Songwriter

Maneesh

Maneesh Bidaye

Toronto, Ontario

Maneesh — Maneesh Bidaye — is a Toronto producer-writer who has worked extensively within the OVO and broader Toronto rap orbit. He came up through the same regional scene that produced Boi-1da and 40, and his name appears across multi-writer publishing credits on Drake projects from the mid-2010s onward. His writing tends toward melodic loops, layered keyboards, and clean drum programming that fits naturally alongside the OVO house style. Outside Drake he has co-written and produced for Tory Lanez, NAV, and other Toronto-affiliated artists, plus a range of US rappers who pass through the city's production camps. His Drake credits are typically as part of larger production teams rather than as a solo writer, which is consistent with the modern Drake credit ledger where most album cuts list three to five contributors. The pattern reflects how the OVO production network in Toronto absorbed a generation of producer-writers in the late 2010s, with Maneesh among the most reliably placed of that cohort. His footprint is the kind that doesn't headline credit lists but recurs steadily across the catalog from Views through For All the Dogs.