Chinx’s grind to the top hasn’t been an easy one. Since serving a four-year sentence at Mid-State Correctional Facility, the Far Rockaway, Queens rapper has put all his focus and attention in pushing ...

Today would have marked the fortieth birthday of Lionel Pickens, known to the world as Chinx, a rising Queens star whose life and career were cut short far too soon. Even nine years after his passing, ...

Chinx Drugz, a rising rap star out of Queens, was shot and killed on this date in 2009. Chinx, who dropped “Drugz” from his name shortly before he was killed, was born Lionel Mickens, a Far Rockaway, ...