The Fader

Chelly The MC rules, and here’s the proof

The FADER's weekly column What Rules highlights our office's new obsessions. Name: Chelly The MC Style: Passionate raps over hard-hitting production about nobody being on her level, the type of guy ...
The Fader

The timely metamorphosis of Chelly the MC

Chelly The MC is a DMV rapper, but the 22-year-old prefers to specifically rep her actual hometown of Northeast Washington D.C. Her earliest Youtube music video, filmed in 2013, is for a track called ...
AllHipHop

Toga Doin’ Work Ft. Chelly The MC- “Pure” Video

To be or not to be is the question that Toga Doin’ Work asks with his latest release, “Pure,” which is accompanied by a new music video. Following his previous ...
Washington City Paper

The Scene Report: What’s New In the Local Hip-Hop World

The title of Chelly’s recently released EP Halfway There is obviously a reference to her rise from a Northeast D.C. girl, to a DMV star rapper, to her current moment on the verge of nationwide ...
Washington City Paper

The Scene Report: Tarica June, Mike D’Angelo, Chelly The MC, and More

Mike D’Angelo is an outlier. He’s a new school trap rapper with an old school sensibility. He proudly flexes his hip-hop knowledge naming Ice Cube, DJ Premier, and A Tribe Called Quest as his musical ...