Toronto Rap
Toronto rap is hip hop from Canada's largest city, known for moody, atmospheric beats that blur rapping with R&B singing.
The style most people mean took shape around 2009 with Drake and producers such as Noah Shebib and Boi-1da: sparse, moody, atmospheric beats and half-sung, reflective verses. Dancehall and reggae run through it because of the city's large Caribbean communities. Earlier Toronto rappers such as Kardinal Offishall leaned more openly on dancehall.
Artists it is known for: Drake, Kardinal Offishall, Nav.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Toronto, Canada
- Also called
- toronto sound, toronto hip hop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 26%
About 22,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have toronto rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Toronto Rap artists
Drake
PARTYNEXTDOOR
Tory Lanez
NAVThe toronto 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.