{"id":2708,"date":"2026-07-08T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:05:55","slug":"burna-boy-is-a-cult-member-brymo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/07\/08\/burna-boy-is-a-cult-member-brymo\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy Is A Cult Member &#8211; Brymo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2709\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260708-115518-1-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260708-115518-1-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260708-115518-1-648x1024.jpg 648w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260708-115518-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singer Brymo has sparked fresh controversy after alleging that Burna Boy is a cult member and claiming the Grammy-winning artiste paid to win a Grammy Award, remarks that have reignited their long-running feud.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute dates back to September 2023, when Brymo accused Burna Boy of being fake and unoriginal, and stealing from older generations of Nigerian musicians.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned Davido, Wizkid and Rema, arguing that they borrowed heavily from veteran artistes while attempting to redefine Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>Brymo further claimed that the genre afrobeat was altered to afrobeats, a move he said undermined Fela Kuti&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>While Davido, Wizkid and Rema did not respond, Burna Boy appeared to address Brymo in a freestyle, rapping, &#8220;Hustle make you no go fall off like Brymo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview in April 2024, Brymo said he would never acknowledge Burna Boy in a song, adding that he did not consider the two to be peers.<\/p>\n<p>Brymo&#8217;s latest remarks have since divided fans on social media, with many Burna Boy supporters dismissing the allegations as baseless. Burna Boy has not publicly responded to the new claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Brymo has sparked fresh controversy after alleging that Burna Boy is a cult member and claiming the Grammy-winning artiste paid to win a Grammy Award, remarks that have reignited their long-running feud. The dispute dates back to September 2023, when Brymo accused Burna Boy of being fake and unoriginal, and stealing from older generations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}