#NEW 2 CHAINZ MIXTAPE AUGUST 2012 FULL#

This year, 2 Chainz's grin infiltrated rap music from coast to coast. His energy is contagious, and he calls his 'big booty' girlfriend 'Big Booty.' It's not intellectually demanding, offering more pleasurable music experiences to more people more often. What he makes is not so deep into the trap spectrum that it puts off mainstream interest - a pitfall that's limited the reach of his predecessors, like Gucci and Yo Gotti. His allure is in the accessibility of his songs.

#NEW 2 CHAINZ MIXTAPE AUGUST 2012 FULL#

By then the 2 Chainz campaign was in full effect. Young Jeezy slowed his pace, taking three years to release his long awaited Thug Motivation 103 in December 2011. Gucci Mane, who largely inspires 2 Chainz's sound, served jail time on several occasions - one sentence began less than a month before his first major label album was released. While all that was happening, there was also a reshuffling of the Atlanta rap scene's major players. Trap music has been carried by the bass-heavy sound of producers like Lex Luger, Mike Will, Zaytoven and Drumma Boy, nudged forward by national media attention and commercialized by pop's big business of the past couple years, EDM.

The style of music he makes has been moving toward the mainstream as well. He made some slight tweaks to become more mainstream friendly - a slowed cadence, a bit of content cleaning - but preserved his unmistakable Southern twang. He's changed very little, stylistically, between then and now. I felt like this Lil Wayne's time,' he says. 'It was moving so fast but deep down inside in my heart, I felt like it wasn't my time. In an episode of MTV's This Is How I Made It, 2 Chainz recalls the rush. His verse on ' Duffle Bag Boy,' which featured a then-on-fire Lil Wayne, made it look like his group, Playaz Circle, was about to begin its ascent, but nothing further came from the outfit. Not every song was groundbreaking or praiseworthy, but certainly, just as Ringo did over the course of his career, in 2012, 2 Chainz reminded us that we don't always want to be so serious.ДЇive years ago, performing under the name Tity Boi, 2 Chainz had already hit the Billboard 100. Despite varied opinions on whether the Atlanta-based musician is a technically proficient rapper or not, he certainly had a productive year, appearing on nearly 100 tracks. Across time and genre, it's always been easy to write off the 2 Chainzes and Ringos of the world when the Kanyes and Kendricks and Pauls and Johns stand right next to them. He's known more for his friendly smile and carefree attitude than he is for his chops. Ringo, with his innate ability to combine personality and art, was integral to one of the most creative and influential bands of the last 50 years, though some wouldn't recognize it until years after. The success of both artists, one in a '60s rock 'n' roll era and the other in a 21st century rap era, is a testament to people who consume pop music, which is all of us. But once he's there he laces his bouncy, terse rhymes with a humility and charisma that reminds one of another musician - a British drummer a foot shorter: Ringo Starr. Born Tauheed Epps, he has a presence before he ever hops on any microphone. He wears dreads down his back and designer threads.

The rapper 2 Chainz stands six feet, five inches tall. 2 Chainz performing in London in November.ДЄdvisory: The videos on this page contain profanity and explicit imagery.

New 2 chainz mixtape august 2012