{"id":4204,"date":"2023-11-27T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/burna-boy-got-5m-advance-payment-from-record-label-rapper-phenom\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:06:16","slug":"burna-boy-got-5m-advance-payment-from-record-label-rapper-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/burna-boy-got-5m-advance-payment-from-record-label-rapper-phenom\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy got $5m advance payment from record label \u2013 Rapper Phenom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigerian hip-hop artiste Phenom has revealed that Grammy-winning singer Burna Boy received a $5 million advance payment before signing a recording deal with American record label Atlantic Records in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that Nigerian-American music executive Matthew \u2018Baus\u2019 Adesuyan, the owner of Bad Habit, an imprint of Atlantic Records, to which Burna Boy is signed, facilitated the payment.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Murder Dem\u2019 crooner disclosed this in the latest episode of The Yarns podcast.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that he would return to rapping if presented with a $1 million advance payment offer from any record label.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIf you really want someone like me to rap, give me $1 million. Lock me up in the studio. Those rapping in America, they [music executives] give them big contracts. Even before Burna Boy made a comeback to music, the guy that gave him the connection to Atlantic Records [Matthew \u2018Baus\u2019 Adesuyan], they gave him [Burna Boy] $5 million when he was coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phenom said raving rappers like Odumodublvck would soon quit rapping for singing because hip-hop is no longer lucrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone like Odumodublvck is given $100,000 advance by his label, he will have to drop rap, start singing and enter TikTok to make it back it for the label,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIf someone like Odumodublvck is given $100,000 advance by his label, he will have to drop rap, start singing and enter Tiktok to make it back it for the label\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Penom pic.twitter.com\/x8rEyMA7ho<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BASITO (@itzbasito) November 27, 2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Burna Boy got $5m advance payment from record label \u2013 Rapper Phenom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian hip-hop artiste Phenom has revealed that Grammy-winning singer Burna Boy received a $5 million advance payment before signing a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4147,4,15,1349],"tags":[930,935,171,180,1353],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burna-boy","category-entertainment","category-news","category-phenom","tag-boy","tag-burna","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-phenom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}