Tobi
Toun
Rapper · Poet · Singer
Born April 26, 1996, Tobi Toun is a multi-disciplinary creative who enjoys creating and candid conversations.
Tobi Toun is a Nigerian rapper, poet, and singer whose music lives at the intersection of faith, identity, and the unspoken. Born in Lagos, he began releasing music in 2015 — not yet as a career move, but as a conversation. With God. With himself. And with whoever was listening.
"I'm a Christian, born and raised, and I've always cared about doing it right. Not that I've always done it right, but I've always questioned why Christian on Sunday had anger issues on Tuesday - as I struggled with my own relationship with anger.."
"...I've always believed that a world of true Christians would be a genuinely loving world. Meanwhile, many Christians aren't as loving." I've also understood, many times through my own life, why many Christians go around with bad behavior. So while I'm Christian, I hope this captures why I'm drawn more to conscious music. Why I have songs like Dear Old Friend that highlights my internal conversations about a friend that I missed and remembered how we just stopped talking, even though we used to be very close. Or songs like In God's Hand where I talk about my vulnerabilities while I was not putting out music".
As a self-described creative introvert, his process starts with honesty. He studied Mass Communication in school and while he has developed skills in the field, he has found great influence for it in his art. His debut project Whispers set the tone for everything that followed: conscious, careful, and built to last.
He doesn't separate the spiritual from the creative. Faith isn't a filter on his music, it's the foundation. Every song is an attempt to say the things that feel impossible to say out loud, offered to the person who needs to hear it.
Music has always been a core part of my life.
"I was telling a friend recently that I considered focusing my energy someplace else and just creating to enjoy it. But a burden continues to exist in my heart to create the kind of music I've always wanted to — honest, creative, sometimes experimental, yet excellent. What you'll get from being a part of this journey is: you'll feel heard, you'll be challenged to speak up, you'll seek to be a part of something God is doing in your time, and you'll learn to rest knowing He has your back. They say you really just need 1000 fans; and a friend also highlighted that based on her experience with my art, there are many fans of my art still undocumented — so we made a fan wall. If you're a fan, let's head over there"".