2017 has been a landmark year for Tennessee native Starlito, who has slowly shed his tag as one of the more unsung spitters out of the south with a succession of well-received solo projects and collaborative offerings. Kicking off the year with his Manifest Dynasty mixtape, the artist formerly known as All $tar quickly showed he had no plans of letting up, unleashing his Attention Tithes & Taxes 2: Gentrified mixtape, as well as linking up with fellow Memphis connect Don Trip for two new installments in the pair's Step Brothers series.

Although prolific in nature, the first-half of Starlito's year also came with a bit of controversy, as the outspoken rapper shared his thoughts on rapper Post Malone and his song "White Iverson," comparing it to black-face and questioning Malone's intentions and credibility as a rapper. Starlito would go as far as releasing the song "Black Stockton," which would appear on Attention Tithes & Taxes 2: Gentrified, and express his sentiments in full, but has since moved onto more pressing matters, which is continuing to strike while the iron's hot.

Starlito accomplishes this feat with his latest project, Hot Chicken, his fifth release of the year thus far and one that finds him sharing the wealth with a few of his affiliates. While Starlito is centerpiece of Hot Chicken, costars like Red Dot, MobSquad Nard, TJ Da Hustla, Land Lord, Quanie, Mista Cain, Lil Vac, Jelly Roll, and others also drop verses and contribute to hooks, making the release more of a family affair.

XXL gave Hot Chicken a spin and picked out 20 of the best lyrics from Starlito's latest.

  • "Intro"

    Starlito

    "Just hit my line, you know I'm pulling up, you know I'm hood as fuck/Back to feed the streets just like a food truck, my tool tucked/Before BET Jams, man, it was news coverage/Dice, glock, or ddope in they veins, everybody shooting, thugging/Built another high-rise, now we gotta move, fuck it/Fastest growing city in America, but who's coming" - Starlito

  • "Baby Fever"

    Starlito

    "Nah but seriously, lately been feeling dated to say I'm an 80's baby/Kids born in 2000'll shoot you while someone tapes it/I promise you I'm not crazy/Put Quanny on all my tapes and still think Lebron underrated/Drove from Phoenix to Vegas with just three songs on my playlist/'Dear Mama' by ’Pac and JAY-Z's 'Momma Loves Me' and 'Mama I Made It'" - Starlito

  • "Family to Feed"

    Starlito featuring MobSquad Nard

    "Free my daddy/And shout out to my mama cause coming up, we ain't have it/Now I'm out on tour and sure enough, she look happy/My life is really real and my raps just the reenactment/She in a dream house, I put the lean down, Step Brothers 3 is out/Red Dot came home, I bought that Porshe as soon as he got out/Wish that I could free all of my people so all my niggas could see me now/My president is peach, hey pretty please, impeach this clown" - Starlito

  • "Trap Friday"

    Starlito featuring Red Dot

    "Strapped like a fucking car seat, he on them roxys/Addicted to prescription narcotics, since they shot him/He just want somebody to feel how he feel about it/Giving and really bout it, still willing to kill about it/Mix the mill for the profit, I'ma get me a couple thousand/Might just call up my old bitch, I been feeling nostalgic" - Starlito

  • "Hot Chicken"

    Starlito featuring TJ Da Hustla, Red Dot and Hambino

    "They say the way I be spitting, it sound like I'm riding round serving/I need my money by Wednesday because I'm flying out Thursday/I used to just want a house with an upstairs/Coming up we was so fucked up, we thought $1,000 a month was upscale/Out the mud yeah, hiding evidence from the drug sales/Hustling, no rich uncle like Fresh Prince or Duck Tales" - Starlito

  • "Draw Down"

    Starlito featuring SixStreet Lil Mac, MobSquad Nard and Mista Cain

    "I'm full-throttle for this shit, go harder for this shit/Jump up in that water with this here, we done robbed him for his shit/Nigga, push hard all through the bricks, and I be hard all on a bitch/A ’volver with the stick will blow the heart up out a bitch" - SixStreet Lil Mac

  • "Out of Time"

    Starlito featuring Trapperman Dale and TJ Da Hustla

    "Came home, ran a check up, bought me a rollie/My nigga jacked a nigga for a Breitling, this bitch ain't stolen/My lil nigga hit me up, gave that bitch straight to me ’cause he owe me/Dropped that shit off to my jeweler, told him hit me when it's loaded" - TJ Da Hustla

  • "TBG"

    Starlito featuring Red Dot, West and Marty

    "I'm going outta town, I hit the play like it's my last one/Got a whole load, so you know I had to stash some/Couldn't even bag some, loving how that cash come/Staying quick for three days and this bitch saying I'm handsome/Knowing what that bag will do, hustle game like black and blue/Strapped up like the fucking truth, pump nine when I war with you" - West

  • "Sicc of U Sundays"

    Starlito

    "A switch-up, you woke up on my dick, bitch, eat some breakfast/Ya hoe wanna play doctor ’cause she know I got my checkup/You way too fucking old to be talking bout you next up/You gon' be the reason them folks investigate your investor" - Starlito

