Isaiah Faber (born March 31, 1999), better known by his stage name Powfu, is a Canadian rapper from Vancouver, British Columbia. The majority of his music contains themes of melancholic heartbreak and somber relationships.

Powfu has stated that his name is meaningless and is just a filler name he thought of so “nobody would know it’s me” (referring to his early hip-hop songs like “Pocket Change,” and “B L U E.”

He emerged on Soundcloud when he was still in high school, creating music about his relationships and stories from his lifetime. He stayed in his small lofi community on Soundcloud until his overnight success “death bed (coffee for your head)” which peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to TikTok, a video sharing platform which allows users to upload their own clips to short extracts of songs in the background.

“death bed” was released under exclusive license to Columbia Records, after a large bidding war between the two major labels. Powfu “hates deals” and states the only reason he signed to a label was “so that they could pay [beabadoobee]’s label enough to let me release it on Spotify”. It was released under the EP poems of the past“.

His later music still focuses on lofi hip-hop, but he is slowly experimenting with other genres. some boring love stories pt 5 and drinking under the streetlights“ followed the release of death bed, plus a two-part EP series titled ”tell me your feelings and i won’t tell you mine“. His debut album was released on December 2, 2022 with 9 songs, titled surrounded by hounds and serpents. It discusses how as he has grown in money and fame, finding true friends who aren’t just there to use him has become increasingly more difficult and frustrating.

Powfu is currently working on an EP titled flooding the gates, a joint-EP made with Ouse and Snøw. It was created on his tour with the same name.