Money, Pride, and Lies: The Rise And Fall Of Chingy

Howard Bailey, Jr. (born March 9, 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri), higher recognized by his stage identify Chingy, is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur. Following within the footsteps of his heroes Ice Dice and Run-DMC, he started writing lyrics at age 9 and was recording at ten. He initially thought of the stage identify H.Thugzy earlier than deciding on Chingy, a slang time period for cash. With the discharge of the observe “Right Thurr” Chingy turned an in a single day sensation, with the observe peaking at quantity 4 on the Billboard 100. His extremely anticipated debut album Jackpot was launched in 2003, and it was acquired properly by critics and followers alike. Inside a yr of its launch, Jackpot was licensed RIAA 3x Platinum. Chingy launched his second album, Powerballin’, on November 16, 2004, and his third album Hoodstar was launched on September 19, 2006. Hate It or Love It’s the fourth studio album by Chingy, launched in 2007. His latest album, Success And Failure, will likely be launched someday in 2009.

His hits date again to 2003 and embody: “Right Thurr,” “Holidae In,” “One Call Away” that includes J-Weav, “Balla Baby” and extra just lately, “Pullin’ Me Back” that includes Tyrese and “Dem Jeans featuring Jermaine Dupri.” He has additionally taken half within the “Get Low (Remix)” music video. Chingy goes by the brand “G.I.B.”, which stands for Git It Boyz. He was on the street from August 06-January 07 and is now in his hometown St. Louis serving to his youthful cousin Younger Spiffy create his debut album Troublemaka. Spiffy would be the first off his label Slot-A-Lot.

St. Louis based mostly Fo-Reel Leisure residence of artists equivalent to Nelly declare to have found the proficient Chingy, and he was usually seen throughout his early days with their entourage. Nonetheless as time handed Chingy started to distance himself, throughout which period a feud emerged between Nelly and Chingy. Shortly after, he emerged as soon as once more as a member of Ludacris’ southern hip hop report label DTP. His relationship with DTP was massively profitable and result in a profitable debut consisting of the lead single “Right Thurr”, “Holidae In”, and “One Call Away”. However later in 2005, Chingy had a financial dispute with DTP, inflicting him to go away the label. He launched Powerballin’ the identical yr, yielding the singles “Balla Baby” and “Don’t Worry”. His debut single solely made success into the Billboard high 20. In 2006, he squashed his beef with Nelly and appeared in Ali & Gipp’s new video “Go Head”. He said in Rap Metropolis that he has no beef with Ludacris. He launched his third album Hoodstar, releasing “Pullin’ Me Back”, “Dem Jeans”, and “Nike Aurr’s and Crispy Tee’s”. He’s at present courting a lady referred to as Georgia Lowell who was a former prostitute and stripper in the UK, nonetheless he just lately introduced it to be rumours. Round March 2007, Chingy began showing in commercials for Occasion with a Star.com, with whom he has signed a contract to have a one hour meet and greet with the competition winner, together with different former celebrities and actuality stars Ant (comic), Cindy Margolis, Traci Bingham, Steve-O, and Vanilla Ice. Chingy has appeared on Goerge Lopez and The Jay Leno Present.