But his solo albums got stronger, too: 2017’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music-a sly, derisive nod to the commercialization of street rap-proved itself a quiet classic, reshaping the aggressive boom of trap as a kind of modern soul music, lived-in, laidback, and heartfelt. For a minute, it felt like 2 Chainz was a finishing spice for just about every great dish on the menu. At first, the fame was for guest work: Kanye, Nicki Minaj (“Beez In the Trap”), Juicy J (“Bandz a Make Her Dance”), A$AP Rocky (“F****n’ Problems”). The jokes stuck: “Need a tat on my stomach that say ‘prawns only,’” went a line on 2017’s “Poor Fool.” But now they came on the back of memories of living in Section 8 housing, prayers that his mom would quit smoking, and real-life reckonings: “If I’m not successful,” he rapped earlier in the same verse, “ain’t nobody gon’ come console me.”īorn Tauheed Epps in 1977 in the Atlanta-area city of College Park, he got his start with a duo called Playaz Circle, but didn’t truly break out until the early 2010s. You could be the realest dude breathing…if he held his breath (“Birthday Song”).īut in a move that seemingly nobody saw coming, 2 Chainz became one of the most indispensable rappers of the trap era, a guy whose relatively late start-he was in his mid-thirties before he became a commodity-belied a stamina, perspective, and raw soul that made the rest of the playing field look green by comparison.
1 hits and multiplatinum albums, 50 Cent threatened to give it all up in 2007 if Kanye Wests album outsold his.
2 Chainzs solo debut is modest for someone thats benefited from a lot of hype. He’d take your wife, give her back-nine months later, Similac (Rick Ross, “Spend It”).
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