# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:49:24.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shad"
name: "Shad"
slug: "shad"
description: "Shadrach Kabango, known professionally as Shad or Shad K, is a Canadian rapper and broadcaster. Beginning his career in 2005, has released seven studio albums and three extended plays. He won a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2011 and five of his albums have been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, the most short-list nominations of any artist in the prize's history. In 2013, CBC Music named Shad the second-greatest Canadian rapper of all time. Shad hosted Q on CBC Radio One from 2015 to 2016, and hosts the International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution on HBO Canada and Netflix."
tagline: "Canadian rapper"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shad_(rapper)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1982-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             1.545787545787546
  historical:           5.990069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3387524/"
    handle:    "nm3387524"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shadk.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1340976"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "شاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_(Rapper)"
    title: "Shad (Rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_(rapper)"
    title: "Shad (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_(rapper)"
    title: "Shad (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_(rapper)"
    title: "Shad (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/15d58b2e-63f9-454b-845b-397dc443f17f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2276196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump