3/3/2023 0 Comments 2 chainz tru religion![]() ![]() REALigion (yeah, no, he’s not good at naming things) turns out to be the most solid and enjoyable listen of any of the non-ASAP tapes. All of these are perfectly solid mixtapes with plenty to recommend, and if Banks’s The Cold Corner 2 had maintained the intensity of its first few tracks, it’d be in this slot today. Since Halloween last week, we’ve been hit with a deluge of new mixtapes - from ASAP Rocky, obviously, but also from Freddie Gibbs, Fat Joe, Jim Jones, LEP Bogus Boys, Nipsey Hussle a couple of days later, Lloyd Banks a couple of days ago. But he has slowly matured into one of Atlanta rap’s most dependable workhorses. It’s your problem, not his.) 2 Chainz hasn’t suddenly hit on some new strain of genius, and he’s not rewriting any history books quite yet. If you’re still one of those holdouts who insists otherwise, I don’t know what to tell you. Think of Lil Wayne before 2005, or Rick Ross and Gucci Mane just a couple of years ago. Even Codeine Cowboy, the tape 2 Chainz released earlier this year didn’t much impress me its listenability mostly came from all the featured collaborators.īut we’ve seen this story in rap over and over: A talent once thought marginal keeps plugging away in the darkness, finds his voice, and achieves something like greatness. Until this year, his two biggest career achievements were probably as follows: (1) a strong verse on the excellent sole Playaz Circle hit, the Lil Wayne collab “ Duffle Bag Boy,” and (2) the fact that he survived a minor circa-2003 feud with T.I., which went down around the same time Tip was mercilessly curbstomping Lil Flip’s entire career. He’s been lingering around the periphery of various Atlanta rap-star circles for more than a decade now, as part of Ludacris’s Disturbing Tha Peace crew and half of the duo Playaz Circle, but he hasn’t had a whole lot to show for it. Until recently, there hasn’t been a whole lot of reason to pay attention to the man. ![]() If you think 2 Chainz has a bad rap name, please be advised that this guy spent years - years - working under the name Tity Boi. ![]()
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