Luke Boyd (born December 13, 1977), better known by his stage name Classified, is a Canadian rapper and record producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.

Boyd attended Hants East Rural High School in Milford Station, Nova Scotia.

[1] He started his own production label, Half Life Records, and released his first full-length LP titled Time's Up, Kid in 1995.

[citation needed] With the support of Canadian grant foundation VideoFACT, Boyd released two music videos for the singles "Just the Way It Is" and "Unexpected".

[citation needed] Boyd's tenth album, Boy-Cott-In the Industry, marked a significant turning point in his career.

In the song "All About U", featuring singer Chad Hatcher, Classified shows the extent of his growth from his early releases.

In "Hip Hop Star", he eschews the bling-bling culture of popular hip-hop to remind people that life is not about trying to impress others.

In 2008, Boyd signed his first major label deal with Sony Music, and released his twelfth studio album, Self Explanatory,[7] in 2009.

[12] The first single from the album, "Inner Ninja", reached #5 on the Canadian Hot 100, earning Boyd his first top-ten hit and highest-charting song.

In March 2014, Boyd co-hosted the 2014 Juno Awards along with Serena Ryder and Johnny Reid,[15] and released a new single "Higher" featuring B.o.B.

On February 9, 2018, Boyd filmed a music video for "Powerless" in Nova Scotia, featuring native dancers and musicians and bringing to light the issues surrounding missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

[28] Boyd explores how he went from being a small-town teen to a big name in the music industry in the book Classified: Off the Beat 'N Path, which was released on April 30 2021.

In the memoir, Boyd touches on overcoming the challenges of being a young, aspiring music artist on the East Coast, the importance of home and staying humble during success.

"Life's a journey, not a destination," Boyd told Jeff Douglas, the host of CBC Radio's Mainstreet, in an interview at his home in Enfield, N.S., adding "My only scale of success is that I can come out to my studio every day and make a beat[29]."