B.G. (rapper)

Christopher Noel Dorsey (born September 3, 1980), better known by his stage name B.G. (short for Baby Gangsta), is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dorsey was born on September 3, 1980, at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He began his musical career in 1993 upon signing with Birdman's Cash Money Records at the age of 12.

While attending middle school, he started rapping and eventually met with Bryan "Birdman" Williams (a.k.a. Baby) in a barbershop in 1993.

Birdman and his brother "Slim" took Dorsey in, allowing him to stay with them.

They later signed him to Cash Money Records.

At 15, he dropped out of high school and began using heroin, but remained focused on his recording career.

At age fourteen, B.G. (then known as Lil Doogie) began working with another New Orleans pre-teenager named Baby D (later known as Lil Wayne).

The two were both signed to Cash Money Records, and they came together as a duo named The B.G.'z.

The duo released one album under Cash Money, True Story, in 1995.

As a solo act, Dorsey has released five solo albums for Cash Money—Chopper City (1996), It's All on U, Vol. 1 (1997), It's All on U, Vol. 2 (1997), the platinum-certified Chopper City in the Ghetto (1999) and Checkmate (2000).

He released the album Chopper City in 1996 and the albums It's All on U, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in 1997.

He was also part of the group Hot Boys with other local rappers Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Turk, and Baby's nephew Derrick a.k.a. Bulletproof (who eventually left the group).

Dorsey and label-mates Lil Wayne, Juvenile and Turk collectively formed the group Hot Boys in 1997, with whom he has released three commercially successful albums.

By 1997, The B.G.z disbanded with both members eventually joining The Hot Boys.

The group's debut album, Get It How U Live!, was released in October 1997.

In 1998, Cash Money Records signed a deal with Universal Records, which released Chopper City in the Ghetto in April 1999.

The album included the hit song "Bling Bling", which further popularized the hip-hop slang term "bling bling" describing shiny, expensive jewelry, automobiles, or other forms of opulence.

True Story was re-released in 1999 as a solo B.G. album.

The Hot Boys' second album, Guerrilla Warfare, was released in July 1999 and reached No.5 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Checkmate (2000) was B.G.'s last album with Cash Money Records.

He parted ways with the label in 2001 and to form Chopper City Records that same year.

In 2001, when B.G. left Cash Money Records, he claimed to have left the label over a financial dispute with owners Birdman and Ronald "Slim" Williams, which caused controversy at the time.

He released his sixth studio album Livin' Legend on his own label, Chopper City Records.

The Oxford English Dictionary added "bling bling" in 2003.

He released Life After Cash Money in 2004, The Heart of tha Streetz, Vol. 1 in 2005, and The Heart of tha Streetz, Vol. 2 (I Am What I Am), which reached #6 on the Billboard 200, in 2006.

With the Chopper City Boyz, he recorded We Got This in 2007 and Life in the Concrete Jungle in 2008.

In 2009, the Hot Boys agreed to a reunion.

This plan was later scrapped, though B.G. and Juvenile did appear briefly on stage at a Lil Wayne concert that June.

B.G. released his tenth studio album, Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood, in December 2009 after many delays.

It included the hit single "My Hood" which featured longtime friend Mannie Fresh.

"My Hood" reached #70 on the U.S. R&B Charts.

In June 2010, B.G. released a collaborative mixtape with Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie titled "22504 (225504)", which is the combined area codes of their respective hometowns.

A month later, B.G. released a solo mixtape titled Money Side, Murda Side where he introduces his newfound group, Chopper City Gorilla Gang (or simply CCGG).

He released his street album titled HollyHood on October 5, 2010.

Dorsey was incarcerated from 2012 to 2023, and promptly continued recording following his release.

He grew up in the Freret neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, which is located in the 13th Ward.

The Dorsey family lived in a shotgun house on the corner of Valence and Magnolia Street.

When he was 12, his father, Christopher Jasmin, was killed during an attempted robbery.

He then began selling crack cocaine and hanging out on street corners with drug dealers.