David Bars

New York rapper David Bars embodies his surname through a focus on layered, purposeful rhymes and substantive content. Beginning in the early 2010s, he issued his own mixtapes and steadily refined his craft until the storied D.I.T.C. crew took notice. In 2019 he joined Showbiz for Bars & Beats, linked with DJ Premier and Fat Joe on that year’s The Bar Code, and in 2022 issued Gunz x Bars alongside Cory Gunz.

Originally recording as D Bars, he dropped his first mixtape, The Wait Is Ova, in 2011. Additional mixtapes followed, and he built visibility via spots on battle rap platforms such as Cypher City TV. His D.I.T.C. connection formed in 2016 when he supplied the closing verse on “Gotta Be Classic” from the album D.I.T.C. Studios. The independent Bars Over Bullshit EP surfaced in 2018. D.I.T.C. then put out the Showbiz collaboration Bars & Beats in 2019, after which came The Bar Code EP featuring beats from DJ Premier, Showbiz, and Buckwild plus a guest spot from Fat Joe. The 2021 project B=MC2 paired him with producer Mono En Stereo. Unorthodox, recorded with Passportgift and Parks, arrived the next year. Bars returned to D.I.T.C. for the 2022 release Gunz x Bars, again alongside Cory Gunz.