Burna Boy fans can now watch the music video of Common Person, which the afrofusion artiste published on his Youtube page on Monday.
Dierctor K directed this video; he also directed that of Rema’s Calm Down, which on Sunday became the most viewed Nigerian music video on YouTube.
Common Person features on Love, Damini, Burna Boy’s sixth studio album released last July through Atlantic Records. With Burna Boy singing in a mellow baritone, the slow-paced song proclaims his affinity with the Nigerian working class, him singing that his wealth and stardom do not make him more special than the average Nigerian.
This music video gives literal life to that idea, various scenes showing Burna Boy performing tasks so mundane and middle-class, they seem a comical contrast to his celebrity. When he is not sorting a tray of vegetables, he is pounding yam with a pestle, surrounded by fawning women.
This video closely follows the release of the music video for Whiskey—also a song in Burna Boy’s sixth album—which was released last December. Directed by Asurf Oluseyi, the Whiskey video was released as a short documentary, unveiling bleak visages of a Port Harcourt blighted by environmental misuse.