Watch! Burna Boy Opens Up About An African Genre That Is Taking Over The World.The Million Dollaz Worth of Game show is a weekly podcast with rapper Gillie Da King and social media influencer and disruptor Wallo267 (who are also first cousins), targeting their combined social media presence of over 1.3 million followers. For their newest episode, episode 174, Wallo and Gillie brought on the African Giant himself, Burna Boy.
Burna Boy has made a huge shout out for amapiano during an interview with the hosts of the Million Dollar Worth of Game podcast. “Somehow they just said Afrobeats and added an s. I don’t know what sense that made but that’s what happened. Somewhere along the line, all the music that comes from Africa just writes Afrobeats.“We have Highlife, Juju music, Fuji music, South African Kwaeto music, Amapiano, Afropop, we have all types of genres in Africa. To be really sincere, for you to just call everything Afrobeats kind of does a disservice to the artistes.
Burna Boy made this assertion in an interview with the hosts of the Million Dollar Worth of Game podcast, which was aired on Sunday.According to Burna Boy, the generalisation of music as Afrobeats was unfair to African artistes.“For me, it’s like the same way you’re going to say Nas is an R&B singer because he’s from America or Whitney Houston was a rapper because rap is the most popping thing now,” he said.
He added, “I can’t accept that because I’m not a rapper. So now in Africa when you talk about music, the first thing they say is Afrobeats. Afrobeat is a legend called Fela Kuti.
