Hip hop spread to Nigeria in the 1980s.
In the 1990s, the record company Payback Tyme Records and groups like SWAT ROOT (made up of Solo Dee, El-Dee, Mode Nine, Mista Baron, De Weez & 6 Foot Plus), The Trybesmen ("Trybal Marks", 1999) and Plantashun Boyz became a part of mainstream Nigerian music after the collapse of pop trends like Yo-pop.
The availability of computers and cheap music editing software in the late 1990s and the 2000s enabled Nigerian musicians to achieve higher quality recordings which quickly won over the Nigerian audience. As Nigeria's Nollywood movies have done to Western movies, Nigerian hip hop has begun to displace Western popular music.
In comparism, hip hop came from out of Africa just like independence and civilization was given Nigeria from people aforiegn. Hip Hop originate from Jamaica and found a base in New York where it spread within and around the world. Little is known about Nigria's music history prior to European contact, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments.
Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music" because of its role...
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