Young Chop • King Chop
Over the course of the last few years, Young Chop built his name around production championed by Chief Keef and other Drill artists, but more recently the producer has spent time developing a rap career of his own. Chop's latest offering King Chop is hardly his first outing as an emcee, but it's quite possibly his most compelling.
Several of the album's 12 tracks have been heard before, but there's still plenty of new music to enjoy. Executive produced by Chop, Johnny May Cash, DJ Ben Staxx, and Save Money's Chris Barnett aka CBMix, King Chop surely isn't lacking monster production to back Young Chop's Chicago inspired raps. Young Chop has since moved to California like many of 2012's Drill class, but his music is still very much a product of a local upbringing. Although there are less then a handful of feature verses that appear on the project, the majority of those that do make an appearance are Chicago natives. Some old friends like Chief Keef and King 100 James to new collaborators like Vic Mensa and Lud Foe all lay verses alongside Chop.
In addition to the new music, we also get a new set of visuals for "Around My Way", the Vic Mensa and King 100 James assisted single that originally dropped in late 2015. The track itself was such a smash and crossover between two otherwise very different music movements in the city, it only seems right to revisit and re-highlight the single with this trippy visual.
