{"id":1200570,"date":"2022-09-08T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/i-came-into-industry-from-prison-burna-boy-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:38:36","slug":"i-came-into-industry-from-prison-burna-boy-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/i-came-into-industry-from-prison-burna-boy-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"I Came Into  Industry From Prison, Burna Boy Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has revealed that he joined Nigeria\u2019s music industry after he left Chelmsford HMP, a UK jail for young offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Burna Boy disclosed this in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Revealing his time in prison for the first time, the grammy award-winning artiste tweeted, \u201cNigeria real doesn\u2019t know me. I don\u2019t care to be the biggest Nigerian artist, I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n<p>\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\u2019s all just funny. Of course I would perform with my injured leg or even no legs or no arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Twitter | burnaboy<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has revealed that he joined Nigeria\u2019s 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\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[449,450,709,3509,51],"class_list":["post-1200570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-boy","tag-burna","tag-industry","tag-prison","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}