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ISSUE 51  ·  AUG 3 2026  ·  MUSIC · CHICAGO RAP

Ghetto Love Story — BabyChiefDoit

Ghetto Love Story — BabyChiefDoit
A Chicago teenager who produces most of his own beats dropped a Miami bass record into the middle of a drill album, and it stuck: 11 million Spotify streams in seven weeks, three verses of neighborhood soap opera that keep piling on plot twists. Rise Against My Broken Odds, out June 12 on APG, is album three. The room heard this one correctly.
7.4SCORE FLAME ROOM'S RIGHT HEAT 72

ROOM'S RIGHT — the room is loud, and the room is correct.

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