Artist Spotlight: Badx — Haitian Rapper and Dancehall Artist Making Noise From Canada
If you’re tapped into the Haitian music scene in Canada, the name Badx — spelled B-A-D-X — is one you need to know. The Haitian rapper and dancehall artist has built his name on a sound that fuses hard-hitting rap bars with dancehall rhythms and unmistakable Haitian flavor — and the road that brought him here runs from the streets of Cap-Haïtien to the airwaves of Port-au-Prince, across to New York, and now up to Canada.
Badx was born in Haiti and grew up in Cap-Haïtien, where his music journey first began as a member of the group Exhibition. When the crew later made the move to Port-au-Prince, things took off fast: Exhibition scored a hit single with “M Pap janm Bliye Sa” — Creole for “I Will Never Forget That” — and became a fixture on famous Haitian television, performing on Télémax and Miss Vidéo Max. They performed heavily across the capital, all while proudly representing their hometown of Cap-Haïtien.
The solo chapter launched while Badx was hosting a rap kreyòl radio and TV show in Port-au-Prince. His first solo single, “number one nèg Okap,” was a direct nod to his Cap-Haïtien roots — “Okap” being the Creole name for the city — and it announced an artist ready to stand on his own. He followed it with “Mande pou mwen,” a hit single featuring well-known Haitian artists Money Honey Mike, cementing his status as a solo force in the game.
Even as his own records took off, Badx stayed rooted in the culture — he kept performing non-stop while hosting his rap kreyòl radio and TV hip-hop shows in Port-au-Prince. He later moved to New York, where he kept performing and growing his audience, and he is now based in Canada, carrying the flag for Haitian music in the diaspora.
These days, the catalog keeps growing. His recent output includes multiple videos on YouTube — among them a remix featuring Haitian artist Toby Anbakè and an afrobeat single — plus his latest hit single with Bic Tizon Dife, “Lè a rive,” whose official music video is already featured right here on HitMizik. Other verified releases include “Fòw bay tap”, the “iam rap challenge version Montreal” video. With a sound that blends rap and dancehall with Haitian flavor, and a journey that runs from Cap-Haïtien to Port-au-Prince to New York to Canada, Badx is an artist you want to be early on. Keep it locked on HitMizik.