{"id":195583,"date":"2020-02-21T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195583"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:15:44","slug":"burna-boy-stole-most-of-his-songs-from-fela-eedris-abdulkareem-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195583","title":{"rendered":"Burna boy stole most of his songs from Fela &#8211; Eedris Abdulkareem alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Veteran rap artist, Eedris Abdulkareem, has asked Burna boy to apologize to Nigerians for saying that nobody pushed or supported him up the ladder of fame.<\/p>\n<p>Days ago, Burna boy ignited a controversy on social media after saying \u201che was the best and nobody paved way for him,\u201d in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>Burna has since stirred reactions from Nigerians on social media as some frowned at his statement, describing him as \u2018proud\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, Eedris speaking in an interview on TVC\u2019s \u201cEntertainment Splash\u201d urged Burna Boy to apologize for the statement because Fela made it happen for him.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the star stole most of his songs from Fela to become who he is today and also from afrobeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurna boy should apologize for that statement because Fela paved the way for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of his songs were stolen from Fela\u2019s songs and afrobeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFela\u2019s songs pass meaningful messages but I wonder what his music teaches,\u201d Eedris added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran rap artist, Eedris Abdulkareem, has asked Burna boy to apologize to Nigerians for saying that nobody pushed or supported him up the ladder of fame. Days ago, Burna boy ignited a controversy on social media after saying \u201che was the best and nobody paved way for him,\u201d in the entertainment industry. Burna has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,9367,14358],"class_list":["post-195583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-burna-boy","tag-eedris-abdulkareem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}