Canadian Hip Hop
Canadian hip hop is rap music made in Canada, with its largest scenes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
The scene began in the 1980s, and Maestro Fresh Wes scored an early national hit with Let Your Backbone Slide in 1989. Caribbean immigrant communities shape the Toronto sound, while Quebec has a large French-language rap scene of its own. Since the late 2000s, Toronto artists led by Drake have made a moody, melodic style known around the world.
Artists it is known for: Maestro Fresh Wes, Kardinal Offishall, Drake.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Canada, 1980s
- Also called
- canadian rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 27%
About 22,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have canadian hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Canadian Hip Hop artists
Drake
Tory Lanez
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Night Lovell
Dax
Roy Woods
BellyThe canadian hip hop 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.