Chip Tha Ripper

There’s a nice dichotomy to Chip tha Ripper’s stage name - something innocent about the first part, and downright sinister about the latter - but, in truth, nothing about Charles Worth’s career in the rap game - which has spanned more than a decade to date - has really played off of that idea of light and shade; instead, for an artist who has always been on the mainstream side of the genre as far as the promotion and commercial success of his releases have been concerned, he’s actually often veered very close to what I’d classically consider to be alternative hip hop territory - consider, for example, the fact that his lyrics can go from being stark to downright funny in the blink of an eye, and that he’s worked hard to incorporate certain southern rap stylings - bearing in mind that particular scene was all the rage when his career began in 2002 - like the chopped and screwed remixing approach into his music. In more recent years, he’s probably been most notable for his hookups with his friend Kid Cudi, appearing prominently on his Man on the Moon: The End of Day LP as well as its sequel and A Kid Named Cudi, the mixtape that launched him into the big time.