Each uses the core mechanic in a slightly different way. The game has four modes of play: Classic, Arcade, Puzzle and Strategy. Everyone from late rappers Shawty Lo and Bankroll Fresh to unsung heroes like Baby D and legends like the Dungeon Family get their love.Chainz 2: Relinked is the sequel to Chainz. As the EP’s longest song, it offers a brief history lesson of the city’s legendary and oft-understated rappers-a monument erected in honor of Atlanta, the names of his friends etched in the stones.
It’s genuinely touching without over-exaggerating the emotion or the subject matter. Over the pillowy vocals of Sitara Kanhai, he crafts an ode to his Georgia hometown. The EP’s anchor, “Lamborghini Truck (Atlanta Shit),” reveals a more sentimental side of the rapper whose lightheartedness has been a calling card for the better part of a decade. Only 2 Chainz can rhyme, “Yeah, I’m a misfit, dipshit, fish sticks, six whips/Times two, I’m cold, swine flu, must I remind you?” and make it work. “Land of the Freaks” surges with energy spilling out through lyrical dexterity and infinite swag. The trio celebrates mothers in a way that only they can, and the result is both tender and cautionary at the same time on some level, who doesn’t know that feeling of “I ain’t trying to let my mama down,” even if it is by any means necessary. “ Proud,” which features the EP’s only guest verses, courtesy of YG and Offset, arrives to give all the flexing a higher purpose than simple egoism. Rap flutes continue their contemporary reign on the trappy “Ok Bitch,” where his flow rides perfectly over an ominous piano loop, the syllables adding their own percussive element. There’s a sense of reflective appreciation throughout The Play, but his hallmark frivolity keeps the EP from becoming suffocating.
It lands well in the aftermath of last year’s phenomenal Pretty Girls Like Trap Music to display an artist who has fully stepped up and into his moment (again) without becoming too self-serious.
On his latest and most excellently titled EP, The Play Don’t Care Who Makes It, 2 Chainz basks in the fruits of the plays he’s made.
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