REALigion reminds me of mid-’00s albums by Southern rap workhorses like YoungBloodz or Lil Scrappy. And it’s also arguably the most popular Datpiff lists it as being more downloaded than any of those tapes, including LIVELOVEA$AP. 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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