The B.O.A.T.S. II cookbook is filled with healthy recipes for such dishes as teriyaki salmon, garlic mashed potatoes, shrimp scampi — and something called “Me Time Sauce.” If the recipes aren’t especially noteworthy, the true genius of 2 Chainz comes out in his instructions.
For example, he suggests that you “put on your Versace apron” before preparing the teriyaki salmon. For his herb-crusted rack of lamb rib chops, he recommends: “Once finished, plate racks of lamb alongside a bottle of extravagantly priced Cabernet. 2 Chainz and fine wine. You want true? That’s true enough.” To fully enjoy his sautéed asparagus recipe, he advises chefs to drape themselves in “an Adidas sweatsuit, chainz n thangs.”
2 Chainz’s approach to creating culinary treats, it turns out, certainly differs from the techniques in Coolio’s cookbook. While the ’90s-era rapper hasn’t had a radio hit in well over a decade, he has made a splash with home chefs with recipes such as “Bro-Ghetti,” “Crybaby Chicken,” and “Chicken Lettuce Blunts” from his 2009 cookbook, Cooking with Coolio and the online cooking show of the same name.
Now the rapper is looking to make the transition to chef full time. To fund the career change, he is putting 123 songs, including his Grammy-winning single “Gangsta’s Paradise,” up for auction at the Royalty Exchange, according to The Guardian. Here’s hoping that the sale will be successful so the rapper can write a follow-up chapter to his “Salad-Eatin’ B–ches”.
