# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chinx
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:16:09.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chinx"
name: "Chinx"
slug: "chinx"
description: "Lionel Du Fon Pickens, professionally known as Chinx, was an American rapper. He was a member of The Rockaway Riot Squad alongside fellow slain rapper Stack Bundles. Chinx later joined French Montana's Coke Boys Records, gaining recognition for his appearances on the Coke Boys mixtapes and the Cocaine Riot mixtape series. He was killed in a drive-by shooting in Jamaica, Queens on May 17, 2015. Two men have since been arrested in the case."
tagline: "American rapper from Queens, New York"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Chinx_Studio.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1983-12-03"
deathDate: "2015-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.704693333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Chinxmusic"
    handle:    "Chinxmusic"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DctCFD8X80VeY7WLC86PS"
    handle:    "2DctCFD8X80VeY7WLC86PS"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chinxmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1623786"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "شينكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx_Drugz"
    title: "Chinx Drugz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinx"
    title: "Chinx"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4fabb4a9-18c1-45ca-98cd-e2511b0d8edd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16208104"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump