Grammy-winning Nigerian music act, Burna Boy has opened up on how he recorded his first song at the age of 13.

In a recent chat with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, the self-acclaimed African Giant narrated how he recorded his first song by himself using an old tape recorder.

In his words, “The First song I ever recorded was by myself, you wouldn’t even believe this. I had a tape, a radio and I had a tape recorder, whatever, and I would use the beat from video games and some shit.”

Continuing, he said, “So I used one from NBA Street, Volume II, I think, one from Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, it was one of the GTAs, one of the early GTAs, I guess. So the first song I recorded was with that, playing that beat and then recording and then, yeah, that’s how it went. How old was I, man? I don’t know, man. I can’t remember. Yeah, around 13.”

Burna Boy recently released his eighth studio album, ‘No Sign of Weakness,’ and is set for a world tour by September 2025.