Checkout Burna Boy's custom-made Beats By Dre headphone

Burna Boy has joined the select list of celebrities with custom-designed Beats By Dre headphones.

And we believe, the partnership is in honour of the Afrofusion singer’s mint 4th studio album, African Giant, which dropped Friday.

We found The Burna’s design to be in keeping with the Afro-futuristic theme of his latest album.

For Burna Boy’s custom piece, the matte black headphones were decorated with dangling gold cowrie shells – a symbol of wealth and status befitting an African Giant – kidding. But joking apart, cowry shells were the medium of exchange before the colonial time, so yes to the wealth status. See this informative easy-to-read article on shell money if you would like to know more.

Chelsea, lead designer for the Beats design shared the custom earphone on Twitter, writing:

“Hey y’all ,

“I got the opportunity to work with @AtlanticRecords and @beatsbydre to create this one of a kind custom headphones for @burnaboy, inspired by his #AfricanGiantAlbum It’s always a pleasure working for my favorite artist.”

Hey y’all ?? I got the opportunity to work with @AtlanticRecords and @beatsbydre to create this one of a kind custom headphones for @burnaboy, inspired by his #AfricanGiantAlbum
It’s always a pleasure working for my favorite artist ? pic.twitter.com/l2hJBopWEs

— Chels (@Afro_child) July 27, 2019

And if you think the design is on the monstrous side, you will not be incorrect. But the designers didn’t have functionality in mind when they came up with the piece.

“The idea was for it to be something avant-garde, not thinking about the functionality of it. An actual statement, something that will be kept in a glass box to mark a moment,” shares Chelsea. So, yes, it’s all about showcasing wealth, init?

With this piece, Burna Boy joins the likes of Nikki Minaj, Wayne, DJ Khaled and some other celebrities who have had a Beats By Dre customised earpiece.

How awesome is that?