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ARTISTSINLINE

A global artist network

Meet the artists
behind the music.

Discover rappers from around the world, explore their stories, and connect with artists beyond the stage.

Explore ArtistsExplore the Map
Artists in the catalogue
194
Countries represented
69
Origin cities mapped
142
Burna Boy
DIVINE
Kendrick Lamar
Central Cee
Matuê
Awich
Nasty C
Jay Park
Stormzy

Photos: Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Bollywood Hungama, Raph_PH, 200izo, Arnaldo Jovem, Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, SMtamako95, Ten Asia, Raph_PH — via Wikimedia Commons, under their respective licences.

  • Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  • Mumbai, India
  • Compton, United States
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Fortaleza, Brazil
  • Okinawa, Japan
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Seattle, United States

Discover artists worldwide

One world. Every scene.

ArtistsInline is building a global directory of rappers and, in time, artists from every genre — organised by where their sound actually comes from.

194
Artists
69
Countries
142
Origin cities
31
Genres

Explore the world

Every artist starts somewhere.

The map plots each artist by the city their journey began in — not where they live now. Every marker opens a profile with their story, their origin city and their own channels.

Explore the Artist Map

One marker per artist, placed on their origin city

Open the interactive map
  • North America
  • South America
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Middle East
  • India
  • Southeast Asia
  • East Asia
  • Australia

Artist discovery

Discover your next favorite artist.

Filter by where an artist is from, the city they came out of, and the sound they make.

Artists

81 artists · showing 12

Explore all 81 artists

How it works

Discover. Connect. Follow.

Three layers, one path — from a marker on a map to the artist behind the music.

  1. 01Discover

    The map is the front door

    Start from a place rather than a search box. Every marker is an artist and the city their sound came out of.

  2. 02Connect

    The profile is the identity

    A real page rather than a database row — the story, the records, the channels, and where they came from.

  3. 03Follow

    The channels are the next step

    Every profile links straight to the artist’s own platforms — verified where we can confirm the handle, never guessed.

The directory by country

Artists around the world

Where the directory runs deepest today — and, by their absence, where it still has the most room to grow.

  1. 01United States31
  2. 02India18
  3. 03United Kingdom15
  4. 04Nigeria7
  5. 05France6
  6. 06South Africa6
  7. 07Brazil5
  8. 08Argentina4
  9. 09Canada4
  10. 10Ghana4

Browse by scene

Start from a city or a sound.

Every city with more than one artist in the directory has its own page, and so does every genre with a real presence in it.

Cities

Genres