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  • Burna Boy Wins Grammy Award For Twice As Tall

    Burna Boy Wins Grammy Award For Twice As Tall

    Afrobeat superstar Burna Boy has added a Grammy to his growing list of accomplishments. 

    After being nominated and losing to Angelique Kidjo for the 2020 edition of the Grammy, the Nigerian singer and songwriter has made a bigger comeback in the 2021 installment of the awards.

    The singer won the Best Global Music Album category for his latest body of work, ‘Twice As Tall’.

    This marks their first career GRAMMY win. They are the first winner of the recently renamed category, formerly known as Best World Music Album.

    He beats American, Brooklyn-based afrobeat band Antibalas; a group of Tuareg musicians, Tinariwen; British-Indian composer, Anoushka Shankar and Brazilian-American singer, Bebel Gilberto.

    The self-acclaimed African Giant’s win makes him one of only three Nigerians who will be returning home with the Grammy Statuette.

    Sikiru Adepoju is the first Nigerian to have won the Grammy.  He won it in 2009 with the “Global Drum Project” a collaborative album with Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, and Giovanni Hidalgo.

    Ayo Balogun, the Afrobeats superstar popularly known as Wizkid, is the other Nigerian who has won the grammy; coincidentally he and Burna Boy got their first awards on the same day at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards ceremony.

    While Wizkid won for his collaboration with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy on the song “Brown Skin Girl”, Burna Boy who is dubbed ‘Odogwu’ won for his fifth studio album.

    The news of Burna’s victory has fans gyrating all over social media, with many saying that the Afro-Fusion star has now placed Nigeria back on the world’s music map.

  • Burna Boy’s album, ‘Twice As Tall’ nominated for a Grammy Award for ‘Best Global Music Album ‘

    Burna Boy’s album, ‘Twice As Tall’ nominated for a Grammy Award for ‘Best Global Music Album ‘

    Nigerian singer, Burna Boy has been nominated for a Grammy Award for ‘Best Global Music Album.’

    In the nomination list for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards which was released this afternoon (Nov.24), Burna got a nomination with his new album, ‘Twice As Tall.’

    The 29-year-old singer was nominated in the ‘Best Global Music Album category’ alongside Antibalas (Fu Chronicles), Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen (Amadjar).

    Burna Boy?s album,

    Burna Boy’s Twice As Tall album is his fifth studio album. He released the 15-track album on August 14, 2020. 

    His previous album, African Giant, was also nominated at the 62nd Grammy Awards for ‘Best World Music Album’ but he lost the award to Angélique Kidjo.

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  • Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ album debuts at number 54 on the Billboard 200, beats Davido and Wizkid

    Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ album debuts at number 54 on the Billboard 200, beats Davido and Wizkid

    Nigerian singer and Grammy Nominee, Burna Boy has made history as his ‘Twice As Tall’ album debuts at number 54 on the Billboard 200, the highest charting Nigerian album ever on the Billboard 200.

    Twice As Tall, Burna Boy’s fifth studio album is less than a week old but has occupied the thoughts of many around the world simply because of what it proves. While he has already established his ability to make people move their bodies and have a good time, Burna Boy shows off the intelligence and courage to speak about the things that matter to him, without losing his audience.

    In the over eight years that Burna Boy has actively made music, his fans have always admired his unique ability to mash-up a lot of different melodies, whether reggae, dance-hall or pop and make it work for a diverse variety of music fans. Songs like “Like To Party”, “Run My Race” and “Yawa Dey”, were his early introduction to fans back in 2010, and the evergreen nature of these songs and the ones that have come after them is why his following continues to grow.

    Burna Boy has one of the largest fan bases of any African artist. In 2019, he had the most streams on Spotify and gained 5 million more in the first hour of his new album’s release.

  • Burna Boy slammed over ‘homophobic’ slur in new album

    Burna Boy slammed over ‘homophobic’ slur in new album

    Queer Nigerians on social media has called out Burna Boy over ‘homophobic slur lyrics’ on his recently released album, Twice as Tall.

    It was reported earlier that Burna Boy released his most anticipated studio record, Twice as Tall Album yesterday, 13th August which recorded about five million streams within the first hour of its release, making it become an instant hit.

