DFW Rap
DFW rap is hip hop from the Dallas-Fort Worth area of North Texas, DFW being the region's common abbreviation.
The D.O.C., from West Dallas, worked with Dr. Dre as a rapper and writer, and Dre produced his 1989 album No One Can Do It Better. In 2009 Dorrough's Ice Cream Paint Job gave the city a national hit that reached the Billboard Hot 100. BigXthaPlug, a newer Dallas name, makes Southern trap that also crosses into country rap.
Artists it is known for: The D.O.C., Dorrough, BigXthaPlug.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
- Also called
- dallas rap, dallas hip hop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dfw rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
DFW Rap artists
Post Malone
Tay-K
Lil LoadedThe dfw 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.