LUCKI’s flow throughout the song resembles that of rapper Roddy Ricch in a way that is more of a melodic flow. On “KAPITOL DENIM,” LUCKI seems to preach to listeners instead of speaking to them in a ...

Chicago rapper Lucki ‘s 2022 project Flawless Like Me reached number 12 on the Billboard 200, while his new highly anticipated album S*ex M*ney Dr*gs, released last week, earned him his highest ...

Two new albums from artists floating around in that sphere, Don Toliver and LUCKI, exist along a spectrum preoccupied more with rap as texture than as text. They are operating toward different ...

Lucki is shameless about his pain. Whether the 22-year-old Chicagoan—born Lucki Camel Jr.—is rapping about his bouts with depression and anxiety, his role in sabotaging his romantic ...

Lucki’s ascension from the underground to swag rap superstar has been gradually evolving for years. His latest project, GEMINI!, boasted features from talented emcees like Lil Yachty, Veeze ...

Fittingly, one of Lucki’s chief beatmakers, and the sole producer of his new album WAKE UP LUCKI, is F1LTHY, founder of Philadelphia production collective Working on Dying and the sonic ...

Lucki raps in a sort of cracked mutter, talking about his own failures and heartbreaks and addictions over dazed, druggy minimal beats. He doesn’t often work with other rappers, or with ...

LUCKI is back with another hot take. On Thursday (July 4), the Chicago artist partly blamed Lil Wayne and JAY-Z for the younger rap generation’s inability to distinguish between freestyling and ...

Lucki hasn't had a traditional career arc. In 2016, he dropped Freewave 2 and then, struggling with addiction and mental health, he took a break from music for eight months.

It might seem bizarre to call Lucki the best conscious rapper in Chicago, given that the city is also represented nationally by the likes of Chance the Rapper, Saba, and Common. But hear me out.

Lucki is tired of talking about Lucki. He’s tired of reflecting on the very intimate moments of his young adulthood, tired of rehashing a public coming-of-age story in which a teenage rapper ...