Present & Show: Chuckyy
Phrases: C. Vernon Coleman II
Chuckyy has a voice that instructions consideration. So, it nearly looks as if destiny that after rapping for less than a couple of yr, the 19-year-old Chicago native was being courted by the self-proclaimed “The Voice,” Lil Durk, and Alamo Information, the label Durkio is signed to. To make issues much more serendipitous, Chuckyy inked a take care of Alamo sister label Santa Anna Information within the first quarter of 2024, however he stays intently affiliated with Durkio’s Solely The Household imprint. A bond that solidified the evening that Durk received his first Grammy Award that yr.
“He might have did something [that night] for actual, however he pulled up on us,” Chuckyy says of his first assembly with Durk. “That was the beginning of the journey.”
The established rapper’s hunch about Chuckyy appears to be spot on. Prior to now three years, Chuckyy has rapidly risen as one of many Windy Metropolis’s newest drill rap wunderkinds, raking in thousands and thousands of streams with tracks like “My World,” “We Obtained Buttons,” “Free Smurk OFNG” and others. He is additionally garnered a cult following together with his horrorcore aesthetic and prolific output.
Earlier than the celebrity and A-list cosigns, Chuckyy’s journey started within the rough-and-tumble Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Facet of Chicago. Born Charles Edwards, Chuckyy attended Thornridge Excessive College earlier than dropping out round tenth grade.
“It was like too many fights was piling up,” Chuckyy remembers in regards to the finish of his scholastic profession. “After which they tried to throw some bullsh*t on my identify and say I used to be like a gang chief. That is after I began rapping.”
Impressed by the likes of Lucki and Chicago drill rap godfathers Chief Keef and Lil Durk, Chuckyy made use of his uniquely guttural baritone and commenced recording raps on his cellphone in early 2023. He launched his first track, “What They Gone Do,” by mistake.
“I purchased an app that I believed I might identical to wire it up on Instagram, but it surely really dropped on all platforms,” Chuckyy shares. “It was doing numbers. It had like a half 1,000,000 [streams] after I checked in like two months.”
Following the favorable snafu, the then-neophyte rhymer began releasing music independently on DSPs all through the remainder of the yr, together with singles like “Bail Out!” “Drench,” “Omerta” and the five-song EP BackfromdaDead.
By early 2024, Chuckyy’s music was choosing up movement in Chicago’s rap scene. By means of mutual ties with Durk, Chuckyy landed a gathering with Solely The Household artist Chief Wuk, who advised the upstart rapper that OTF was seeking to signal new expertise and Chuckyy was on their radar. Following Durk and Chuckyy’s Grammy evening hangout a short while later, Chuckyy would signal a report take care of Santa Anna. Regardless of not signing with Durk, Chuckyy nonetheless waves the flag for OTF. “It’s like one hand wash the opposite, kind sh*t,” Chuckyy maintains.
With a report contract in hand and a cosign from one among hip-hop’s greatest stars, Chuckyy wasted no time cranking out new materials. He launched the challenge Tweak Til the Finish in August of 2024, and adopted it up two months later with Bloodbathh Vol. 1.
“I nonetheless have not paid for studio time to at the present time,” Chuckyy explains, shedding mild on his recording course of. He prefers the consolation of recording tracks at house.
Final August, the rising rhymer launched his full-length debut album, I Stay, I Die, I Stay Once more. The challenge options visitor appearances from Lucki, Rob49 and Veeze and comprises the well-received Bugg-produced single “My World.” After initially going viral on TikTok, Chuckyy earned his first entry on the Billboard Sizzling 100 with the track when it debuted at No. 79 on the chart final Could. The observe, which samples Canadian singer Ekkstacy’s “I Stroll This Earth All by Myself,” has over 34 million streams on Spotify and over 26 million YouTube views for its accompanying music video.
Bloodbathh Vol. 2: Violate We Reveal dropped on Halloween 2025, and was accompanied by a brief slasher-themed movie of the identical identify that featured Chuckyy as a revenge-hungry rapper who takes out his detractors. He delivered the music video for the Observe “F Talkin” shortly after the challenge arrived.
Chuckyy’s A&R, Jacob Gilliland, cites the effervescent rapper’s work ethic and “reinvention” as a few of the traits that separate him from the pack. “[Chuckyy gives] the followers a constant move of music, with out oversaturating,” Gilliland conveys. “He has a really distinct perspective and pays consideration to each element. No one in a very long time has come out of Chicago with the extent of versatility that he has proven within the final two years. He’s a 19-year-old artist whose followers already acknowledge completely different ‘eras’ of his profession.”
Within the midst of Chuckyy’s rise, Lil Durk was arrested in October of 2024, for an alleged murder-for-hire plot. He has pleaded not responsible and, as of press time, is awaiting his trial in April. In Durk’s absence, Chuckyy has been drawing from earlier jewels from Smurk.
“Lots of this sh*t that he stated some time in the past nonetheless assist me now,” Chuckyy says. “He the explanation that I most likely ain’t broke proper now. He was the one which was in my ear telling me…’Do not buy that. Do not do that.’ Or if I do purchase it, he’ll come reimburse me. He ain’t even bought to do no sh*t like that. We each grown. So, I f**okay with bro. Free bro. That sh*t gonna work out.”
Regardless of his mentor’s authorized points, Chuckyy’s profession is shifting full steam forward. With 4 initiatives launched in two years, he plans to maintain followers flooded with extra content material. Final Christmas Day, he delivered the challenge (//ChuckyyLostFiles//). Earlier this month, he unleashed one other new video for “Kobe,” a observe on Bloodbathh Vol. 2: Violate We Reveal. The momentum continues.
His massive plans for this yr embody extra music, options—particularly a collab with Lil Uzi Vert—and a tour. Other than rap, Chuckyy can be prepping a clothes line impressed by his uncle, set to reach within the coming months. With 2026 shaping as much as be one other busy 365, he could also be quick on time, however he’s undoubtedly not slight on hubris.
“I do not even need no flowers out this sh*t,” he expresses. “Lots of people bought their rap offers off my sound. I am on y’all a*s. Y’all bought to interrupt me off. No cap.”
No extra little one’s play.
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