Yaw Tog

Yaw Tog is Thorsten Owusu Gyimah, a rapper born in Kumasi on 8 May 2003 and raised in Santasi. The video director Koo Poku discovered him while he was still a student at Opoku Ware Senior High School.

In 2020, at 17, he released “Sore” with O’Kenneth, City Boy, Reggie and Jay Bahd. The Twi-language drill song became the anthem of Kumasi’s Asakaa movement, and its remix with Kwesi Arthur and the British rapper Stormzy took it worldwide. He also featured on Kweku Darlington’s “Sika Aba Fie”, one of the biggest Ghanaian songs of 2021. He sat his final school exams that same year.

His projects are the Time EP (2021), Young & Matured (2024) and Tog City (2025), which includes “Miracle” with Stonebwoy and “City Boy” with Darkovibes. His other singles include “Y33gye”, “Fake Ex” and “Azul” with Bad Boy Timz.