Daniel Regha, a well known Twitter critic and character, not too long ago highlighted a remark made by Grammy award-winning rapper Burna Boy relating to his use of songwriters.
Burna Boy has brazenly mentioned that he doesn’t use songwriters whereas composing music, and that any individuals credited on his tracks are producers or featured artists, not writers.
Burna Boy said that he stands out on this facet. He proudly recognized himself an Odogwu and said that he’s absolutely answerable for the phrases of his songs, with no exterior help.
“Any identify you see credited on my songs are solely producers of the songs or featured artists not writers. However for some motive the western world considers producers as writers of the instrumentals they usually simply throw their names on there as writers. No one match write for Odogwu” Burna Boy mentioned
In response, Daniel Regha linked to a 2020 tweet from Burna Boy through which the singer admitted soliciting Peruzzi’s assist in songwriting.
Daniel challenged Burna Boy’s latest declare that he by no means receives songwriting help, mentioning that songwriting credit score is given to people who co-wrote or participated to the writing course of.
He emphasised the excellence between Burna Boy’s previous acknowledgement of labor with Peruzzi as a songwriter and his current place on songwriting credit.
He reminded Burna Boy that claiming sole credit score for composition violates the trade precept of giving credit score solely the place it’s due.
Quoting Burna boy’s submit on X , Daniel wrote:
“Burna, this was u in 2020 giving credit score to Peruzzi as a songwriter, however abruptly no person writes for u? For the report, nobody will get songwriting credit score except they co-wrote or contributed to writing the music, so that you’re assertion isn’t legitimate”.