{"id":10303,"date":"2022-09-07T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2022-09-07T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:58","slug":"burna-boy-reveals-he-came-into-the-music-industry-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy Reveals He Came Into The Music Industry From Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has revealed that he joined Nigeria&#8217;s music industry after he left Chelmsford HMP, a UK jail for young offenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Burna Boy disclosed this in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Revealing his time in prison for the first time, the grammy award-winning artiste tweeted, \u201cNigeria real doesn&#8217;t know me. I don&#8217;t care to be the biggest Nigerian artist, I&#8217;m just happy I can do what I love and take care of my people from it. If you knew just half the sh*t I used to do for money, risking my freedom daily, you would be way happier for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI came into the music industry straight from CHELMSFORD HMP. I had NO idea I would even live this long. So when people talk about me now it&#8217;s all just funny. Of course I would perform with my injured leg or even no legs or no arms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Credit: Twitter | burnaboy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has revealed that he joined Nigeria&#8217;s music industry after he left Chelmsford HMP, a UK jail for young offenders. Burna Boy disclosed this in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday. Revealing his time in prison for the first time, the grammy award-winning artiste tweeted, \u201cNigeria real doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2023,5792,262],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-burna-boy","tag-music-industry","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}