Haviah Mighty

Toronto-born rapper Haviah Mighty lives up to her name. She blends her skills as a vocalist, producer, songwriter, and performer to create deeply personal tracks that also feel accessible to her millions of listeners. Exploring themes of Black empowerment, queerness, and feminism, you can’t help but hear her passion in every bar. “I love making music with my entire soul,” Mighty tells GO. Having landed several award nominations and accolades since her debut album 13th Floor, released in 2019, the artist is only moving up in the rap world. “I want to keep making great music and taking artistic chances. I want to magnify the things I don’t even know that I know,” she says. “I want to tell stories through my albums and release art that I’m proud of,” she continued. Her identity as a Black queer woman is central to her work, especially in a male-dominated genre like rap. “Confronting discomfort has always been an anchor in my music. Being queer challenged the identity I ascribed to myself. It fragmented the artificial parts of my identity that I clung to. It exposed truths I wasn’t ready for.” –ER