Chandler Matkind, who plays Hooch and Hive in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 16, 2024. Credit: Screenshot via chandlermatkins/TikTok
Those choir kids are versatile. Just look at Chandler Matkins, who’s launched the Richmond rap scene into virality, all thanks to a few bars from his track, “Nothin’ To It.”
In the TikTok clip, the red-bearded emcee says, “Don’t ask me how I did it. I just did it—it was hard.”
Matkins’ delivery is laconic, with just a little drawl that’ll appeal to fans of Yung Gravy and even Blackalicious—and Maine rapper Ryan Peters (aka Spose) is on the bill, too.
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...
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