CJ

Staten Island native CJ made his commercial breakthrough in 2020 with the drill track "Whoopty," a Top 40 pop hit. Christopher Daniel Soriano started rapping in his teens and was uploading music under his stage name before he turned 20. He gained some attention in 2018 with "Pop," featuring 6ix9ine, and made another advancement in 2019 with the more melodic "Understood." "Whoopty," inspired by Brooklyn drill -- more specifically that scene's Pop Smoke -- followed in 2020. Originally released independently, it was picked up by major-label Warner Bros. and reached the Billboard...