I Was Offered BET Award for $10,000, Alleges Brymo, Slams Burna Boy’s Grammy
Nigerian singer, Brymo has escalated his long-running feud with Burna Boy, alleging in a new interview that the Grammy Award-winning star did not win his prize on merit but rather paid for it.
Speaking on the digital media platform NotJustOkay, Brymo insisted that Burna Boy’s name would never feature in any of his songs, arguing that he does not consider his rival relevant enough to warrant the mention.
He was responding to Burna Boy’s viral 2023 freestyle line urging listeners to “hustle so you no go fall off like Brymo,” which many saw as a direct dig at him. Brymo said he had already made his position clear both on social media and during an earlier interview on the Bae U platform, stressing that he was surprised Burna Boy had risen so high without realising how mediocre the reference to him was.
The singer, widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s most gifted songwriters and vocalists, went further to dismiss the significance of Burna Boy’s Grammy win altogether, claiming it was not earned but bought.
Speaking partly in Pidgin English and Yoruba, Brymo also disclosed that he had personally been offered the chance to purchase a BET award for ten thousand dollars, using the claim to question whether Burna Boy possesses genuine musical ability to write, sing, and perform. He added that Burna Boy had offended him and that he intends to exact what he described as full revenge.
The latest jab is the newest chapter in a rivalry stretching back to 2023, when Brymo first accused Burna Boy of lifting material from his unreleased project “Macabre” for two songs, “City Boy” and “I Told Them,” off Burna Boy’s seventh studio album. Brymo has since accused Burna Boy of sending thugs after him and claimed that fellow Afrobeats stars Davido and 2Baba also harbour hostility toward him. Burna Boy has largely responded only in veiled fashion, previously mocking Brymo’s sound as “Yoruba proverb music” while Brymo, in turn, has urged the genre’s biggest names to stop chasing pop stardom and pursue more meaningful artistic direction.
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