Payroll Giovanni & Cardo & E-40

Payroll Giovanni and Cardo were independently established prior to issuing the first in a series of collaborative mixtapes detailing street hustling with slick, trunk-rattling beats. The rapper, born Dior Giovanni Petty, came up in Doughboyz Cashout, major players in the late-2000s/early-2010s Detroit underground, and built up a solo discography with self-released mixtapes such as Get Money Stay Humble and Stack Season. Dallas, Texas (via St. Paul, Minnesota) beatmaker Ronald LaTour, aka Cardo Got Wings and simply Cardo, was concurrently credited on tracks by the likes of Mac ...