

It may be a coincidence that For Good Measure arrives mere days after TOBi took home Rap Single of the Year honours at the 2026 Juno Awards, but this collection of remakes is both a timely victory-lap totem for the Toronto MC and a gateway to new musical avenues for his restless spirit to roam. Recorded live off the floor with a four-piece band, For Good Measure sees TOBi rerouting his fiery Kendrick-esque flows through a smoky soul-jazz filter as he melts down the gospel grandeur of “Someone I Knew” into a cosmic, flute-powered groove and subjects the twitchy trap of “Hoodwinked” to a keyboard-and-sax-smoothed treatment that effectively gives the track a deep-tissue massage. The closing makeover of his 2020 breakthrough single “Shine” provides a particularly striking snapshot of TOBi’s growth: What was once a time-capsule emblem of that moody post-Drake Toronto sound is reborn as a stirring, string-swirled folk-funk fusion that confirms its chorus-line declaration—“you know I’m shining on”—is as true now as it ever was.