Chinx also removed the “Drugz” portion of his stage name for a cleaner image. The five-track project, released through Riot Squad, NuSense Music Group, and Coke Boys, increased his profile as it showed he could make catchy street records, like “Feelings,” for a larger audience. I think that was what attracted him, the fact that I was accessible and I understood the business.”īiggs came on as Chinx’s right hand when he was readying the release of his first retail EP, I’ll Take It From Here, in 2013. “I really like to get in the trenches and figure out who they are and what they need.
“I’m not the type of person that takes a bunch of artists,” Biggs says. So between his family, the wife, the kids, and this music, I’ve just been submerged in his presence and doing what he would want me to do to make sure the legacy stays strong and alive.” It kind of helped me through the grieving process because I had something to do every day. “I literally went from planning an album, to planning a funeral, and then got right back to finishing up this album. “For the past two months, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing,” says Doug “Biggs” Ellison, Chinx’s manager and executive producer of Welcome to JFK. It has been difficult for Lionel Pickens’ friends, family, and musical collaborators to recover from their loss, but they’ve finally grown comfortable enough to drop the project his fans wanted to hear. The team behind the 31-year-old rapper’s first posthumous album has been on an emotional rollercoaster ever since his murder on May 17 in Jamaica, Queens. While A$AP Rocky has confirmed he’s picking up where Yams left off and putting out his posthumous album, the more immediate release is Chinx’s debut, Welcome to JFK, out Aug. This year, hip-hop lost A$AP Yams, the Jacka, Chinx, Pumpkinhead, and Sean Price-all pivotal figures in their own right who likely left behind tons of unreleased music.
For fans who still blast 2Pac or Biggie wherever they go, it’s the music that allows them to resurrect the fallen legends and relive their glory days all over again. Once rappers pass, their mixtapes, albums, and leaked material allow listeners to keep their memories alive. Rappers’ legacies never really die if they leave the right things behind.
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