American music Executive, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has made his stance on what he thinks Burna Boy’s new album, “Twice as Tall” is going get at the Grammy.
Burna Boy recently dropped his fifth album, “Twice as Tall” and as you can expect social media is buzzing with the news. The album has Diddy has its Executive producer.
The album features the likes of Senegalese legend Youssou N’Dour, Naughty By Nature, Kenyan afro-pop band Sauti Sol, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, U.K. rapper Stormzy as well as production from Timbaland, Mike Dean and more.
Burna Boy narrowly missed out on his first-ever Grammy Award this year when he lost out to African legend, Angelique Kidjo.
This time around though, Diddy wants Burna Boy to aim higher. In his words, “You know you’re going for album of the year, you feel me, not going for no African…” On a chat with New York Times, Diddy also stated categorically, “I’m on record that I like hit records. If they’re not hit records, I don’t like them.”
https://twitter.com/Diddy/status/1294012662037258240?s=20
Watch the conversation below;