‘There’s a lot of fakeness in the industry’ – Burna Boy

Burna Boy is not feeling the ‘fakeness’ that he says is a lot in the industry, adding that his bluntness is why he does not have many friends.

In a chat with Sunday Scoop, the singer said he does not mind being the odd one out, so long as he is saying the truth.

I am someone who calls a spade a spade. I say it as I see it, and I don’t like to sugarcoat things. I believe in being real and I don’t have time for industry politics.

There is a lot of fakeness in the industry; people say one thing, yet they mean another. For me, I wouldn’t say anything behind your back. I would say whatever I want to say right to your face, and that’s the end.

I believe in expressing myself immediately and after that, it’s over; I move on. But in this industry, if you speak the truth, you begin to look like the odd one out and that’s not cool. That’s why I don’t have lots of friends in the industry because I like to keep to myself.