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Chino XL is tagged as: hip-hop, rap, hip hop, underground hip-hop, underground rap

Chino XL (born Derek Barbosa, April 8, 1971, in The Bronx, New York but raised in East Orange, New Jersey) is a rapper well respected among hip hop enthusiasts for his battling abilities. He is notorious for his usage of self-consciously over-the-top punchlines (which usually take the form of puns or similes) and for his exaggerated egotism. He is also well known to many for a brief feud with Tupac Shakur.
After a spell with the group Art Of Origin, Chino XL released his debut album Here To Save You All in 1996, a diverse work which included more conventional battle rap tracks (featuring Kool Keith and Ras Kass) alongside autobiographical tracks such as What Am I (which dealt with his heritage- half Puerto Rican, half African - background). The album got a very positive critical reception and is still regarded by many as one of the finest hip-hop albums of the nineties.
After building his reputation further by making several famous appearances freestyling on the Wake Up Show radio show, Chino incurred the wrath of Tupac Shakur in Tupac’s track Hit ‘Em Up. This is believed to be as a result of a simile on his debut album in a track called Riiiot, which read “by this industry, I’m trying not to get fucked like 2Pac in jail”. The ambiguity over wh...
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Top 10 Chino XL Songs
Don't Say A Word
Nunca
What You Got
Heavenly Father
Watch Closer (Album Version (Explicit))
It's My World
That Would Be Me
Wake Up Show Anniversary (2000) Freestyle (Album Version (Explicit))
Make It Go
Trouble (Album Version (Explicit))
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I Told You So
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Poison Pen
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