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April 29, 1999

TLC Back on Top of the Charts

TLC Back on Top of the Charts
April 28, 1999

TLC Back on Top

Sluggish week in record sales features TLC at No. 1, rapper B.G. in the Top Ten

Recordings and Reviews

We Got This

This posse record finds B.G. and some New Orleans homeys dropping action-packed rhymes backed by big beats that augment Dirty South bounce with good stuff like the minimalist, phone-tone-inflected jump of "It's Real." Befitting a (former) Cash Money boy like B.G., filler is a problem. But tr...

2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Life After Cash Money

2004

Livin' Legend

2003

Checkmate

2000

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Biography

The young prince of Cash Money, B.G., a.k.a. Baby Gangsta, was plucked out of the notorious Uptown ghetto of New Orleans by Cash Money founders Baby and Slim Williams when he was just eleven years old. Rather than play up the prodigy's youthful innocence, the Williams brothers capitalized on the somewhat disturbing thrill of hearing a hardly pubescent boy spitting grime-filled rhymes laced with vi...

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