Burna Boy: The Nigerian superstar talks RZA, J. Cole, getting credit and more with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe

Need some one-on-one time with Burna Boy? Say less. The Nigerian hip-hop star comes through with a full-fledged conversation alongside Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe dishing on everything from music-making and collaborations to soaking in his achievements.

It’s all types of big talk so to make life easier, peep some of the biggest quotes below and keep scrolling to see the full interview.

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music What Sets His New Album ‘I Told Them…’ Apart… 

It kind of showed me exactly the way I wanted to express what I was feeling and what my unit was feeling. The spirit of my unit. Just put that in because this is every day. This is a side where people don't really get to see because I don't really care for anyone to see. I have fun with it like this. But I felt like this time, this is a way... How do I put it? A more understandable way to pass that feeling and that energy across. And at the same time, showing you that's... Not you. Showing everyone, really, that the combination of worlds is something that we haven't really capitalized on. Because at the end of the day, once we're all unified, everything else, the fruits of that just take care of everything. 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music About the Meaning of the Album Title… 

…they say a lot of times that prophets is not really recognizing its own home and shit. So this one is for the part of my own home and the people in my own home who didn't believe or doubt it, or still doubt, or any type of thing. And not just them, it's like everyone that ever heard me speak in the past or when I'd first started. You can go back to my old tweets and stuff. I basically predicted everything that's happening now. So this is basically that. It's fun to tell people something is true, and they doubt, and then they end up seeing it. There's no greater feeling. 

Burna Boy on the Type of Credit He Wants… 

I'm not going to say I don't want credit because everyone wants credit for what they do and shit. For me it's more like I want credit from places where it actually matters. Even though in reality don't mean nothing but places where you can say why, you can explain and it makes sense to everybody. That's the type of shit I want. I want to go somewhere where it's like they see the work and they see everything, the journey and everything, and they're like, "This is amazing. Yeah, congratulations.” That's the type of shit that means something. You don't get that in my country. It means something to the people who are not part of the game in a way. It means something to people who have nothing to gain or lose and no stakes in the matter. 

Burna Boy on Being Proud of His Accomplishments… 

That's the thing I've beat my chest the most about. It's the fact that, yeah, not only did I do it on my own terms and all that, I did it against all odds. You know what I mean? And against the wishes of the powers that be in my environment. You know what I mean? So yeah, it's something I'm really proud of. 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music About Virgil Abloh’s Influence… 

Especially like Virgil was the heart of this s**t. You know what I mean? The heart of the whole fashion world, especially for us Black. Not just that, it's just the cool creativity in the man's head. This is the difference. You look at something, he looks at it, you are seeing different colors than each, you know what I mean? It's crazy. 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music About Looking Up To J. Cole… 

Burna Boy: Legend, man.  

Zane Lowe: Legend. And someone who I feel beyond just creatively and musically you could possibly relate to in the way he handles himself, lives his life and finds his space to disappear too. Is that part of the law of attraction to his work that you recognize in the individual?  

Burna Boy: Most definitely, most definitely. The truth is often hidden, but when you come across it and you are a person of truth yourself, you can't help but recognize it. You know what I mean? That's really the story of me and J Cole. It's like, I recognize it.  

Zane Lowe: Is that where you're going, do you think?  

Burna Boy: That's something I've always looked at, his sense and thought, "Bro, that would be a nice, very conducive way to end up.” 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music About Embracing Substance in Afrobeats… 

…you hear most of Nigerian music, or I'll say African... I don't even know what to say, Afrobeats, as people call it, it's mostly about nothing, literally nothing. There's no substance to it. Nobody's talking about anything. It's just a great time, it's an amazing time. But at the end of the day, life is not an amazing time. No matter how nice of a time you're having now or you had at some point or you plan to have, you're still going to face life. So it's like, for me, I feel like music should be that, music should be the essence of the artist, you understand? The artist is a person, like me speaking for myself, the artist is a person who has good days, bad days, great days, and worst days. And for me, if I give you something like this with my face on it, and my name, then I should be giving you that experience. That should be a window for you to see some of that essence. 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music About Collaborating with RZA… 

Yeah, it's been a great honor, man. He wasn't there. We weren't personally in the studio together when he did it, but when he sent the first draft to me, I could just feel the energy, it's like most of the shit is about, he's connecting things that have to do with photography, shit that has to do with the vision, like photographic shit. And he's made the whole thing, he combined and interlock and it's just crazy. 

