October 25, (THEWILL) – Afrobeats artist, Olawale Ibrahim Ashimi, better known as Brymo, has accused Grammy Award winning African Giant, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burnaboy, of song theft.
Brymo alleged that Burna Boy’s ‘City Boys’ and ‘I Told Them’ sampled the album title track of his unreleased album, ‘Macabre.’
Brymo wrote on his Instagram handle; “By end of this year y’all will recollect that ‘Macabre’ wasn’t released when in the public, and as privately as it gets .: ‘city boy’.. and ‘I Told You’ were fed to Burna Boy..
“Former of the track titles I mentioned above is there to point me to the fact that the latter, and his album title is the hook I sing on my album title track ‘Macabre’.. burna na really boy.. and that’s a crime.!! An actual crime…To do time for… and if una like make una resurrect legends to come complain about stolen songs… una go regret this shit to numerous degrees… shey una no dey hear word !!.”
