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Five interesting things you didn’t know about  Burna Boy “Twice as Tall” Album

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For artists like Burna Boy, it takes so little to make a hit song but so much to stay relevant. “Twice as Tall” for Burna is more than an album.

Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu mostly known as Burna Boy is one of the Nigerian musicians whose talent was undervalued and Underrated for a while before his breakthrough. The self acclaimed African Giant having dropped four studio albums in the past is looking forward to making it five.

The afro-fusion singer announced he will be dishing out his highly anticipated “Twice as Tall” Album on August 14th. He also unveiled the tracklist of the album featuring local and international artists.

Burna’s “African Giant” album succumbed to Angelique Kidjo’s “Celia” album at the 2020 Grammy awards. The Beninese singer-songwriter and actress having won the World Music Album award three times (2008, 2015 and 2016), claimed the award again this year depriving Burna Boy another opportunity to win the Grammy.

In his recent chat with New York Times, Burna Boy claimed he never writes his songs as his vibes and lyrics just comes. According to the singer, music is spiritual, “I’ve never picked up a pen and paper and written down a song in my life,”

“I’ve never picked up a pen and paper and written down a song in my life”.

“It all just comes, like someone is standing there and telling me what to say. It’s all according to the spirits. Some of us are put on this earth to do what we do.”

To Burna Boy, “Twice as Tall” Album is a continuation of the gospel he has been preaching which is building a harmonious relationship between every black person in the world. He said, “basically continuing the mission I started, which is building a bridge that leads every Black person in the world to come together, and to make you understand that without you having a home base, you can’t be as strong as you are.”

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Here are five interesting things you never knew about Burna Boy’s “Twice as Tall” Album.

  1. Diddy Executive produced Burna Boy “Twice as Tall” Album
  2. The album has guest appearances from Sauti Sol, Stormzy, Chris Martin, Yossou N’Dour and Naughty by Nature
  3. “Twice as Tall” features one single ‘Wonderful’
  4. Artists like Telz, Leriq, Anderson .Paak and Timbaland contributed to this album.
  5. You probably knew this but let’s remind you that “Twice as Tall” Album by Burna Boy is him trying to bag the Grammy awards he lost to Angelique Kidjo earlier this year.

These are basically the five interesting things you never knew about Burna Boy’s incoming album.

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Nigerian Musicians Who Do Not Smoke Weed

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There are Nigerian artistes who have come out times without number to say that they do not smoke weed. While this might be surprising, it seems to be the truth.

1. 9ice:

9ice has said it times without number that he does not smoke weed. In his songs and interviews, he has always maintained that he doesn’t smoke weed for inspiration.

2. Slimcase:

While this could be very strange to so many people, it would be surprising to you that Slimcase does not smoke weed neither does he do drugs. He has said this times without number.

3. Teni:

Dr Dolor, the owner of Teniola Apata record label said the singer does not smoke weed. And overtime, Teniola has never for once promote weed in her music videos.

4 . Adekunle Gold:

AG Baby as he is fondly called has always said times without number that he does not smoke weed because he doesn’t need it for inspiration to write his songs.

5 . Falz

The rapper and activist does not also smoke weed.

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Top 5 Tourist Centres You Can Visit In Nigeria With Little Or No Money

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The Christmas bell is ringing and here we have come up with 5 places you can visit for adventure with small money.

1. Olumo Rock

Olumo Rock is an ancient adventure place in Nigeria. Situated at the heart of Abeokuta, Ogun State. Olumo Rock serves a lot of great ambience and it is a place filled with so much history. The price to enter Olumo Rock is around 2-3 thousand naira.

Not only will you enjoy the Yoruba culture, there will be someone to take you around and tell you the history of the amazing rocks.

2. Ushongo Hills

The Ushongo Hill in Ushongo town, Benue State is another tourist attraction you can visit. Located at Benue State, North Central, Ushongo hill has a good climate that makes it a gratifying spot for adventures and tourists. It is also one of the easiest mountain to climb among the hills in Benue State as the weather is quite favourable.

3. Ogbunike Cave

Ogbunike cave in Anambra is another place you can visit that you can spend little to no money. There are ten tunnels at the main chamber leading to different directions. Within the tunnels are big chambers and other tunnels of varying lengths, some of which are inter connected.

4. Osun Osogbo Sacred Groove

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Osogbo Sacred Grove is a sacred forest along the banks of the Osun river in Osun State, Nigeria. This place used to be a home of deities, there are several ancient sculptures, sanctuaries and shrines.

5. Mandara Moutain

Located between the Nigerian-Cameroon border is Mandara mountains where the view is said to be unrivaled

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