★★★★★
Where do you start when it comes to an artist like Chingy? He breezed on to the scene with a mammoth club banger, 'Right Thurr' and a multi-platinum selling album 'Jackpot'. Both were under the watchful eye of Ludacris until the St. Louis native decided he could roll out on his own. His second album 'Powerballin'' flopped by his standards, as did the single 'Balla Baby', and then from that moment on it all went Pete Tong...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Kid's got microphone control, no doubt about it, and he boasts a truly playful flow and command of rhyme, rhythm and syncopation - and punch lines, too - but as little as 20 minutes of this strident, bombastic-bap may very well lead to brain damage, murder or suicide. This is straight-up rhythm music...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Chingy has made a career of aw-shucks flirtation, but unlike most would-be Lotharios, his inner ruffian is far more fascinating. His third album begins promisingly ? "Hands Up" works a slow groove as Chingy gets comfortably incensed, and "Club Gettin' Crowded" is even better, like he's girding for a bar brawl. But just as he's adding texture, the bottom drops out for a numbing run of player anthems...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
"Right Thurr." If Chingy wasn't from St. Louis, haters across the country would say that his first hit single from "Jackpot" was biting Nelly's style. Since he can claim the Lou' as his home though, that's not so clurr. It may just be the way slanguage has evolved thurr, just to differentiate them more clearly from the East and the West coast. It's certainly worked for Nelly Nel, since the master of "Pimp Juice" easily sells multi-millions any time he drops an album...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
From loving fans to the most ardent of critics, all parties on both sides must concede that Chingy is now well established in the music industry. On his first single "Right Thurr" he was accused of overusing the St. Louis rap accent as a gimmick and on his first album "Jackpot" he was accused of riding on Nelly's coattails...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
If one is inclined to be ¢ute about this sort of thing, ¢hingy does like to spell his name on the ¢over of his album with the ¢ sign. As for this reviewer though just plain Chingy will suffice. Let's leave swapping letters for symbols to the original rappin' pimp from Oakland himself, Sir Too $hort...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Purists can hate all they want, but when Chingy churned out hits such as "Right Thurr," "Holidae Inn," and "One Call Away," all within a few month's time, it was hard to deny that St. Louis had spawned a bonafide superstar, and his name damn sure wasn't Nelly. More importantly, he had Disturbing The Peace in his corner instead of the glorified back-up dancers known as the St. Lunatics...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
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