Swae Lee, an American musician and half of the hip-hop band Rae Sremmurd, has disclosed that he is half Nigerian.Information Guide Nigeria

The rapper revealed this on Twitter when explaining why he affixed the Nigerian flag to a message declaring his intention to join the Amapiano wave, a South African genre.

Swae Lee took to Twitter to declare that he will be experimenting with the popular South African genre Amapiano, but he included a Nigerian flag in his tweet, which irritated South Africans.JAMB Result

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

The tweet didn’t sit well with some South Africans as they flood his comment section to accuse Swae Lee of discrediting their country, the origin of Amapiano, and wrongly crediting Nigeria.

However, Swae Lee clarified in a follow-up tweet that his initial tweet was misconstrued.

He explained that he included 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.”NYSC Portal

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