Chicago Rap
Chicago rap is hip hop from Chicago, a scene that runs from soulful, thoughtful rap to fast-tongued rhyming and hard-edged drill.
In the 1990s and 2000s the city was known for Common's reflective lyrics, Twista's rapid-fire delivery and Kanye West's beats built on sped-up soul samples. In the early 2010s, teenagers on the South Side created drill, a much darker and more violent sound. Chance the Rapper and others later added gospel and jazz colors.
Artists it is known for: Common, Twista, Chief Keef, Chance the Rapper.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Chicago, 1980s onward
- Also called
- chicago hip hop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 26%
About 22,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have chicago rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Chicago Rap artists
Kanye West
Juice WRLD
Chief Keef
Polo G
King Von
Lil Durk
Lupe Fiasco
Jeremih
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CommonThe chicago 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.