In the past few weeks, Staten Island rapper CJ’s breakout hit “Whoopty” has become a favored backdrop for rappers looking for a beat to help them get their bars off. Tierra Whack employed the ...

It seems like if you're a fan of hip-hop, it's only a matter of time before you try rapping, making beats or DJaying at some point or another. That's exactly what Staten Island, N.Y. rapper CJ did.

A couple of years ago, Brooklyn drill was a local YouTube phenomenon -- young people in a few different neighborhoods taking aesthetic cues from Chicago and the UK, airing out inter-neighborhood beefs ...

Staten Island's CJ scored a top 10 hit with his track "Whoopty," a song heavy on the drill-circa-Pop Smoke sound — the sample of Indian singer Arijit Singh's "Sanam Re" on the beat has to be one of ...