Chino XL has been played on NTS in shows including Ted Draws, featured first on 31 July 2018. Songs played include No Complex, Don't Say A Word and Freestyle Rhymes.

Chino XL (born Derek Barbosa, April 8, 1971, in The Bronx, New York but raised in East Orange, New Jersey) is a rapper well respected among hip hop enthusiasts for his battling abilities. He is notorious for his usage of self-consciously over-the-top punchlines (which usually take the form of puns or similes) and for his exaggerated egotism. He is also well known to many for a brief feud with Tupac Shakur.

After a spell with the…