  • "Make It Out the Ville"

    Starlito featuring Lil Vac and Quanie Cash

    "Dead broke, bitch, I'm with Quanie, too much cash involved/Tell that hoe I'm with Lito, yeah, I be among stars/I had no time for the broads, but I got women galore/Shit, they all a facade, I got more green than a yard/Fully-loaded my cars, shit, speaking of cars, I got one on my arm, shit and one on my charm" - Lil Vac

  • "Make It Out the Ville"

    Starlito featuring Lil Vac and Quanie Cash

    "Fought and shot it out over rap beef and I remain scarred/But first, I got a record deal before I had a bank card/Then I caught a gun charge, caught another gun charge/If I caught another one, I would've been gone, that taught a nigga to run for it/Balling, but I want more/Keep it too 100 and I just brought that in from on tour" - Starlito

  • "Produced by Fate Eastwood"

    Starlito

    "We was just hoping to survive with what they been smoking all they lives/Wish I never brought that first eightball from Los in the drive/Getting prescriptions from this crooked doctor, yeah, that's my guy/From local to coast to coast, now we dock the boats off Ocean Drive/Can't even lie, we rented it, money made, we spending it/Mayweather challenge, watch the fight, me and my niggas, we in that bitch/You niggas ain't eating, you see the menu, you finicky/I ain't got much to give, wouldn't even lend you my energy" - Starlito

  • "Produced by Fate Eastwood"

    Starlito

    "Wasn't part of my starting lineup, got left on the bench/These hoes evil, and I don't even believe the devil exists/Need to mind your fucking business, you lil meddling bitch/Fate, this shit right here so dope like it's from Medellin/Medellin, I came from settling to selling dreams/But my name been ringing since 17/I tell a queen, you just met a King/And I'll turn you to Coretta with this wedding ring" - Starlito

  • "6am in Vegas"

    Starlito Featuring Landlord

    "Lil mama downstairs fixing salmon croquettes/More money, more stress, it come with having a check/You one of them rappers they press, it come from lack of respect/If I'm on stage I'm on deck, they ain't pat me down yet/Yeah I copped one in the desert, said I'm too tall for a Vette/Saw one at the auction I could've bought, I'm so messy/I'm already stamped, so I thought I'd address it/I'm appalled, you let my balling upset you?" - Starlito

  • "6am in Vegas"

    Starlito Featuring Landlord

    "Glad I chose this over hooping at Fisk/Every Tuesday around 6 pull up the coupe to Ruth's Chris/Got a cougar to cook for me but I choose to forget/Come through in the clutch, Jermaine shoot but don't miss/And I promise I ain't slanging, yeah I'm truly legit/My momma's neighbors probably think I'm moving them bricks/I been stock trading, getting 2 for a pick/Getting 10 for a show, still got nothing for a bitch" - Starlito

  • "6am in Vegas"

    Starlito Featuring Landlord

    "Look, reaching for my chain'll get you paralyzed/You a trapper and a rapper, that's a pair of lies/I can look you in your eyes and tell you petrified/Left third, now I'm headed home and I ain't scared to slide/Baby say she love me, I told her love don't pay the bills/Even though that pussy wetter than the Navy SEALs" - Landlord

  • "Grow Up"

    Starlito featuring Landlord, Hambino and DeRobert

    "Never been hesitant, the first to ride/Certified, in the streets, ain't nothing worse than pride/It's a drought, that mean they work-deprived, 36 for 35/Now went to 30, call it a 39, a dirty kind/All they know is serve with iron there and grind/But I can't blame 'em I came up just like ’em/Fist-fighting, getting indicted, that's our mid-life crisis/Hustle all night and lose it shooting dice" - Starlito

  • "Grow Up"

    Starlito featuring Landlord, Hambino and DeRobert

    "It feel like I been struck by lightning/Just another day, another indictment/Them people coming through, even if they ain't invited/Man I need a soda, I'm feeling like a Viking/With this all-gold AP that this prostitute gave m/ I'll eat off the ground before I let a nigga play me/You will never hear a nigga say he made me/In the cut like a safety, with my gun off safety" - Landlord

  • "Too Many"

    Starlito

    "She fuck me like she love me call me like she need me/Lie like I believe her, but I know she deceitful/I know if I get locked up or if I fall off she gone leave me/My OG told me they'll ride the wave ’til it's high tide/Wait ’til the water runs dry then it's bye bye/By the way I wrote this out of state aye, what's the Wifi?/My phone ain't gettin' no service still waiting on reimbursement" - Starlito

  • "Outro"

    Starlito

    "All we do is argue, all we do is harbor/Our resentment like a farmer with his harvest and it's August/And this fall we facing famine... dammit/Get that so often, when I'ma take you off the market and make a family/Make an honest woman out you, but, honestly you lie too much/And I say that ’cause you lied to me once/I know that's fucked up, but it hurt me, I tried to hide it for months/Too much pride to step aside I realized I'm not the guy that you want" - Starlito

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