Burna Boy the Grammy-winning Nigerian artist, refuted the allegations made by Davido's artist Logos Olori who claimed in a recent interview with City 105. Fm that top musicians like Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy rely on songwriters for their music.
He said: “Most people that shame artists for using songwriters don’t know much about the music business.
As a musician you tend to write your songs most times when you are up-and-coming.
When you’ve 10 shows in a week in different countries, you’ll understand that you need a songwriter.
“Chris Brown has a songwriter, Michael Jackson had a songwriter.Davido is currently on tour immediately after his wedding. He writes his songs sometimes but most times he has to do the business part of it.
That’s how Burna Boy is, that’s how most artists are even Wizkid but they don’t just put it out there but if you go to Spotify to check for the credits of their songs, you will see that they use songwriters as well.”
Burna Boy, under his X handle, asserted that he does not employ songwriters, highlighting that individuals listed as songwriters on his tracks are actually the producers, following western music guidelines.
He wrote: “Any name you see credited on my songs are only producers of the songs or featured artists not writers. But for some reason the western world considers producers as writers of the instrumentals and they just throw their names on there as writers. Nobody fit write for Odogwu.”
This statement opposes Burna Boy's previous public acknowledgment a few years ago when he mentioned that Davido's artist, Peruzzi, had written a song for him. At that time, he stated that Peruzzi was the sole songwriter he had ever employed.
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