21st March, 2020
Award-winning Nigerian rapper Jude Abaga popularly known as MI or MI Abaga, has named his top five Nigerian lyricists of all time, excluding himself.
The 38-year-old rapper who recently exited Chocolate City record label revealed the list of the lyricists on Twitter on Friday.
MI tweeted, “My top five lyricists all-time Naija excluding myself (hehehe) in no particular order would be: Mode, Ghost, AQ, Freestyle, and Boogey…”
My top five lyricists all time Naija excluding myself (hehehe) in no particular order would be
Mode
Ghost
AQ
Freestyle
Boogey(One criteria for me is you have to have multiple bodies of work to be in the list) this is just my subjective list.. what's yours? #GodsEngineering
— Yung denzL (@MI_Abaga) March 20, 2020
This is not the first time MI has expressed his admiration for Mode 9, Ghost and Freestyle.
In May 2018, when a user on Twitter asked him to list his top five African rappers of all time, he also included them.
“Mode, Proverb, Jags, Freestyle and Ghost,” he wrote.