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  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rap
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Here to Save You All," "Something Sacred," "Poison Pen"

Biography

Hailing from East Orange, NJ, Chino released his debut album, Here to Save You All, in 1996 and has since had plenty of now famous appearances on DJ Sway and Tech's morning radio show called "The Wakeup Show." He's been called the king of metaphors and for good reason, everyone that likes their rhymes laden with punch lines should definitely check him out. ~ Brad Mills, All Music Guide
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Chino XL
Birth name Derek Keith Barbosa
Genres Rap
Years active 1991–present
Labels American Recordings/Warner Bros.
Metro Records
Activate Records
Bungalo Records
Machete Music/Universal Records[1]

Derek Keith Barbosa, known as Chino XL, is an American Hip Hop lyricist, battle rapper, and actor. The nephew of Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic, Chino is known for his technically accomplished style, consisting of self-consciously over-the-top punchlines, exaggerated egotism, and use of multiple similes, puns, metaphors, and wordplay. He is a member of the intellectual collective MENSA and has collaborated on various projects with some of the most well known artists in Hip Hop.[2]

Aside from music, Chino, under the management of Hollywood talent manager Stacey Castro (who is also Executive Producer of his long awaited 2006 release "Poison Pen"), also forged a career in acting, appearing in several films and making guest appearances on the Comedy Central series Reno 911! and the CBS series CSI: Miami[3]. He has starred in films alongside Kate Hudson, Luke Wilson, and Rob Reiner and had a solo project debut at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival.[4]

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Career

After co-founding the duo Art of Origin, the half-African American, half-Puerto Rican emcee was signed at age 16 by music impresario Rick Rubin to Rubin's American Records imprint, which was once part of the Warner Bros. Records family[5]. He released his debut album Here to Save You All in 1996. The debut was released to critical acclaim and major airplay by radio and MTV.

Following Prince's departure from Warner, Chino was released by the label as well, and he released his sophomore album I Told You So in 2001, and his third album Poison Pen in 2006.[6]

In 2007, Chino signed a contract with urban Latin record label and Universal imprint Machete Music[7].

In 2009 during a controversial interview with Allhiphop.com writer Han O'Connor, Chino revealed that his fifth studio album The RICANstruction is to be released in Spring 2010. The album will be released via his own joint ventire CPR/Universal and will feature the likes of Immortal Technique, Tech N9ne, Ras Kass, Crooked I and Bun B. The RICANstruction will also feature an unreleased collaboration with D12's Proof and a song with Big Pun. The album will be executive produced by Focus... and also feature production from DJ Khalil.[8]

Discography

Albums

Album information
Here to Save You All
  • Released: April 9, 1996
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #56
  • Singles: "No Complex"/"Waiting to Exhale", "Thousands"/"Freestyle Rhymes", "Kreep", "Rise", "Deliver"
I Told You So
  • Released: November 13, 2001
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #98
  • Singles: "Last Laugh", "Let 'Em Live", "What You Got"
Poison Pen
  • Released: March 21, 2006
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: -
  • Singles:
Something Sacred
  • Released: January 15, 2008
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position:
  • Singles: "Chow Down"
The RICANstruction
  • Release Date: 2010[9]
  • Single: "90 Bars of Intervention", "Nahh!"

References

  1. ^ Chino XL Interview - "Return of the Poison Pen"
  2. ^ rapindustry.com, Chino XL Interview, with Sway and King Tech, accessed, September 14, 2008
  3. ^ Chino XL Interview - "Return of the Poison Pen"
  4. ^ imdb.com, Chino XL - Biography, accessed, September 14, 2008.
  5. ^ Chino XL Interview - "Return of the Poison Pen"
  6. ^ Chino XL Interview - "Return of the Poison Pen"
  7. ^ Chino XL Signs New Record Deal
  8. ^ http://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2009/09/11/21933265.aspx Chino XL 'I'd S**t on Shakespeare!' by Han O'Connor (Allhiphop)
  9. ^ http://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2009/09/11/21933265.aspx Chino XL: 'I'd S**t on Shakespeare' by Han O'Connor (Allhiphop)

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