With this win, the African Giant becomes the first African artist to bag three BET nominations and wins consecutively, having won the BET Award in 2019, 2020 and now in 2021.
Nominated alongside Nigeria's Wizkid, Diamond Platnumz from Tanzania, Emicida from Brazil, Headie One and Young T & Bugsey from the UK and Youssoupha from France, Burna Boy, emerged winner, proving once again why he's one of the biggest and most successful African artists.
Receiving his award, Burna Boy says: "I made it this time to collect my award myself, so...thank you everyone, thank you to my mom, the most beautiful woman on earth, who normally would be making this speech for me because normally I don't like talking on the mic if I'm not singing. Thank you everyone and everything".
With the success of his groundbreaking fifth studio album TWICE AS TALL, earning more than 5M worldwide streams within its first hour of release; Fueled by such singles as “Wonderful,” “Monsters You Made (Feat. Chris Martin), “Real Life (Feat. Stormzy),” and “23,” TWICE AS TALL, debuted at #1 on Billboard's “US World Albums” chart while receiving unprecedented worldwide critical acclaim.
Among its countless accolades, TWICE AS TALL received the 2021 GRAMMY Award for “Best Global Music Album,” having already made history as the first time a Nigerian artist received back-to-back nominations in the category (following 2019's GRAMMY Award-nominated AFRICAN GIANT). What's more, the TWICE AS TALL album was named among 2020's very best by a wide span of global publications, including The New York Times, The FADER, Consequence of Sound, British GQ, NME, Pitchfork, Vice, and Uproxx, to name but a few.
The BET Awards, an American awards show, was established to celebrate African- Americans in music, acting, sports and other fields of entertainment over the past year and this past year has been phenomenal for the talented singer.
Well, Congratulations Burna👏
ReplyDeleteLuh to see you win,bwai.
Congratulations to you burna boy 👏👏👏
ReplyDeleteCongrats Burna🔥🔥
ReplyDeleteCongratulationsss!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Burna.
ReplyDeleteYet some people will say our artist are just hype. Smh.
ReplyDeleteMost of them are, not Burna though.
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ReplyDeleteHeaven knows i'm totally inlove with this young legend. Seeing him win and recognized internationally makes me so so happy, more like he's related to me. Congrats Burna sweetheart, truly an African giant who is definitely twice as tall and absolutely way too big. Please he looked like a tall dazzling diamond last night, he looked unreal but he's real. Mama Burna came out with her baby looking like the powerful upscale mama Africa that she is with the beautiful Alexander McQueen two piece she slayed with last night. You go king, we love you endlessly. 😍🦍🦍👑
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ReplyDeleteCograts Burna. Wizkid fc wiuld ve been all over d place doing what they know how to do best-insulting his peers and downplaying their achievements. That is if their god had won
ReplyDeleteAt least we go hear word from Wizkid FC, Congrat Burma boy, but Forever A Davido fan
ReplyDeleteCan't u just say congratulations without mentioning wozkids name... rubbish
DeleteMy Burna doesn't ever disappoint
ReplyDeleteCongratulations hun🎉🎊