Burna Boy came into the 2024 GRAMMYs with four nominations, including Best Global Music Album (I Told Them...), Best Global Music Performance ("Alone"), and Best Melodic Rap Performance ("Sittin' on Top of the World"). The powerhouse was also nominated in the inaugural Best African Music Performance Category ("City Boys"), one of three new Categories introduced this year. Burna Boy is a previous Best Global Music Album recipient with his 2020 LP Twice as Tall, making him the first male Nigerian artist to win for an original work.
As one of Afro-fusion’s key contemporaries, Burna Boy is as much a student of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti as he is American hip-hop and R&B. On I Told Them…, he further leaned into the latter’s sounds, bringing in J. Cole, the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA and RZA, and 21 Savage as collaborators.
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