French Montana is bolstering his Coke Boys label with the addition of a buzzing new artist out of New York. On Sunday (December 6), Staten Island rapper CJ — best known for his “Whoopty” single — announced himself as the latest member of the imprint.
In an Instagram video, French says “welcome to the fam” while putting a gold chain with the Coke Boys logo around his neck, before coming together for a handshake.
CJ captioned the post, “WHOOPTY X HAANN @frenchmontana LETS BRING NY BACK.”
The rising 23-year-old released his breakout drill song “Whoopty” on July 30, which is currently peaking at No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart. The track has over 72 million plays on Spotify, with the music video also boasting almost 44 million views.
“Whoopty, bitch I’m outside it’s a movie,” CJ raps in the song. “Blue cheese, I swear I’m addicted to blue cheese/I gotta stick to this paper like loose leaf/Bitch I’m ’bout my chicken like it’s a two-piece/You can have your bitch back, she a groupie/She just swallowed all my kids in the two-seat.”
During an interview with XXL, CJ claimed he’s going to be the next “G.O.A.T.” and explained why he’s going to blow up.
“I try to keep it short and simple,” he said. “And pretty much just, I wanna make catchy music. [Have] people that’s gonna sing along. I don’t wanna be too complicated and be too serious in my songs. I want kids to recite my lyrics, older folks, too. Just kinda like a worldwide thing.”
He continued, “I wanna be one of the greats. I wanna leave a legacy and I just wanna make sure my next generation is set up good, and everybody around me is happy.”
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Thanks to the success of “Whoopty,” CJ ended the year with 65 million Spotify streams with a total of 8.2 million listeners and 592,700 hours of playback. As of December 7, it’s his only solo single on the platform.
“SORRY FOR THE DELAY…. MEN LIE , WOMEN LIE, YALL KNOW THE REST,” he told his 131,000 Instagram followers. “THANK U ALL FOR THE SUPPORT #2020artistwrapped.”
Definately a good Look, French needs more new blood in Coke Boys, Cj is playing heavy in Hot 97
The record is trash. Wtf happened to NY rap? Lyrics matter. He was also trash on the Busta Rhymes Czar remix. This ABC rap rhyming words with the same words is ridiculous. Rhyming blue cheese with blue cheese. Fam don’t Yes Man this bullshit
The five boroughs fell in love with drill, pop, and mumble rap, and has barely looked back since (shoutout to Beast Coast though). So NY(C) rap packed it up and moved upstate to Buffalo and Rochester.
NY never went anywhere and these clowns damn sure not bringing NYC back with this bullshit.! Shout out to Strothemc.!!!!
They definitely went somewhere…mainly down south to get money and stay relevant. Hopefully dude can “bring NY back”….
How he bringing NY back when that trash ass song sounds EXACTLY like Pop Smoke? NY never left, it just went underground. IYKYK
Bruh we already know dude is better than frenchie
Dude from the STAT so that’s all that needs to be said. Blue chee$e
This young man has bars son.
This stupidity must stop. Bring NY back with this? Trash Trash Trash ..Fuck out of here
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Guess really it all bout the marketing!!