Damini Ogulu known widely as Burna Boy has mentioned that his large rise to stardom, cemented by his recent 2021 Grammy award was as a result of his firm decision to choose between death and greatness.
According to Burna Boy he achieved his recent success on the global stage because it got to a point he realized that it’s either greatness or death.
In a recent chat with GQ Magazine, Burna Boy said,
“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.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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