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Motswako is a Southern African genre of hip hop most popular in Botswana and South Africa. The genre first originated in Botswana in the mid 1990s when a rapper called Mr T (Tebogo Mapine now popularly known as Nomadic) created a demo of the genre which received rave reviews in radio stations. It consists of a mix of rap lyrics in both the local language (Setswana) and English layered on a steady beat. Other languages used include Zulu French and Afrikaans as per the rapper’s origin.