“They Mentioned Their Names” Singer Brymo Reopens a Seven-Year-Old Cult Allegation Against Celebrities Burna Boy, Davido and 2Face

Singer Brymo Calls Out Singers Burna boy, 2face and Davido To Tell The Audience The Truth About 2019 Cult Incident 

There’s a particular kind of silence that gets louder the longer it lasts. Nigerian singer Brymo has been sitting inside that silence for seven years, and on August 19, 2026, he decided he was done waiting quietly.

Speaking on the Lahor Talk podcast, the singer born Olawale Ibrahim Ashimi went further than he ever had before in naming names. Not vague shade this time. Not a subtweet. He looked straight at three of Nigeria’s biggest musical exports Burna Boy, Davido, and 2Face and asked them, plainly, to answer for something he says happened to him in 2019.

“Which forgiveness? I don’t have forgiveness on Burna Boy, 2Face or Davido,” he said. “I want them to tell me that they truly don’t know about wetin happened to me for Chevron or not. When I got attacked. When I was lured into being hosted. Only to be told that I need to join cult.”

He kept going, and the frustration in his words was hard to miss. “And they mentioned their names. Why are they still quiet about it since all these years if you’re not involved? This year 2026 is the 7th anniversary of the incident. It happened in 2019. I’m not asking for an apology. Just be a man and say, ‘Brymo, I have nothing to do with it.’ That’s what they have to say because as long as they don’t say that, they did it.”

What’s notable is what he says he isn’t asking for. “I’m not asking for forgiveness from Burna Boy or Davido or 2Face,” he clarified. “I want them to tell me if truly they didn’t know what happened to me at Chevron or not.” Not an apology. Not a reconciliation. Just three sentences of denial if they’re telling the truth.

2019 Cult Incident Resurfaced,The Night At Chevron

To understand why Brymo is still bringing this up seven years later, you have to go back to what he says actually happened.

According to his account and it needs to be said clearly that this remains his account, never independently confirmed he was invited to a hotel on Chevron Drive in Lekki, Lagos, back in 2019. He believed he was simply being hosted, the way artists often are. Instead, he says, he was confronted and pressured to join a cult, and during that confrontation, the names of Burna Boy, Davido, and 2Face came up.

This isn’t the first time the story has surfaced. Brymo first laid it out in more detail in a series of tweets back in 2023, where he claimed seven men had attacked him at the Chevron hotel, and that 2Face a year after the alleged incident had personally confirmed that number to him.

From there, Brymo built out a theory around the number seven itself: Burna Boy has a song simply titled “7,” and Brymo has pointed to a Davido music video where, he claims, everyone in frame is wearing the number seven. To him, it isn’t coincidence. It’s a signal that the three men are connected “together,” in his words against him.

None of it holds up as fact on its own. The cult pressure, the seven attackers, the number-seven pattern all of it lives entirely inside Brymo’s telling. What can be said with certainty is only this: he has repeated the core details the year, the location, the three names consistently since at least 2023, and in all that time, none of the men he’s named have stepped forward to confirm or deny any part of it.

A Feud That Never Really Ended

Context matters here, because this isn’t Brymo picking a random fight. It’s the latest flare-up in a rivalry mostly one-directional that’s been running for years, with Burna Boy absorbing the bulk of it.

The public feud really took shape in September 2023, when Brymo called Burna Boy a thief outright, accusing him along with Davido, Wizkid, and Rema of borrowing from older generations of Nigerian musicians while sidelining the very people they borrowed from. He also took aim at the word “Afrobeats” itself, arguing the added “s” was a quiet erasure of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s legacy. Burna Boy didn’t respond with a statement. He responded with a freestyle a diss track jab that mocked Brymo, reportedly calling him a “failure.” Davido and the others stayed silent.

It didn’t stop there. In 2025, Brymo posted on Instagram accusing Burna Boy, Davido, and other A-list artists of “exploiting” younger talent by jumping on remixes just to stay relevant he called it “vile.” By mid-2026, in a TVC interview, he’d widened the target to the industry’s so-called “Big 3” Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy accusing them of hogging space that should belong to rising acts like Rema. Then in July 2026, on the NotJustOk podcast, things got sharper still: Brymo claimed Burna Boy had effectively bought his Grammy Award, and said he himself had once been asked to pay $10,000 for a BET Award nomination.

