Cloud Rap
Cloud rap is a hazy, dreamy style of hip hop built on soft, echoing, lo-fi beats and relaxed, often half-mumbled vocals.
Producers use airy synth pads, chopped vocal samples and heavy reverb, so the beat seems to float. It formed online around 2010 through rapper Lil B and producer Clams Casino, and early A$AP Rocky mixtapes carried it further. Sweden's Yung Lean later built a sadder, colder version. It is slower and more atmospheric than trap.
Artists it is known for: Lil B, A$AP Rocky, Yung Lean.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, around 2010
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 15%
About 12,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have cloud rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Cloud Rap artists
Lil Peep
LUCKI
$uicideboy$
fakemink
Xavier Wulf
Lucy Bedroque
xaviersobased
Feng
Chris Travis
smokedope2016The cloud rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.