Anti-woke Canadian rapper tops music charts with his controversial message

Rapper Tom MacDonald, who grew up in Alberta and British Columbia, is known for his anti-woke, anti-government stance  — and has amassed a right-wing fanbase for his bold lyrics — is rising to the top of mainstream music charts.

He was called “one of the most talked about new artists in hip-hop, with one of the most divisive personas the genre has ever seen,” in an Inked Magazine article.

In one of his songs, Snowflakes, he muses: “If you lie to the government, they’ll put you in prison, but when they lie to all of us, it’s called being a politician. You think taking guns away will save our kids from the killings, but your pro-choice abortion kills way more children.”

After a video for the song was released on YouTube in June 2021, he gained more recognition, including a Twitter follow from Donald Trump Jr. and an interview in The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator. The video has since been viewed more than 21 million times.

That same year, three of his songs made it on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to the music publication. In March, his song The Brave, with rapper Adam Calhoun, topped Billboard’s album sales chart.