Seen against that timeline, the Chevron allegation isn’t a new grievance. It’s the original one the deepest cut in a feud that keeps finding new ways to reopen it.

What Burna Boy, Davido and 2Face Have Said

Nothing. At least, not about this. As of this writing, none of the three men Brymo named have responded publicly to the August 19, 2026 podcast comments. And that silence is doing real work in Brymo’s argument he’s using it as evidence, pointing out that seven years is a long time to stay quiet about something you had nothing to do with.

The only time any of the three has responded to Brymo at all was back in 2023, and even then it wasn’t a denial it was Burna Boy’s freestyle jab, mockery rather than a statement addressing the cult claim specifically, which hadn’t yet taken the shape it has now. Davido and 2Face, going by everything available in the public record, have never addressed any version of the Chevron story on the record not to confirm it, not to shut it down.

Who’s Who, Their Profiles

Brymo broke through in 2010 with a feature on Ice Prince’s hit “Oleku,” and has spent the years since building one of the more unconventional careers in Nigerian music independent, prolific, and often deliberately uncomfortable. Albums like 9: Èsan, 9: Harmattan & Winter, and Theta lean into themes of survival, abuse, and hypocrisy, largely self-released without major label backing. He’s just as known now for his willingness to say what other artists won’t a trait that’s made him both respected and, to some, exhausting.

Burna Boy

Burna Boy (Damini Ogulu) is a Grammy-winning global Afrobeats star, routinely named alongside Wizkid and Davido as part of Nigeria’s “Big 3.” He’s absorbed more of Brymo’s public criticism than anyone else, and remains the only one of the three to have ever responded to him directly even if that response was a diss track rather than an actual answer.

Davido

Davido (David Adeleke) is one of Afrobeats’ most commercially successful and visible stars. He’s named again and again in Brymo’s various accusations but has, based on everything publicly available, never once responded to any of them directly.

2Face

2face(Innocent Idibia, also called 2Baba) is a veteran whose influence helped shape modern Nigerian pop music long before the current generation of stars existed. He occupies an odd place in this story Brymo claims 2Face privately confirmed a detail of the alleged attack (the number of assailants) a year after it supposedly happened. That claim, like everything else here, comes from Brymo alone. 2Face has never spoken on it publicly.

What People Are Saying

Public reaction moved fast, and it wasn’t kind at least not in the comments beneath the clip that entertainment page Instablog9ja shared on X on August 19, 2026.

“Why is Brymo still dragging this same Chevron story in 2026 like it’s fresh news,” one user, @Savvy, wrote. “At this point just admit you are chasing clout.” Another commenter, @Vinchy Lifestyle, went further, openly questioning Brymo’s state of mind and dismissing the claim outright.

That kind of reaction isn’t new for Brymo, and it says something about how repetition affects credibility in the public eye. Because he’s told versions of this story more than once since 2019 each time with a few new details layered on, like the number-seven theory some people have stopped hearing it as an unresolved grievance and started hearing it as a pattern of attention-seeking. Fair or not, that’s the toll of telling a hard story more than once without ever getting an answer.

But not everyone’s dismissing him. A smaller, quieter group of supporters has pointed out that Brymo’s account has actually stayed remarkably consistent the year, the location, the three names haven’t shifted since 2023. For them, it’s the silence from Burna Boy, Davido, and 2Face that raises the real questions. If the story were baseless, they argue, a flat denial would cost these men nothing to give. The fact that none of them ever have is, to this camp, more telling than anything Brymo has said.

Bottom line

Seven years on, nobody outside that hotel room on Chevron Drive knows for certain what happened there if anything did. What’s left is a stalemate: one man’s detailed, repeated, unproven account on one side, and three men’s complete public silence on the other. Brymo has stripped his demand down to the simplest possible terms not an apology, just a denial, if there’s nothing to deny. Until one comes, the story will likely keep resurfacing every few months, the way it has since 2019, unresolved and unanswered, but no longer ignorable.

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