Although Ahmad “Belly” Balshe had been rapping for well over a decade in his adopted hometown of Ottawa, Canada—even garnering a Juno Award in 2008 for Rap Recording of the Year for The Revolution—it wasn't until 2015's mixtape Up for Days that the rest of the world started to take notice. On it, the Palestine-born rapper brought his effortlessly laidback, sink-into-the-couch flow to jams with The Weeknd (“Might Not”) and Travis Scott (“White Girls”). Writing a handful of songs for The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness only galvanized Belly's growing impact; guests like Waka Flocka Flame, Juicy J, and Lil Wayne packed his 2016 mixtape Another Day in Paradise.