Burna Boy Tells Apple Music “If I’m Lying” Is His Best Song Yet… 

I feel like it's my best song ever… It's spiritual. 

Burna Boy on Fela Kuti…

I am grateful for the fact that he existed in his time so that we could get and experience the true organic nature of what he was and the essence of what he stood for and the message he passed across to us. 

Burna Boy on His First Impressions of New York… 

To me, it looked just like Lagos, only with more tall buildings closer together. The same energy as Lagos. It's the same... Everybody's in a hurry. I felt like, "Wow. This can't be what they've been showing me on TV.” This don't look like TV land… this place is very sentimental for me because starting from PlayStation theater all the way to Citi Field now. It's been a journey. 

Burna Boy on the Benefits of Traveling the World… 

Man, the more I see the world and the more I experience just makes me understand myself a bit more, understand why things are the way they are a bit more. I just have a lot of answers to a lot of questions I used to have and previously didn't have answers for.

Post Malone: The Texas crooner dishes on fatherhood and aliens with Apple Music

It’s clear Post Malone has plenty to talk about these days. The Texas native, Utah resident comes through for a super in-depth conversation with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe and it’s nearly an hour of awesomeness.

From talking about being a proud papa to reflecting back on his classic ‘White Iverson’ tune, it’s all Posty. Tap in.

Post Malone on Becoming a Father, Slowing Down, and Taking a Moment To Appreciate His Success...

Post Malone: I guess having a baby really put a lot into perspective and it's really slowed me down a lot, party wise, going out and being crazy. But it's the most beautiful thing and I don't know. It's like I'm trying to get some land right now. You already know… the end is nigh.

Zane: You believe that though?

Post Malone: I don't know, man. It's weird. Yeah, I definitely do. I just want to get my stuff and I want to go out and do shows, but then I just want to... We got out of LA and now we live in Salt Lake. And that's like me... I just want to take some time now. And actually you mentioned all the accoutrement of success and everything that comes with that. Now I just want to take a second and enjoy it. I just want to take a minute and be like, it is that. It was amazing. It is amazing. But I never really got to stop and smell the roses. And then you get caught up in, it's not about the destination, it's the journey. And yeah, I never really got time or really had the bandwidth to experience the journey to its fullest. So I guess that's what I'm trying to do now.

Post Malone on Battling Social Anxiety…

I have a hard time communicating with people. And I don't know, it's a really... Especially now. I was saying before, whenever I was a kid, I would walk, run around, and I'd be like, "Hey." I didn't really care. Now, I don't know why. It's a really interesting thing.

Post Malone on Fan Concerns About His Health…

I mean, first off, I shouldn't have to really justify anything to anyone, but I appreciate the concerns that people... But then it just goes... It goes from like, Hey, I hope he's fine. But then the rumor starts that I'm doing hard drugs, which I've never done in my entire life. So it's like, oh….

Post Malone on The Process of Recording New Album ‘Austin’ and Embracing Guitar and Reverb…

It was so fun, I tell you, to play guitar on every song…I don't know necessarily if I've been waiting to make it. It's always something that's kind of been wanted to be made, if that makes sense. I don't know. A lot of the times we go in and we do the music and the melody has never really been...The way that I work it, the music and the melody has never been written at the same time. It's usually there's music there and then the melody comes after. But with that, just being able to sit there, like I said, reverb cross-legged here over in, I think Studio D… with the cans on and so much reverb…You know what I mean? And so it's really cool and it was a really eye-opening experience for me and how I could write music and how I could make music. And it's not just one way. There's so many different ways, like you said. It's just a song is there, you just got to find it.

Post Malone on Which Artists He Listened To As a Child That Influenced ‘Austin’…

I really never talk about Radiohead and how fucking badass they are. Never... Well, I talked about Stevie, but I love Fleetwood Mac. I don't know.

Post Malone Says Alcohol is a Weakness For Him But That He’s in a Good Spot With His Drinking...

Zane: I've never asked you outright, but I mean, do you think that you've come to the point where you can acknowledge that alcohol is a weakness for you? That it's a problem?