    However, a Twitter user, @Blaise_21, took to the microblogging platform to call out Burna Boy for homophobia on the track, “Wettin Dey Sup.”

    He wrote;

    “This Burna boy lyric spills homophobia back to back. I been sensed it. Stop making excuses for Burna boy because you like his music. Historically, gay people were called weak because they’re not attracted to women and many gay men could only be involved in anal sex. Also, telling all of us you’re straight after having a song with Sam Smith”

    The refrain of the track goes;

    “I no be one of those men wey dey fear toto fuck nyash
    Check am, na kpa goro kpa. Me I know say everybody got to die on day buried six feet under golo ta”

    See more reactions below;

    @UnekwuojoJimmy: This Burna Boy has shown time and time again that he is an insensitive, ignorant and razz little shit. Now his homophobia has jumped out… again! But because he is your fave and you want to vibe so desperately to his mediocre music, you will unlook all his BS.

    @TrophyHusbandD: Homophobic lines in music are so silly because they almost never add anything of value to the song…. But now a potentially good song becomes a source of pain or discomfort for your fans.

    @fendihoe_: Not people being dishonest and gaslighting this tweet……..is it not on this same TL people were questioning his collab with Sam Smith Bc we all know he’s homophobic?

    @Stepharney2: So you can go about screaming you’re gay and rainbowing up but the straight people can’t?
    You’re the only one with the rights to state your sexuality in people’s faces? The actual hypocrisy

  • Actress Uche Jombo calls out international newspaper over Burna Boy’s ‘Twice as Tall’

    Actress Uche Jombo calls out international newspaper over Burna Boy’s ‘Twice as Tall’

    Nollywood actress cum film producer Uche Jombo has expressed displeasure with the presentation of Burna Boy by New York Post on Friday.

    Few hours after Afro-beat superstar, Burnaboy dropped his most anticipated sixth studio album; #TwiceAsTall, the American news platform posted a story about it.

    However, the headline of the article says: “Beyoncé-endorsed Burnaboy makes Afro-beat go International.”

    The first paragraph of the article was about how Burna Boy felt when approached by Beyonce last year.

    In reaction to the report, Uche Jombo via her verified Twitter account expressed dissatisfaction as she lambasts the paper for their insensitive headline.

    “As you can imagine, the Nigerian artist felt like worldwide royalty when he was approached by the Queen B — um, yes, Beyoncé — to work with her on last year’s “The Lion King: The Gift” album.”

    She wrote: “I love Beyonce as the next person but you are wrong with this ..Beyonce-endorsed Burna Boy “makes” a whole AFROBEAT go international. such a think piece let down by the headline. Do better.”

  • 2face, Ben Bruce, Bashir Ahmad and others hail Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ as it Drops

    2face, Ben Bruce, Bashir Ahmad and others hail Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ as it Drops

    Grammy Awards nominee, singer Burna Boy has been hailed by Nigerians on social media after the released of his new album titled Twice As Tall.

    According to his caption of the album on Boomplay, “Twice As Tall is the album about a period of time in my life. It’s an album about the struggle for freedom. It’s an album about life in general, real life, good times, bad times, happy times, sad times, great times.”

    Shortly after the album dropped, Burna Boy was hailed by 2face Idibia, Ben Bruce, Bashir Ahmad and many prominent Nigerians for the effort put into creating the album.

    2Baba wrote: “Burna boy don enter another planet #TWICEASTALL. Congrats @burnaboy this one pass grammy level. This is a total LEVEL UP.”

    President Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, wrote: “He has done it again, @burnaboy my guy. #AfricanGiant now #TwiceAsTall.”

    JJ Omojuwa wrote: “Burna Boy and his team have put in some real work mehn! #TWICEASTALL is spotless.”

    Ben Murray Bruce said: “Congrats, King @burnaboy! #TWICEASTALL.”

    Frank Edoho: “That Bebo song by Burna Boy is inflicting my brain with groundhog syndrome. The jukebox in my head has it on loop and I can’t get it to stop. I will play it until it decomposes. Great song. #TWICEASTALL.”