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Born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised between Lagos and Toronto, the rapper singer songwriter (born Bennett Obeya) started writing music in his late teens, staking out an uncharted space at the intersection of hip hop, house, funk, and afrobeat—a colorful, head-spinning sound that makes him stand out instantly. thePDSTRN’s sound represents an ever-broadening sense of what rap mixed with a host of different sounds can do, imagining a borderless club world where affiliations of genre and region bow to the music’s overall feel.