What RainbowGlory Says on Toon Town Honkey, a Boom Bap Postcard From the Prairies
Saskatoon’s Nickname, Auto-Tuned Vocals and Boom Bap Drums Meet Prairie Farm Country
The beat on this song comes from boom bap, the hard, sampled-drum sound of nineties New York rap, and the vocal comes through Auto-Tune. RainbowGlory, an independent Canadian rap project, put Toon Town Honkey out as a single on 29 December 2021. A radio edit followed on 1 April 2022.
RainbowGlory has Toon Town Honkey in the playlist below, filed with our trap, boom bap and emo rap picks. Every article on the project is collected on the project’s artist profile. The song reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Start it playing, then carry on reading.
The style tags RainbowGlory uses are short and exact: Autotune, Boom Bap, Dark-Pop. On paper, they pull in different directions. Boom bap usually means hard drums and a head-nod pocket. Auto-Tune turns a voice into one more melodic line. Dark-pop keeps the mood low, closer to a late-night drive than a party.
Toon Town Honkey puts all three into one song, and it does it in 3 minutes and 38 seconds. That is a tight frame for three genres. It leaves no room for a long intro or a padded outro, so the bars and the beat have to carry the whole thing.
The project’s YouTube channel bills itself simply as freestyle entertainment. That loose description fits an act that releases on its own terms, posts its own videos and tags its own scene.
Toon Town Is Saskatoon, and RainbowGlory Uses the Nickname to Put Prairie Life Into Rap
Start with the title. Toontown is one of Saskatoon’s long-standing nicknames, alongside Paris of the Prairies and the City of Bridges. So the song points at a specific place before a single bar is heard.
RainbowGlory’s channel leans the same way. Its uploads are tagged with Saskatchewan, the prairies, farms and farming, and the song carries that geography into its name.
The official video makes the point plainly. Directed by Rochelle Naytowhow and posted on 3 March 2023, it carries a one-line description: rap music meeting Canadian farmers of the prairies, and this is what you get.
That line is the clearest statement of what the song is about. Hip-hop has always been local music, built on the streets, cities and scenes its artists come from. Here the locality is wheat country rather than a city block, and the video treats that as a reason to rap, not a punchline.
Toon Town Honkey by RainbowGlory Puts Boom Bap Drums Under Auto-Tune Across Three and a Half Minutes
The release itself shows how a small independent act stretches one song. The single runs 3:38 and carries a Parental Advisory label on its cover. The radio edit, at 3:37, followed three months later, a sensible companion for a song with an explicit tag. The official video then runs 3:22. Three versions of one record, each fitted to a different use, is a practical way to get a single further.
The catalogue around it has grown since. Full Stop (100 Percent Beef) arrived as a single in May 2023. The album This Shit Is Change turned toward chillhop songs drawn from multiple cultures, and This Shit Is Endless followed in 2026 with tracks such as Heaven, Winter Rose and Trust. Rochelle appears on several of those later songs, and the producer Interludist handles beats on others. Their lo-fi loop Du Hast Respect is described on the channel as a song about a generation leaving hatred behind and returning to respect now that they are parents.
Listeners who know Kanye West will recognise one half of the formula. 808s & Heartbreak, in 2008, showed how Auto-Tune could carry darker, sparser rap-adjacent songs. Joey Bada$$ is the other half, since 1999, in 2012, brought boom bap drums back to a new generation. Toon Town Honkey borrows a piece of each and moves both to the prairies.
It suits underground rap playlists, Canadian hip-hop listeners and anyone curious about rap from outside the usual big cities. So start with the official video, because it shows the farm country the song is talking to, then play the single.
From the RapStar.News Curator Team: “The cover runs a photo through a cartoon filter and puts the title in a thought bubble, so the ‘toon’ in the name works twice. A rap single that jokes about itself on the sleeve and still means its geography is why Toon Town Honkey earned a slot in our rotation.”
Hear the radio edit on Apple Music, play Full Stop (100 Percent Beef) on Spotify, and follow RainbowGlory on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Facebook.
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