Chicagoland hip-hop artist Oakland native had stayed in California, after run-ins with the law and gang banging, he survived and became the artist he is today. he’s not sure he’d be breathing, let alone recording music. “If it wasn’t for family and the people who love me, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing so comfortably,” Chainy said. “If I had stayed, I’d probably be in prison or Dead!" some of his earliest musical influences were ‘90s hip-hop legends Tupac Shakur and The Notorious BIG. “I was always trying to rap like them; to emulate their flow,” Chainy loves the soul-sampling production of Kanye West and said Dr. Dre’s west coast funk-indebted bombast is the all-time greatest production. “But my biggest inspiration has always been my mother,” YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ub-j0cKGU1X7qXdF1lvtQ