Are Burna Boy's Comments About Streams Hypocritical And Unnecessary?
Note: This article reflects the view of the author and not that of Notjustok. The analysis made is solely that of the author's and the organization hardly has any part in it.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. You are allowed to believe anything and express yourself within the walls of your belief. DMW superstar Mayorkun recently posted a picture some days back to celebrate the cumulative number of streams he’s gathered so far (70 million streams). Many of his fans took to the comment section to congratulate him. However, ‘African Giant’ Burna Boy doesn’t seem so pleased with the singer’s success or does it have nothing to do with Mayorkun's recent post?
Burna Boy is a talented musician with great potential. We have all seen him climb the ladder of success and his rise to the top is commendable. He’s regarded to be one of the notable African acts exporting Afrobeats to the world. His role in the success of the sound cannot be downplayed. But it is important to discuss the controversial statements he’s been making in recent times.
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Let’s talk about his comments on streaming. The number of streams an artist gets on his songs or projects is a metric to measure how well he or she is doing. It is surprising that Burna is ridiculing anyone for posting number of streams when he did exactly the same thing when his numbers went up after people stumbled on Ye in their search for Kanye’s 2018 album. I think it’s unethical and hypocritical to knock the hustle of any artist, particularly at a time when the industry needs a lot of support.
What I find even more ludicrous is Burna referring to Gangnam Style, a song whose music video accumulated so many streams that it broke YouTube's counter, as a joke. He said the same thing about the popular single Baby Shark too. That's hardly true if we were to put into consideration the immense impact these two songs had on pop culture.
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After making his comments known, some social media users gnawed at him for his (regular) display of controversy. It was seen by many as the Streets of Africa hitmaker hating on someone operating in the same industry as him.
If Burna Boy is acting like a demigod cos he had just one great year then we really need to put some respect on Wizkid and Davido's name cos those guys have had great years and they didn't lose their shit like this.
— Olumide O.G (@OlumideOG) May 7, 2019
See Burna boy's response after Mayorkun celebrated his 70m streams. Is this necessary? pic.twitter.com/REhEJnlN2F
— Zaddy Ajala (@UNCLE_AJALA) May 7, 2019
Burna Boy is very good but y'all overhype is getting to his head.
Why is he trolling Mayorkun unprovoked?
How is he even shading "Gangnam Style" when that song is bigger than his entire career and made Psy more money than Burna's ever made in his entire life.African Dwarf!
— Ugwunna Ejikem (@UgwunnaEjikem) May 7, 2019
“Burna Boy is overrated”
“Burna Boy needs to blow”This was y’all in 2018.
First he pisses on you all. Calls you “backward unprogressive fools”.Then disrespects Tiwa
And now Mayorkun.Man is clearly messed up.
You people hyped a wallgecko he started to think he’s a crocodile.— OurFavOnlineDoctor ? ? (@DrOlufunmilayo) May 7, 2019
BurnaBoy’s biggest song ever is Ye and all thanks to Kanye. Y’all influencers hyped him so much this nigga things he’s some sort of musical prodigy lmao.
Burna should be the last person to say someone isn’t talented . He basically copies someone else’s style of music .
— Deji (@felakinging) May 7, 2019
Burna Boy is calling Baby Shark and Gagnam style nonsense because he can’t zanku to it?
Lmao this guy overrates himself sha.— Chemical Brother ? (@chemicalbrodar) May 7, 2019
Burna Boy is a Motherfvcking hypocrite and an insecured fraud.
He should STFU and mind his bus.Mayor posted the 1st picture and Burna replied him with the 2nd picture. Mayor hit back with the 3rd picture.
The 4th picture was when Burna Boy celebrated Gbona 7.5m YouTube views. pic.twitter.com/5ox8oJg4IU— IMAM ZEUS (@itzbasito) May 7, 2019
- Burna boy lectures his colleagues about music streaming, hours after - @IamMayorKun posted his. pic.twitter.com/qC48Pjqb3B
— SubDeliveryZone (@SubDeliveryZone) May 7, 2019
Y'all said Burna Boy was underrated. Y'all went ahead to Overrate him. Now he thinks he's bigger than everyone because he had a better 2018 and performed at Coachella.
African Giant kor, Port Harcourt Tyrion Lannister ni— Follow Train. | Gain more Followers (@Funnycator1) May 7, 2019
Y'all said Burna Boy was underrated. Y'all went ahead to Overrate him. Now he thinkas he's bigger than everyone because he had a better 2018 and performed at Coachella.
African Giant kor, Port Harcourt Tyrion Lannister ni— Follow Train. | Gain more Followers (@Funnycator1) May 7, 2019
Guys Burna Boy is bold & courageous. You loved his music but never recognized him openly not until 2018. When his music moved to the next stage we all found out his talent was of a breed from the era of intelligent musicians like Fela. Just like Fela he says it as it is!!
— SNPR (@SmartAtuadi) May 7, 2019
The thing that's paining me is that Burna Boy has been remixing Fela songs and using it to blow on us .. even Davido that has writers is better ???♂️
— Gbolahan A. (@OlaThePlug) May 7, 2019
Maybe Burna needs to slow down. He appears to be getting overly critical and it's likely to become a regular thing for him. Permit me to say that it will yield better feedback if he focused more on better issues as well as showing love and support to as many artists as possible.
