There are a not really a handful of Nigeria music hip-hop artists who are also or has featured in the Christian Genre of music, but then Christian Music and Christian rap music in Nigeria has been on a steady pace while hip-hop, Afro-pop and juju took the lead in Nigeria and Africa at Large from the Legendary Fella to the youngest Wizkid.

And to be truthful, even traditional home made songs otherwise known as Orin Ibile in the Yoruba language (Umu Obiligbo, Mc Oluomo, Pasuma) are even much more streamed then the christian genre of music whereas Nigeria is amongst the list of one of the most religious countries in the world.

Further research shows that Gospel music in Nigeria dates back to the 16th Century. During the time when the catholic missionaries arrived in the ancient Benin kingdom for their evangelical mission, and with their arrival came the introduction of liturgical music. Also, The coming of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) which birthed the then popular and still popular Bishop Ajayi Crowther created wide-spread evangelism across Nigeria as at that time in the 19th century and choral music was introduced. I can categorically tell you that, the above mentioned Liturgical Music of the then Catholics and the Choral Music otherwise known as choir music championed the introduction of christian music in what we now have in Nigeria today.

Below is an almost complete list of popular christian musicians we have in Nigeria today.

Sinach

Tope Alabi

Sammie Okposo

Nathaniel Bassey

Mercy Chinwo

TY Bello

Buchi Atuonwu

Shola Allyson

Funmi Aragbaye

Bola Are

Temitope Fabiyi

Noella Uloko

Harcourt Whyte

Adekunle Adeyoola

Kunle Ajayi

Chris Delvan Gwamna

Dee Doris

Eben (singer)

Alice Edun

Frank Edwards (gospel musician)

Dizzy

Ada Ehi

Ojo Ade

Joseph Adebayo Adelakun

Joe Praize

Psalmos

N Nosa (musician)

Patty Obasi

Obiwon

Enkay Ogboruche

Dunni Olanrewaju

Yeka Onka

Panam Percy

Paul Princess Peters

Rozey

Samsong

Falola Oritse Femi

Lara George

Femi Jacobs Jahdiel

Kefee Abiodun Koya

Nikki Laoye

Mega 99

Mr Laazis

Christ Embassy seem to top the list of churches who have sponsored or birthed the most prominent christian musicians we have in Nigeria today, a whole lot of the most popular to the least popular christian musicians we have in Nigeria today have their roots in the Christ embassy church – it is easy to conclude that Christ embassy have produced more successful christian musicians we have in Nigeria today to any other church in Nigeria.

The Birth of Christian Rap in Nigeria

Over time after the birth of christian music in the 19th century, christian music has offensively proven its worth and continuous existence and has shown that it has come to stay and as well waxing stronger by the day especially now that the world is going through a whole of economic crisis. and Just like christian music the Christian Rap popularly known as Gospel Hip-Hop also have its roots in the 19th century and was introduced in the United State with little or no stream then, but over time the christian hip-hop has also found a way to fit into our current lifestyle in the 21st Century, over time the Christian Music has grown and taken more shape to fit into the current lifestyle of the type of world we found ourselves today. The first-ever made Christian hip-hop music was titled Jesus Christ (The Gospel Beat)” by  McSweet and the ever first Christian hip-hop album ever released was Bible Break by Stephen Wiley which happened to be a huge success back then in the 19th century.

Now currently in Nigeria, Christian rap or Christian Hip-hop (Gospel Hip-hop) has as well found a way into the christian music industry and its currently waxing stronger by the day and as well effective in the lives of many young lads and youths of these century, and below is a handful of the list of christian rap musicians we have in Nigeria today are, Tobechukwu Nwigwe popularly referred to as ‘Tobe Nwigwe’, Limoblaze, Wande, TB-One, Ami, S.O (Seun Otukpe), Shope, FC Beatz, Nolly.

Like i said christian rap has come to stay and the list is currently on the growth level as christian rap is still relatively new in Nigeria and its wealth is still very much untapped.

List of Nigerian hip-hop singers who also sing gospel songs

Like mentioned earlier on this thread, I said there are only a handful of hip-hop artists who also sing gospel songs or have one way or the other sing gospel or christian related songs or even get featured in christian music as the genre of both music does not in any way flow together.

1. Praiz: Praise Ugbede Adejo who came to limelight after being the second runner-up at the maiden season of Project Fame West Africa is a popular R&B singer who was born in 8 March 1984 and as well known by his stage name as Praiz, he is also a songwriter and a producer as well. Praiz father was a pastor and that was what influenced his choice of music in his early life after he came to limelight, Praiz was a christian music singer and his style of music is gospel hip-hop as can be seen in his 2014 Album ‘Rich and Famous’ and his 2018 ‘2 minutes EP’ and Stomp on the Devil Single. The now R&B singer has switched up from R&B to afropop with songs like “Oshe” and “Mercy”.
2. Flavour: Chinedu Okoli, the Nwa Baby hit song singer popularly known by his stage name as Flavour N’abania is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who began his musical career as a drummer for a local church. Flavour sings Igbo Highlife music known as orin ibile in yoruba, he is also a hip-hop singer as well as Gospel music singer as can be seen with pastor indaboski recently making waves online.
3. Odumeje: If you live in Nigeria and you don’t know Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere alias Odumeje, Indaboski, The Liquid Metal then you’re not a Nigerian at the moment. The Pastor who is behind the famous word “Who You” is the founder of Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry A.K.A the land of freedom in Onitsha, Anambra State One of the most trending pastors currently trending in Nigeria at the moment, it will beat your imagination to know that Indaboski seems to be going into the gospel music industry as he pulls through with his soul-lifting songs, he has currently featured flavour in many of his recent songs, he has also featured Phyno and Umu obiligbo, it will be worthy of note to know that odemeje is a rave singer and i won’t be surprised when he finally dive into Hip-Hop, or Christian Hip-Hop.
4. Phyno: Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike (born 9 October 1986), better known as Phyno as his stage name, is a Nigerian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer who started his music career as a producer in 2003, and is renowned for rapping in Igbo language. His debut studio album No Guts No Glory was released in 2014, Phyno has also featured in a gospel song with odumeje titled Deal with it.
5. Umu Obiligbo: Okpuozor and Akunwafor Obiligbo junior, popularly known as Umu Obiligbo are two brothers from the same parents. They were born and brought up in Anambra State Nigeria and are very popular for their Igbo Highlife music and they have been featured in many hip-hop songs with Phyno, Flavour, Davido, Larry Gaaga as can be seen in Doubting Thomas and Awele is is currently being featured in one of odemeje’s igbo christian music.

Is there any hip-hop to christian music artiste we didn’t get to mention? do us the justice of mentioning by using the comment section, Thank You!