Cali Rap
Cali rap is hip hop from California, covering Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and smaller scenes such as Sacramento.
It is another way of saying West Coast rap. The sound favors funk-derived bass and club-ready beats, as in the Bay Area's pounding hyphy music and the simple, clap-heavy style DJ Mustard built for Los Angeles rappers in the 2010s. Regional slang runs through the lyrics, and the Bay Area has a long tradition of independent labels.
Artists it is known for: Too Short, E-40, YG, Kendrick Lamar.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- California, 1980s
- Also called
- california rap, west coast rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have cali rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Cali Rap artists
Mike Sherm
Shoreline Mafia
Tay-K
Larry June
YG
AZ Chike
Mustard
Blueface
24kGoldn
EBK JaayboThe cali rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.