“No Substance”: Burna Boy apologises for controversial statement about Afrobeats

Burna Boy apologised for a controversial 2023 interview, where he said that he doesn’t consider himself an Afrobeats artist and that the genre had “no substance”.

Speaking with BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Eddie Kadi on Tuesday, Burna Boy explained that his earlier comments that he is not an Afrobeats artist but rather an Afrofusion artist should be seen in the light of his early career in Nigeria, where he didn’t feel like there was a place for…