1. LGP QUA, freestyle rap on Instagram and TikTok. ‘Philly, Philly, Philly, that’s the place that I was born at,’ LGP QUA raps, pointing to broken streetlights above his head, ‘on the North side, where the lights was never on at.’
North Philly’s LGP QUA — the first three letters stand for ‘Let’s get paid’ — isn’t brand-new on the scene. Back in 2020, he had an eye-opening freestyle showcase with the influential DJ Funkmaster Flex on New York’s Hot 97.
Now, the rapper born Qidere Johnson is turning heads again with an attention-grabbing clip that led online commentators to compare him to a young Meek Mill and herald him as an up-and-coming master of streets-of-Philadelphia ‘pain rap.
