Ghanaian rapper Shatta Wale has opened up about his fallout with Afrobeats star Burna Boy, saying their once-close friendship was ruined by rumours.
Speaking during an appearance on The Honest Bunch Podcast, the artiste said Burna Boy was among the few Nigerian musicians who would personally contact him before travelling to Ghana. However, he explained that their relationship later deteriorated after he dismissed several members of his team over alleged misconduct.
“Burna Boy is the only artiste who respectfully called me from Nigeria and told me he was coming to Ghana, that I should come and pick him up at the airport. I have never done that for any artiste before in Nigeria. And I felt some way because I was like, I know Burna Boy, but that time he was in his low time, so we picked him up at the airport and brought him down. I was showing him the ropes of Ghana like this is my town, I gave him a house, cars, and anything he needed. He wasn’t wasting money in Ghana, but I had this team I was working with, and they were messing up. I actually told them I didn’t want to work with them anymore. All like 7 or 5 of these boys that I sacked were calling every rich man and special person in my life to tell them I’m having sex with their wives,” he said.
Shatta Wale explained that although Burna Boy never confronted him about the allegations, he stopped responding to his messages and eventually cut him off.
“They told Burna Boy that I was f*cking his girl he brought to Ghana, and he just bought it. I had billionaire friends they called. They wanted to break me to everybody. When he left me in Ghana, things still went well. And when I saw Burna moving to places, I was always messaging him, and he didn’t reply. I didn’t know they told him that, and he decided not to talk to me.”
