CHINGY

'Howard Bailey Jr.' (born March 9, 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri) better known by his stage name 'Chingy', is an African-American hip-hop music artist.
Chingy is known for heightening his height and voice in all of his songs, however, in interviews and appearances, he uses a regular unstressed voice. His hits date back to 2003 and include: "Right Thurr," "Holidae In," "One Call Away" featuring J-Weav, "Balla Baby" and more recently, "Pullin' Me Back" featuring Tyrese, and "Dem Jeans" featuring Jermaine Dupri." He has also taken part in the "Get Low (Remix)" music video. Chingy goes by the logo "G.I.B.", which stands for Get it Boyz. He was on the road from August 06-January 07 and is now in his hometown St. Louis helping his younger cousin nick simmons aka spiffy Young Spiffy create his debut album, ''Troublemaka''. Spiffy will be the first off his label Slot-A-Lot.
Chingy has recently ceased his dispute with Disturbing tha Peace and has officially signed back to them^[1].

Contents

Career

Discography

Albums

Singles

Videos

Acting

References

External links

Career

St. Louis based Fo-Reel Entertainment home of artists such as Nelly claim to have discovered the talented 'Chingy', and he was often seen during his early days with their entourage. But lately Chingy and Nelly have seemed to "squash" their dispute. However as time passed Chingy began to distance himself, during which time a feud emerged between Nelly and Chingy. Shortly after, he emerged once again as a member of Ludacris' southern hip hop record label DTP. His relationship with DTP was hugely successful and lead to a successful debut consisting of the lead single "Right Thurr", "Holidae In", and "One Call Away". But later in 2005, Chingy had a monetary dispute with DTP, causing him to leave the label. He released ''Powerballin''' the same year, yielding the singles "Balla Baby" and "Don't Worry". His debut single only made success into the Billboard top 20. In 2006, he squashed his beef with Nelly and appeared in Ali & Gipp's new video "Go Head". He stated in Rap City that he has no beef with Ludacris. He released his third album, Hoodstar in 2006 under his own label, Slot-A-Lot Records and Capitol. The album had two popular singles; "Pullin' Me Back" and "Dem Jeans". In April 2007 Chingy signed back with DTP & left Capitol Records for Island Def Jam, and now is working on his 4th album "Hate It or Love it"

Discography

Albums

Album info
'''Jackpot''' ★ Release date: 15 July 2003 ★ RIAA certification: 3x Platinum ★ Chart Positions: U.S. #2 ★ Singles: "Right Thurr", "Right Thurr (Remix)", "Holidae In", "One Call Away"
'''Powerballin'''' ★ Release date: 16 November 2004 ★ RIAA certification: Platinum ★ Chart Positions: U.S. #10 ★ Singles: "Balla Baby", "Don't Worry"
'''Hoodstar''' ★ Release date: 19 September 2006 ★ RIAA certification: Gold ★ Chart Positions: U.S. #8 ★ U.S. Sales: 443.000[2] ★ W.W. Sales: 476.225[2] ★ Singles: "Pullin’ Me Back", "Dem Jeans"
'''Hate It or Love It''' ★ Release date: November 2007 ★ RIAA certification: ★ Singles:

Singles

Year	Single	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. R&B	U.S. Rap	UK singles	Album
2003	"Right Thurr"	2	2	'1'	17	''Jackpot''
2003	"Holidae In" (feat. Snoop Dogg & Ludacris)	3	2	2	35	''Jackpot''
2003	"Shorty" (Busta Rhymes feat. Fat Joe, Chingy & Nick Cannon)	-	-	-	-	''Love Don't Cost A Thing (soundtrack)''
2004	"One Call Away" (feat. J-Weav)	2	3	'1'	26	''Jackpot''
2004	"I Like That" (Houston feat. Chingy, Nate Dogg & I-20)	11	14	6	11	''It's Already Written''
2004	"Fightin' In The Club" (I-20 feat. Chingy, Lil' Fate & Tity Boy)	-	-	-	-	''Powerballin'
2004	"Balla Baby"	20	17	7	34	''Powerballin'
2005	"Don't Worry" (feat. Janet Jackson)	—	60	—	—	''Powerballin'
2006	"Pulling Me Back" (feat. Tyrese)	9	'1'	'1'	44	''Hood Star''
2006	"Dem Jeans" (featuring Jermaine Dupri)	59	57	19	-	''Hood Star''
2007	"Celebrity Chick" (DTP)	-	-	-	-	''Strength In Numbers''

Videos

★ "Right Thurr" (BET Version)

★ "Right Thurr" (Uncut)

★ "Holidae In" (featuring Snoop Dogg & Ludacris)

★ "Jackpot"

★ "One Call Away" (featuring J-Weav)/"Chingy Jackpot"

★ "Right Thurr (Remix)" (featuring Jermaine Dupri & Trina)

★ "Balla Baby (Remix)"(featuring Lil' Flip and Lil' Boosie)

★ "Pullin' Me Back" (featuring Tyrese)

★ "Dem Jeans" (featuring Jermaine Dupri)

★ "Nike Aurr's and Crispy Tee's"

★ "Celebrity Chick" (with DTP)

★ "Bounce That" is another video by Chingy off the Hoodstar album which concept is much similar to Pussy Poppin and Disco Inferno. However it was leaked onto the internet and is very hard to find. Because of it's explict content it is not shown on Television, not even BET>

Acting

★ ''My Wife and Kids'' (2005)

★ ''The George Lopez Show'' as himself (2005)

★ ''One on One'' (2005)

★ ''Scary Movie 4 as himself (2006)

★ ''System Within'' as Nick (2006)

★ ''Yo Momma'' as himself (2006)

★ ''Crack Heads'' (2007)

References

1. [1]
2. http://www.clickitaliansoftware.net/hosted/vgcgroup/WorldwideAlbum/2006todate.htm
3. http://www.clickitaliansoftware.net/hosted/vgcgroup/WorldwideAlbum/2006todate.htm

External links

★ Chingy Official Site

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★ Exclusive Chingy interview at TrulyHollywood.com