Popular singer, Burna Boy, in an interview with GQ Magazine has revealed how he chose between greatness and death at a particular phase in his life.
Speaking during the interview, Burnaboy 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.”
He added, “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.”
The artiste further explained that he had to put other people first before himself.
He said, “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.”