Burna Boy apologises for criticising Afrobeats music: “I wasn’t the happiest man in the world” – NME

A man wearing sunglasses and black gloves sings into a microphone on stage, dressed in a dark outfit with white numbers and letters printed on it, channeling the bold style of Burna Boy at an NME-featured Afrobeats music event.

Burna Boy has apologised for his comments criticising Afrobeats music, saying that they stemmed from a place of unhappiness.

The initial comments divided fan opinion back in 2023, when the Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer spoke to Zane Lowe for Apple Music, and shared that he thought the Afrobeats genre as a whole was devoid of any deeper meaning.

“Half of them, [actually,] 90 per cent of them, have almost no real-life experiences that they can understand,” he claimed. “That’s why you hear most Nigerian music,…