Over the years, Chi City has gathered skill as a songwriter, taking his influences like Jay-Z, Kanye West, Do or Die and Ludacris, and using them to shape his own style. Today his penmanship has also secured him ghostwriting gigs with several of today’s top artist. Not many independent artists have performed in 20 cities in less than one year, including the most respected music festivals in the industry – SXSW and A3C Hip-Hop Festival. Fresh off of the California Sweetheart tour with Lil’ Debbie, Chi-City has garnered the attention of many different audiences, especially New York City. The success of this tour throughout the late summer, has awarded Chi-City with another opportunity to tour 19 cities with Lil’ Debbie throughout the winter.
Chi City’s skillful delivery and performance has led to many invites to perform at various showcases across the nation. In 2007, Chi City was chosen as one of 80 artist to perform at Slip N Slide Convention held with Block Ent. and other labels as well as asked to represent Slip N Slide as one of their On The Grind artist. In 2009 was also chosen to perform at B.E.T. Artist Showcase held in Columbus, Ohio which landed Chi City a chance to join a 10 city tour with Philadelphia Freeway as the start of a onslaught of performances throughout the summer of ’09. In 2011, he performed at Thisis50.com’s Independent Fridays. Due to his ever-building buzz in the Midwest, Chi City was asked to perform at the Chi-City Record Pool in Chicago, IL and the Going H.A.M. Midwest Showcase in Goshen, IN.
The lyrical master has built a massive following not only in Chicago, but all over the Midwest reaching all the way to St. Louis. With prominent regional success, Chi City has also gained fans in New York, Miami, Texas, Cali, and Baltimore and even abroad due to projects with overseas artist and DJs including Zambia’s Crisis and DJ Q-Jay of Belgrade Serbia. A well respected player in the underground ranks, he has also linked up with some of the hottest artist on the independent circuit, teaming up with Cory Gunz, the son of New York rapper Peter Gunz, Grand Finale an independent artist based out of New Jersey, and Zac Fresh and Corey Jarell both of Ohio to produce blazing hot tracks.
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