Chinx
| Chinx | |
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| Birth name | Lionel Pickens |
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| Born |
December 4, 1983 Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, United States |
| Died | May 17, 2015 (aged 31) Queens, New York, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2000–2015 |
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Lionel Pickens (December 4, 1983 – May 17, 2015), better known by his stage name Chinx (formerly Chinx Drugz), was an American hip hop recording artist from Queens, New York. He was a member of the Rockaway Riot Squad alongside fellow slain rapper Stack Bundles. Chinx later joined French Montana's Coke Boys Records. He was best known for his appearances on the Coke Boys mixtapes and the Cocaine Riot mixtape series. He was killed by an unknown assailant through a fatal gunshot wound after a drive-by shooting in Jamaica, Queens, on May 17, 2015.
Chinx was born and raised in Far Rockaway, living in both Redfern Houses and Edgemere Houses, now known as Ocean Bay Apartments. When speaking of how he started rapping Chinx Drugz said, "I started rapping at the table in junior high school for fun with the homies and then by 9th grade is when I started taking music seriously. At that point is when I started investing my street money into my studio time and trying to find my sound." He said he got the name "Chinx Drugz", "since I used to smoke a lot of weed back in the day, and this older chick used to call me chinkey and it stuck, the drugz well that’s self explanatory, I been slangin on these corners." He first started rapping with his close friend Stack Bundles while he was in high school, who he would later form the group Riot Squad with, along with local rappers Bynoe and Cau2Gs. However, he would be incarcerated shortly after, from 2005-2008 at Arthur Kill Correctional Facility.
Stack Bundles along with rapper Max B joined Jim Jones' group Byrd Gang. He then met fellow New York rapper French Montana through Max B in 2009, who he would form the hip hop group, Coke Boys with. On April 13, 2009, Drugz released his first solo mixtape, Hurry Up & Die Vol. 1: Get Ya Casket On.
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