In the 1990s, the record company Payback Tyme Records and groups like SWAT ROOT (made up of Solo Dee, El-Dee, Mode Nine, Mista Baron, De Weez & 6 Foot Plus), The Trybesmen ("Trybal Marks", 1999) and Plantashun Boyz became a part of mainstream Nigerian music after the collapse of pop trends like Yo-pop. The availability of computers and cheap music editing software in the late 1990s and the 2000s enabled Nigerian musicians to achieve higher quality recordings which quickly won over the Nigerian audience. As Nigeria's Nollywood movies have done to Western movies, Nigerian hip hop has begun to displace Western popular music.
The African Beatz magazine, based in Nigeria, is a prominent African hip hop publication. Hip-Hop World and Bubbles magazines are other major Nigerian hip hop publications.
