Chino XL

On his debut album, Chino XL takes rap back to the hallowed African-American tradition of
capping, in which black kids stand in front yards and shoot verbal arrows into each others'
asses. Chino was the one who'd stun the entire neighborhood into silence with his
ruthlessness. Puns, venomous similes ("My company is fucking me like Arsenio does Eddie
Murphy," Chino raps in "No Complex") and quotes from the pop-culture spin-dial f... More >