Burna Boy, also known as Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, is a Nigerian musician who has achieved chart-topping, financial, and critical success. He is well known for his popular singles, including Ye, Anybody, On the Low, Bank on It, and others. He is now promoting his new album Love, Damini, which has his most recent number-one hit, Last Last.
Burna Boy sits down with Billboard to discuss music, life, performance, and other topics while promoting the album. About everything, Burna Boy has a lot to say. Here are some of the key points from his interview with Billboard.
Burna Boy said why, to him, recording music is more like therapy than it is a business:
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(Recording music is) more therapy than business — it’s business second. You can only say that if you have money. I’ve got the money. It’s not about that for me. It’s about that for my mom and my sister, though. That’s why we have arguments when it’s time to release stuff, because I just want to do what I want to do. And sometimes what I want to do is not the best thing for business
Speaking about his love for performing and dream places to perform, Burna Boy said:
It’s like I’m better at [performing] than making music. And that says a lot because I’m really good at making music. You see how with Christ, there’s B.C. and A.D.? I feel like that’s how it is for me with performing. There’s going to be a ‘Before Burna Came’ and ‘After Burna’s Death’ time period in the performing arts world. That’s my legacy.”
My dream venues, other than all the stadiums in the world, are unorthodox, like a theme park or a f–king train station. A concert in a big-ass train station, and there’s no trains and the whole tracks are filled with people. I just want to do weird sh-t like that for my own pleasure
Speaking about his new album Love Damini, turning 31, and reflecting on life, Burna Boy said:
[Love, Damini], that’s how I like to sign all my letters, because I didn’t know the proper [signoff]. It’s a bit personal [because] it’s bringing you into my head on my birthday — when you turn 31 and ain’t got no kids, everything is going good and bad at the same time. You reflect and then you get as lit as possible. Then you sleep and wake up and reflect again. I’m reflecting on everything — what I’m doing and what’s happening where I’m from. Where I’m from is a part of where I’m going.
