REALigion, but it is certainly one of the weirdest. “Murder” is not the best song on Chainz’s breakout mixtape T.R.U. The inclusion of Big K.R.I.T., another southern rap scholar, works masterfully, too.
He hadn’t reached his most lyrically potent phase yet, but just like Pimp, he brought a preternatural swagger that complimented the down-to-earth baritone of Bun B.Ī true student of UGK, Eightball and M.J.G., Chainz makes the case that he could have thrived in the same era as his predecessors atop this bluesy, guitar-and-sax laden instrumental.
This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.Ģ Chainz never had the chance to work with Pimp C, but it’s clear from songs like “Pimp C Back” and the excellent “Pimps (Remix)” that the shadow of Chad Butler loomed large over him. Thanks to an incendiary Lil Wayne hook and a booming beat from M16, Playaz Circle had scored a major crossover hit with “Duffle Bag Boy,” but the critical response to the album itself and the lack of a successful second single didn’t exactly signal longevity for Tity or Dolla Boy. Reid, ‘Duffle Bag’ is just a seed,” he raps resolutely. “You see, I’m something that you never seen/Dear Mr. At the time, it was hard to picture 2 Chainz – then calling himself Tity Boi – lasting in rap for well over a decade. Reid.” The song is a mission statement in the form of a letter to the then-Def Jam label head. But a charming earnestness came through, particularly on Supply & Demand opener “Dear Mr. The flows are slow and simple, and the occasional excellent bar (“Walk into the Gucci store, honey, I'm home”) is overshadowed by a clunker (“I was so hungry, I could eat a house/Then shit it out, ‘til I figured out a different route”). 2 Chainz’s rapping on the pair of albums he made as part of Playaz Circle is nowhere near his peak form.
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