I’M NOT DOING AFROBEATS, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS – Burna Boy

“Afrobeat is Fela Kuti. The African legend called Fela Kuti. That’s Afrobeat. Those who adopted his style needed to call it something to be able to identify. And somehow, they just said Afrobeat and added an S. I have no idea. Maybe it’s the UK or maybe I don’t know who. But it wasn’t Afrobeats,” he said.

Burna Boy added that his style of music is Afro-Fusion, an amalgamation of different sounds that embrace the African experience.

“So for me, it’s like when I started the Afro-Fusion thing, there was nothing that I could identify myself with. So I just said, you know what? I’ll call it Afro-fusion. Because it’s a fusion of everything, really. And the Africaness is the bottle that holds the whole drink,” he added.