Nigeria born award-winning American rapper, Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, otherwise called Wale, was on Jada Pinkett-Smith’s show, where he talked about Nigerian parents, their relationship with their kids, and how they show love.

The rapper, while speaking about men and their ability to show love, said the kind of marriage parents have has an effect on the kids.

In his words,

“I think you’ll like to just start to realize that your parents’ marriage had a lot of effect on you as a man,” 

 “I’m Nigerian. Both my parents are Nigerian and I grew up very Nigerian.”

According to him, he never saw his parents get romantic with each other, neither did they express their love for their kids in clear words.

For Wale, most of what he knows about relationships and the expression of love were from TV, but when he came home, what he saw on TV was never the same with what was going on at home.

According to him, the lack of emotion and affection between a couple and their children can affect the way their kids view relationships and navigate them.

His fans have however taken to Twitter to respond accordingly.

Some of their tweets read:

@Wale was spittin facts on this one. Nigerian parents barely show any affection or they absent from the home.

Speaking to your grandparents and parents together about love. I can’t even imagine that. https://t.co/hJC7IwEJTl

— Jimmy 3.0 (@itsJLawson) February 26, 2019

Wale spoke facts on the red table about Nigerian parents pic.twitter.com/KOo4BEa9UV

— My’Key Iso (@MykeyIso) February 27, 2019

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Nigerian parents are the best, we may not understand how they show love but most of them stay married till death

— Dizie_O ??? (@HRHdizie) February 27, 2019

Most of them are also unhappy & stay married due to societal/religious “expectations” but yea.

— Chinwe-Baby (@ChinnyOfLife) February 27, 2019

My mom literally told me she stayed with my dad because of my brother and I. Sometimes it’s also about convenience.

They may not love or even like each other, but they won’t just rip their lives apart because of how they feel about each other.

— anything else but green book (and bo rhap too) (@thatidomagirl) February 27, 2019

being married because of romance and emotion is a very recent invention. Raising kids and building a home together is the oldest reason for monogamy in history. Every generation builds on the past, maybe you will build on the emotional intimacy of relationships?

— Elijah (@EL1JAX_) February 27, 2019

Nigerian parents will rather give you money than say “I am sorry” for something they obviously did wrong.

— Ezekiel Gora (@EzekielGora) February 27, 2019

Honestly, most African American/Black households are like this. Growing up for us is focused around survival which in turn makes us grow up fast. It strips most of the time we have to actually enjoy childhood and grow emotionally

— FOLARIN ♐ (@stonedbuddha_) February 27, 2019

Fr tho, I don’t think I’ve ever seen my parents kiss before

— Peter Acheampong (@Bloat19) February 27, 2019

Never in my life have I watched something so relatable to my life.

— Nathan Tembo (@natembo47) February 27, 2019

Lol you know my parents.. they look more like coworkers than a married couple..

— My’Key Iso (@MykeyIso) February 27, 2019

As far saying it, maybe heard it once from my parents in my lifetime. They show it with actions doe.

— Jimbo (@Jimbo_Slice23) February 27, 2019