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South Side-native Montana has been working at his craft for 10 years, six years before the breakthrough of “drill”’s hard-nosed, trap music-influenced sound. In many ways, what he does owes a lot to the music which came before Chief Keef and the artists who broke the door in for the Chicago scene at that time, though he capitalized off drill’s success. Montana has earned up to tens of thousands of views on freestyles over other people’s songs, which recalls the free-mixtape methodology of last decade, when Lil Wayne and DJ Drama defined the format. A January “White Iverson/Milly Rock” remix boasts 7 million, one of many that is creeping up to the record set by his 2014 take on Dej Loaf’s “Try Me,” which hangs at 17 million+. Trap Queen” and “Coco” takes are at 9; a “Panda” take has garnered over 2 million hits in 2 weeks.