American singer, Swae Lee reveals he is partly Nigerian

Swae Lee, an American vocalist and one-half of the hip-hop group Rae Sremmurd, has admitted that he is partially of Nigerian descent.

The rapper revealed this while explaining his decision to include the Nigerian flag with a tweet announcing his participation in the South African Amapiano wave.

Swae Lee had tweeted that he will be playing with the popular South African genre known as Amapiano, but he also included a Nigerian flag, which South Africans found offensive.

“Wait till y’all hear Swae Lee on Amapiano,” he wrote with a Nigerian flag emoji at the end.

Outraged South Africans trooped to the comment section to accuse Swae Lee of discrediting their country, the origin of Amapiano, and wrongly crediting Nigeria.

However, Swae Lee clarified in follow-up tweets that his initial tweet was misunderstood.

According to him, he added the Nigerian flag because he is partly Nigerian.

He wrote, “For the ones outraged about the flag, I put it because I’m partly Nigerian. I didn’t say anything about the creation of the genre y’all tweaking.”

Swae Lee added: “Bigs up to the South Africans for creating this beautiful sh*t.”