Philly Rap
Philly rap is hip hop from Philadelphia, one of the birthplaces of hardcore and gangsta rap and home to The Roots and Meek Mill.
Philadelphia was early to rap: Schoolly D made some of the first gangsta rap records in the mid-1980s, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince had pop hits soon after. The Roots added a live band and jazz feel in the 1990s. Meek Mill, who started out as a battle rapper, and Lil Uzi Vert are among its later stars.
Artists it is known for: Schoolly D, The Roots, Meek Mill, Lil Uzi Vert.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Philadelphia, 1980s
- Also called
- philadelphia hip hop, philadelphia rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 10%
About 8,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have philly rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Philly Rap artists
Lil Uzi Vert
Meek Mill
The RootsThe philly 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.