Latest Release
- 17 NOV 2023
- 21 Songs
- LONG.LIVE.A$AP (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- Tattoos (Special Edition) · 2013
- Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz) - Single · 2012
- Fast & Furious 6 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2013
- Rodeo · 2015
- Upper Echelon (feat. T.I. & 2 Chainz) - Single · 2013
- STAY DANGEROUS · 2018
- Coloring Book · 2016
- Pretty Girls Like Trap Music · 2017
- Valet (feat. Fetty Wap & 2 Chainz) - Single · 2015
Essential Albums
- 2 Chainz is a hit maker, but Pretty Girls Like Trap Music shows there are deeper ambitions afoot. His production arm is strong—Mike WiLL Made-It, Murda Beatz, and Mike Dean all put in work. He speaks his mind, dissing the government and “mumble-rap” while Nicki Minaj references her Remy Ma beef on “Realize.” Pharrell leaves his platinum imprint on “Bailan.” Then 2 Chainz puts his life story out there on the revelatory “Burglar Bars”—the realest song he’s ever cut.
- Backed by dramatic beats draped with sinister-sounding synths, this former college athlete asserts that he’s a baller in more ways than one—whether it was as a young hustler (“Crack,” “Dope Peddler”) or as a current celebrity and ladies’ man, who sounds like he’s channeling Jay-Z on “Money Machine.” The raunchy rapper reconnects with his Playaz Circle partner, Dolla Boy, for “Stop My Now.”
Artist Playlists
- Check out the tracks that made 2 Chainz one of the most quotable MCs in the rap game.
- The Georgia rapper makes a dark art of the lowbrow.
Live Albums
Compilations
- Nayco & Morti-cole Records
- Rich Homie Quan
- The artist runs through his project 'So Help Me God!'
- DJ Jonezy drops a Rick Ross versus 2 Chainz guest mix.
- Two of the south's most prolific MCs compare their catalogs.
- Lil Wayne is back with exclusive mixes and special guests.
- Lil Wayne is back with exclusive mixes and special guests.
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About 2 Chainz
At first it seemed like he was mostly there for laughs. He was drunk and high at the same time, drinking champagne on an airplane (Kanye West’s “Mercy.1”). He’d take your wife, give her back—nine months later, Similac (Rick Ross, “Spend It”). You could be the realest dude breathing…if he held his breath (“Birthday Song”). But 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. 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.” Born 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. 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”). For a minute, it felt like 2 Chainz was a finishing spice for just about every great dish on the menu. But his solo albums got stronger, too: 2017’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music—a sly, derisive nod to the commercialisation 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.
- HOMETOWN
- College Park, GA, United States
- BORN
- 12 September 1977
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap