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Life Is Beautiful

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Life Is Beautiful Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Larry June ,   2 Chainz   &   The Alchemist When Larry June and The Alchemist get together, the results are invariably magical. Two West Coast hip-hop mainstays, their 2023 joint album  The Great Escape  and a few surrounding one-offs clarified just how marvelously the Bay’s healthiest MC could vibe with LA’s infamous beat artisan. While that project’s featured guests were overwhelmingly comprised of ALC familiars, the duo’s 2025 follow-up welcomes a relative newcomer to that particular scene as its third headliner: 2 Chainz. Having established his reputation primarily with trap producers, the Georgia native reached a certain level of ubiquity by working beyond subgenre borders, which contextualizes his presence on  Life Is Beautiful . As his biggest fans assuredly know, he and June are in no way strangers, appearing together on the latter’s  Spaceships on the Blade  and  The Night Shift , albe...

The Genuine Articulate

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  The Genuine Articulate Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2024 The Alchemist