“I Want To Be The Greatest.” – Burna Boy

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The Nigerian Grammy winner, Burna Boy opens up in an interview on why he invested so much effort into becoming a Grammy winner.

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In a recent interview with GQ magazine,  Burna boy stated;

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Following several collaborations with foreign artistes of African heritage, I just made up my mind that I wanted it all. I wanted to be the greatest. That’s when it hit me really hard that I had to do it. It was that or death,” he affirmed.

 

"I had to choose between greatness & death to break the mental cycle of our people" - Burna Boy grammy

He added, I was not celebrating because of myself. It was almost as if I had broken a mental cycle of our people. Our people had been very mentally oppressed to feel like they could not do certain things, and that certain things were unreachable.

Every day, I realise more that things are bigger than me. I have to think for a lot of people – basically a whole generation – before I think of myself.”

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