Veteran Nollywood actor Patrick Doyle has tarnished Grammy-winning musician Burna Boy by calling him a monster.
Patrick Doyle said that Burna Boy wasn’t deserved of the praise being given to him because he hadn’t accomplished anything even halfway noteworthy.
He believes that great musicians like Sunny Ade, Fela Anikulapo, Mabel Fashek, and others have successfully negotiated the challenging landscape of music.
Also, the actor He counseled modern artists on the value of humility and respect for their ancestors.
He closed his letter by saying that people shouldn’t help create an annoying and conceited monster like Burna Boy in his closing words.
In his words;
“The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly.
Burna Boy has not by himself done anything that can be remotely described as great. He and his peers are recipients of the labours of heroes past. They need to be humble and respectful of their diligent and truly pioneering predecessors. Great artistes like SunnyAde, Fela Anikulapo, Majek Fashek, I, k. Dairo and a galaxy of others who paved the way from the 60s, to the 2000s. Greatness and great feats don’t exist in a vacuum. Let us not contribute to the creation of an arrogant and obnoxious monster.”
