The Heat Index: CP • GO
The Heat Index is These Days’ hip hop column, showcasing a new hot record we can’t stop playing.
CP is one of the most interesting emerging rappers out of Chicago. There’s a distinctive darkness in his low, rumbling vocal register and thumping beats that separate him from the rest of the pack. Every line he spits is delivered like a Mike Tyson uppercut and the pummeling drums feel like they can shake the rims off cars. Even his breezier singles still sound like they were recorded in the middle of a Chicago winter night: murky by 4pm and a little bit disorienting. In his latest offering, the three-song EP, 3PEAT, the song “GO” (produced by cxdy!) flips Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo’s R&B ballad, “Nothing Even Matters,” into a futuristic trap record where menacing threats about lighting up someone’s Honda Accord and flexes are dropped without a second thought.