Burna Boy has dismissed a claim by Logos Olori, the fast-rising singer signed to Davido’s music label, that he uses songwriters.
In a recent interview with City 105.1 FM, Olori argued that most big names in the music industry employ songwriters because of their busy schedules.
He also suggested that the “Big Three” — Davido Wizkid, and Burna Boy — occasionally hire music creators.
“Most people that shame artists for using songwriters don’t know much about the music business,” he said.
“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.”
However, the self-proclaimed ‘African Giant’ took to his X page to argue that he does not employ the services of music creators.
The Afro-fusion singer maintained that names credited as songwriters on his songs are the producers due to western music policies.
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.
Advertisement— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) July 6, 2024
“Any name you see credited on my songs are only producers of the songs or featured artists not writers,” he wrote.
“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.”
For the record I have never had any help writing any song Ever. Except one time and that was with @Peruzzi
— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) March 31, 2020
In 2020, the singer admitted he hired the services of songwriter Peruzzi — but on one occasion.
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