B.G.

As one of the multi-platinum Cash Money Millionaires, B.G. has achieved an extraordinary amount of success since his label first stepped into the national spotlight. In less than five years, B.G. has gone from being a local underground sensation to blinding the world with his infectious mega-hit “Bling, Bling”.

Long before the glitz and glamour, before the iced-out pendants and fancy cars dominated hip-hop, B.G. was kicking gritty tales based on his observations of life on the mean and cruel streets of the Uptown section in New Orleans. The twenty-year old B.G. (Christopher Dorsey) has been rapping since the tender age of 12, when he dropped his semi-autobiographical underground EP titled True Story in 1992.

Over the next four years, B.G. released Chopper City (1996), It’s All On You Volumes I (1997) and II (1998) on the Cash Money imprint. Collectively these titles sold over 500,000 units throughout the South solely by word-of-mouth. These albums established B.G. as one of the most prolific and respected voices of Southern hip-hop- in fact, Chopper City is still considered a Southern classic. In 1999, Cash Money/Universal Records jointly released B.G.’s platinum-certified fifth album, Chopper City In The Ghetto which yielded the #1 hit song “Bling, Bling”.

As a member of the Hot Boys, an all-star, award-winning group consisting of Cash Money label-mates Juvenile, Lil Wayne and Turk, he released Get It How You Live (1997) and Guerrilla Warfare (1999). The latter contained the smash hit, “I Need A Hot Girl” which led to the Hot Boys the 2000 Source Award for “Group Of The Year”.

Check Mate finds B.G. returning to his underground roots of dropping straight-up hardcore reality rap over Cash Money producer Mannie Fresh’s sizzling hot tracks. One listen to songs such as “Running With My Chopper” and “Slinger” will instantly transform fans back to the dark days of 1992 when New Orleans was engulfed in such a violent crime wave that the city made the FBI’s Top Ten list for homicides. But Check Mate isn’t all about the negative side of street life. Like all good commentators,B.G. tempers his cold hard observations of ghetto life with positive songs like, “Change The World” and “To My People”, that speak of hope and redemption for his community.
Elaborating on the album title, B.G. offers, “Life is like a game of chess. Every move you make has a consequence. If you make the right moves, you’ll make it, but if you make the wrong moves, you get a ‘check-mate’ and you could lose.”

B.G., along with the rest of the Cash Money Millionaires will headline a national tour kicking off in Miami on November 10th.