Religion suddenly become so ubiquitous? By this point, the narrative is familiar: Regionally popular rapper releases a steady stream of free music (“constantly, constantly in the studio,” he’d insisted on that 2007 intro), each turning a few more heads and commanding a few more downloads than the last. So how did the rapper who still went by the not-as-vulgar-as-it-sounds Tity Boi all the way up until November 2011’s underground smash T.R.U. The hardest-working man in an industry full of them, he’s contributed verses to songs by everyone from Lil Chuckee to DJ Khaled, 8Ball to Meek Mill, Yo Gotti to Justin Bieber, Kanye West to Nicki Minaj, all while touring the country alongside Drake’s Club Paradise revue. “We back,” he pronounced, “and I know a lot of y’all feel like, ‘You never was here.'”įive years and one high-profile name-change later, now working as a solo artist, Epps is back again, silencing those skeptics without having to address them directly. Once upon a time, before 2 Chainz was 2 Chainz - back when he was barely Tity Boi - the man who we’ll for the moment refer to as Taheed Epps opened his duo Playaz Circle’s 2007 major-label debut with a defensive spoken-word intro.
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