Post Malone: Very much so. It's very frustrating. But now if I do drink and I'm not doing a show or recording... And yeah, that's another... I have a very hard time expressing myself via recording if I'm not a little f***ed up. It's a good spot now because if I'm not recording or I'm not talking to people or if I'm not doing shows, I really do drink just to have fun. It's having a beer with my dad or with my bud.

Post Malone on Transitioning From Rock Star To Family Man…

I really love hanging out with my baby, hanging out with the lady, playing video games, and in my garage working on projects. That's what I love to do. And so it hasn't been that hard, but there's times to where you have...It's that one drink that sets you over, so you're like, you know what? I'm going to rage for two days. But the difference is I don't rage in social settings. It's usually me and a buddy. And we just stay up super late until the sunrise and we're just drinking and sitting out on the car and just hanging out listening to music. Removing the social aspect of it. And it's not... It's not full rage. And I think at those moments, I'm like, you know what? I used to go nuts and this is significantly better. I'm not running around town and I'm not... There used to be a time, especially at the beginning of our relationship, that I would just disappear and just go for a week. And I was like, oh man, that's so shitty. I'm such a turd. But now I don't. It's been surprisingly easy because this is the stuff that I've always wanted to do. I'm a homebody. I never want to leave my house. I never want to leave the property, and I just want to play games and watch TV and hang with the family. So I'm... It's been super easy.

Post Malone on Taking Mushrooms...

Yeah, I take shrooms… I like shrooms. I like shrooms. Not as much as I used to. It's really affected my short term memory... Maybe it was just a stint of habitual overuse. Daily. But now I take a little bar of chocolate with my buddies, a little square chocolate and just laugh and laugh and laugh.I was talking to a ranger buddy of mine. He was a ranger and he was saying they're giving it to guys for PTSD and stuff. And I was like, oh that's cool because a lot of the times, a lot of pharmaceuticals, they have negative reactions often. And it's cool to see that they're giving them this medicine and it's actually working. He was saying his buddy was going through it and it really helped him a lot. I don't know. It's interesting because it's improved. It has improved my view on things. Making the last record, I was so, so, so... Well, writing it, I was so, so sad. But now I'm so happy and it's definitely improved my viewpoint on life.

Post Malone on Time Management…

I don't know, it's just the schedule keeps getting... I find the more that the world opens back up and everybody's going on tour and everybody's doing stuff, which makes a lot of sense, but the schedule just keeps getting fuller. And now that I'm a dad, the schedule only got more full. And now that releasing new music, schedule gets fuller and fuller and fuller. But the one thing that's constant is the amount of time in a day and then the amount of time before we go on tour again or the amount of time before...I'm definitely more tired. Which I was always tired before, but now I'm more tired.

Post Malone on His Reputation For Being a Nice Guy…

Life's too short to be a dickhead. I think that's the Bible verse, right?

Post Malone on Preparing To Tour With a Full Band For The First Time...

Yeah. So we're taking a band on tour. First time. I think every record is super self-contained. You get a little bit of everything. Some more than others, but you get a little bit of everything and it's going to be so much fun. This is my first time with the band, so being able to experiment with them and see what new arrangements we can do with the music and cool transitions. We have a string section.

Post Malone on How He Defines Success…

People ask what success is. And success is being able to do what you want to do and not have to worry about not being able to. Does that make sense? I want to, I guess, incubate a creative and free lifestyle where she doesn't have to worry about that. You know what I mean? 

Megan Thee Stallion's really a college graduate

Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion is way smarter than you think - how smart? How about college graduate type goals? The hip-hop star pulls through with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe for a New Music Daily conversation centered on her new music, hitting the books, the Hotties’ loyalty and plenty more.

The interview clocks in at nearly 20 minutes and features Meg chopping it up over a flurry of topics but especially her newly released Popeyes Hottie Sauce.

Megan Thee Stallion talks with Zane Lowe about her mixtape, ‘Something For Thee Hotties,’ the completion of her college degree, new business ventures, and more. It is a busy time for Megan, as she spends her time collaborating across multiple genres with groups like BTS and Maroon 5, and working on her next album. Megan explains that she feels so grateful she has made it so far in her career, she couldn’t imagine slowing down now.