Chel Strong Los Angeles CA Just as General Motors is charting its rebirth from the gloom and desperation of the Great Recession, so too is Detroit native Chel — a mercurial rapper, whose red hot rhymes and stone cold beats have transported the MC from his Motor City-birthplace to his new home in the City of Angels. The Los Angeles transplant and son of celebrated Motown songwriter Barrett Strong ("Heard It Through The Grapevine," "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"), Chel has music in his genes and a don't-quit-can't-quit attitude fueling the incessant rhythm of his piston heart. Just take a listen to any of the 14 breathless and driving tracks on his full-length debut, Pit Bulls and Black People.