Artists like Maxon

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by vocals and electric guitars that are aggressive and distorted relative to traditional rock music. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic, and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf, Grand Funk Railroad, Free, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock.

Donald George Ruffin, known professionally as Duwap Kaine, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his projects Underdog and Bad Kid from the 4, as well as his early collaborations with record producer Pi'erre Bourne.

Joseph Kirkland, better known by his stage name Diamond D, is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.

Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr., better known by his stage name Famous Dex, is an American rapper. His debut studio album, Dex Meets Dexter (2018) peaked at number 12 on the Billboard 200 while its singles, "Pick It Up" and "Japan" peaked at numbers 54 and 28 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100.

Axel Tufvesson, known professionally as Yung Sherman, is a Swedish music producer and DJ. Tufvesson, alongside Yung Lean and Gud, is a member of the Stockholm based rap group Sad Boys, which has gained notoriety in the cloud rap scene. Interview has described Tufvesson's music as "Incorporating eccentric, melancholy and sometimes even obscurely exultant sounds with the types of bass and snare big producers would die for", while Vice has described it as "sickeningly layered".

Troy Vashon Donte Lane, known professionally as UnoTheActivist is an American rapper and singer from Atlanta, Georgia. He is also known for his collaborations with fellow Atlanta rappers Thouxanbanfauni and Playboi Carti.

Christopher Reginald Travis is an American rapper and record producer from Orange Mound, Memphis, Tennessee. He began his career in 2012, joining the hip hop collective Raider Klan in 2013. Since then, he has formed his own independent label, Water Boyz Entertainment. He is a former member of Seshollowaterboyz, a collective with fellow American rappers Bones, Xavier Wulf and Eddy Baker.

Raqhid Jevon Render, known professionally as Lil Keed, was an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. He was signed to Young Thug's record label YSL Records, an imprint of 300 Entertainment. His 2018 single, "Nameless", reached number 42 on the Billboard Hip Hop/R&B Songs Airplay chart.

Thanapat "Nino" Bunleang, better known by his stage name Thaiboy Digital, is a Thai rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. Born in Khon Kaen, Thailand, Bunleang moved to Stockholm, Sweden at the age of eight and is now based in Bangkok. Bunleang, together with childhood friends Bladee, Ecco2k and Whitearmor is a founding member of the Swedish hip-hop collective Drain Gang. After working on multiple mixtapes, some of them collaborative efforts with other Drain Gang members, Bunleang released his debut studio album Legendary Member in 2019. He followed it up with Back 2 Life (2022) and Paradise (2026). In 2020, Bunleang started releasing music under the alias of DJ Billybool focusing on a eurotrance and hardcore techno sound, so far resulting in the EP My Fantasy World (2020), the full-length debut DYR (2025) and numerous DJ mixes.

Xavier Beard, known professionally as Xavier Wulf and formerly Ethelwulf, is an American rapper and songwriter.