Based on ace rapper MI ’s analogy, the origin of rap can be traced to Nigeria . Using the Igbo culture as an analogy , the rap artiste said , “ My father is a pastor and I was born into an organisation called Great Commission Movement and my friends while growing up were all white; my first friend ’s name was Jonathan Skidmore . Then I went to a school called Kent Academy in Jos and it was also filled with white kids ; from there , I went to another school called Little Genius and this school also had white people there . So , I am a little bit disadvantaged in understanding the Nigerian culture the way every other person does and because of this , I am a student of our culture . This has made me realise that the first rap is from Nigeria . If you read Things Fall Apart, before an Igbo person talks he says , Igbo Kwenu , his people yell , hey. That is the hook . Before the person starts talking , he must say some metaphoric statements like you don ’t just see a frog running in the afternoon and everyone in the gathering would hum because they know where he is going to . He might not even need to say anything after that . The person that would respond to him would give a counter metaphoric statement. That is hip- hop ; it is elegant , classy and prestigious . It is called swag. That is what I try to bring into rap . ”https://punchng.com/rap-deeply-rooted-in-nigeria-mi/