collect person woman…
Is this the m***ing thanks I get? For making my people proud, every chance I get.”