CJ

A highly energized immediacy typifies the output of Staten Island's CJ. The rapper made his commercial breakthrough in 2020 with "Whoopty," a brash, Brooklyn drill-inspired track that became a Top Ten pop hit the following February. The single anchored Loyalty Over Royalty (2021), CJ's debut EP, and led to featured appearances on tracks with the likes of El Alfa and Farruko. Subsequent collaborations with DJ Drama and SiAngie Twins, and headlining singles such as "Gangsta" (2023), have followed since then. Christopher Daniel Soriano started rapping in his teens and was uploa...