{"id":27996,"date":"2020-08-11T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27996"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T10:58:47","slug":"which-spirits-o-burna-boy-ive-never-written-down-a-song-in-my-life-its-all-according-to-the-spirits-burna-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27996","title":{"rendered":"Which spirits o, Burna Boy? I\u2019ve never written down a song in my life, It\u2019s all according to the spirits\u2013 Burna Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burna Boy, the Nigerian songwriter, singer, and rapper who was born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu \u2014 once thought he\u2019d be content writing the sleek, self-assured party tunes that first drew fans to his mixtapes in the early 2010s.<br \/>\nBut as his popularity spread worldwide, the spirits who guide his songwriting had other plans for him. Soon, he was taking up broader, more consequential ideas.<br \/>\n\u201cMusic is a spiritual thing,\u201d he said in an interview via video call from his studio in Lagos. Wearing a white Uber jersey and puffing a hand-rolled smoke, with jeweled rings glittering on his fingers, Burna Boy spoke about his fifth album, \u201cTwice as Tall,\u201d which was still getting some finishing touches ahead of its Aug. 13 release date.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve never picked up a pen and paper and written down a song in my life,\u201d\u00a0he said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt all just comes, like someone is standing there and telling me what to say. It\u2019s all according to the spirits. Some of us are put on this earth to do what we do.\u201d<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Report and Photo by <strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burna Boy, the Nigerian songwriter, singer, and rapper who was born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu \u2014 once thought he\u2019d be content writing the sleek, self-assured party tunes that first drew fans to his mixtapes in the early 2010s. But as his popularity spread worldwide, the spirits who guide his songwriting had other plans for him. Soon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5775],"tags":[2108,2109,2110],"class_list":["post-27996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-burna-boy","tag-spirits","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}