North Carolina Hip Hop
North Carolina hip hop is rap from the state of North Carolina, home to J. Cole, Little Brother, Rapsody and DaBaby.
Durham's Little Brother and producer 9th Wonder built a soulful, sample-based sound in the early 2000s that favors careful lyrics, a path J. Cole of Fayetteville and Rapsody followed. Charlotte's newer rappers, DaBaby among them, lean toward hard-hitting trap. Petey Pablo's 2001 hit Raise Up was an early statewide anthem.
Artists it is known for: J. Cole, Little Brother, Rapsody, DaBaby.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- North Carolina
- Also called
- north carolina rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have north carolina hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
North Carolina Hip Hop artists
J. Cole
DaBaby
ToosiiThe north carolina 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.