Chad Hugo Shares First-Ever Solo Single “JUMPUPW!NYA” Feat. Tierra Whack & Leikeli47

For many years, Chad Hugo was one half of the Neptunes, the legendary Virginia Beach production duo who changed the sound of rap, R&B, and overall pop music in the '90s and '00s. It's hard to overstate the impact of the Neptunes, who made a dumbfounding number of classic hits and whose playfully spartan space-funk continues to reverberate today. Hugo was also a founding member of the Neptunes' N.E.R.D. side project. He was the quieter side of the Neptunes, the one who didn't sing hooks and appear in every video like Pharrell, but he was a crucial part of the whole — though the actual inter

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