![]() ![]() B.G, real name Noel Dorsey, as a 12 year old drug dealer, emerged from heroin addiction, his father’s murder, and multiple arrests to become a platinum rapper on a national tour by the age of 18 thanks to one word repeated twice: “Bling Bling.”Įveryone remembers “ Bling Bling,” right? The song, produced by Mannie Fresh, is generally accepted as the seminal record of 1999. ![]() ![]() Songs such as “Trigga Play,” “Made Man,” and “Uptown My Home” are the closest you can get to the infamous UPT projects without the creeping paranoia, drug sales, death, and sounds of gunfire that helped make New Orleans the murder capital of the world throughout the late 90’s. When rapper B.G dropped his major label debut, “Chopper City in Da Ghetto” in 1999, he introduced the world to a different side of New Orleans far beyond the syrupy hand grenades, powdered beignets, and general debauchery that defines the Big Easy’s culture for the droves of tourists swarming the French Quarter. B.G, “Hard Times” - Chopper City In Da Ghetto.“I done done it all from jacking and slanging, n -, trust that / Stealing cars, snorting dope, getting bust at / Never going to school, all kind of bulls - / Calling my momma in, I got her looking unfit,” “What’s In A Name? The Tanning of GCW Wrestling” ![]()
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