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BG, B.G., or bg may refer to:

Computing[link]

• bg (Unix), Unix command for background processes

Companies and organizations[link]

• British Government, the government of the United Kingdom
• Bergdorf Goodman BG.com, department store on 5th Avenue, New York
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines IATA airline code
• Bord Gáis, Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board
• Bowling Green State University
• Bowman Gilfillan, a major South African law firm
• British Gas (disambiguation) (privatised and later split between BG plc and Centrica)
  • BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc
• Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association, a non-government organization based in Bangalore, India
• Bingham and Garfield Railway
• Bones Gate, a Dartmouth College fraternity

Other[link]

• Blood glucose, or blood sugar
• Bad game, internet slang that may be used at the end of a close game or match as a sign of non-competitive or generally poor sportsmanship (the opposite of GG, meaning good game)
• Baldur's Gate, the first role-playing computer game in the Baldur's Gate series
• Bank guarantee
• Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction TV series
• Brigadier General, a military rank (more usually written BGen)
• Beautiful Garbage, the third studio album by Garbage
• Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
• Broad gauge
• Border guard, police that function in border only
• Brian Griffin, a character on Family Guy voiced by Seth MacFarlane
• "Before Google", abbreviation

People and groups[link]

• Barry Goldwater, American politician
• Berry Gordy, founder and former CEO of Motown Records
• Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
• Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
• Bee Gees, or the "Brothers Gibb"
• Brothers Grimm, famous writing group in the 19th century that wrote stories such as "Snow White" and "Cinderella"
• The Dartmouth College fraternity Bones Gate

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Places[link]

• Bangkok Glass F.C.
• Bangladesh, obsolete two-letter NATO country code
• Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
• Bhārat Gaṇarājya, another name for India
• Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, WMO country code
• Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Bowling Green, Ohio
• British Guiana (now the co-operative republic of Guyana)
• Buffalo Grove, Illinois
• Bulgaria, two-letter ISO country code
  • .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
  • Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

Schools[link]

• Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, a Higher Education Institution in Lincoln, UK
• Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Music[link]

• B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta" or "B. Gizzle"), American rapper Christopher N. Dorsey
• The B.G.'z, an American teenage hip-hop duo, composes of rappers B.G. and Lil Wayne
• B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist
• B.G. Knocc Out, an American rapper
• Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
• Blind Guardian, a German power-metal band
• BarlowGirl, a Christian rock band composed of three sisters
• "Barbie Girl", a song by Aqua in 1997

Anatomy[link]

• Basal ganglia, a group of nuclei in the brain

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Byron O. Thomas,^[1] (born March 20, 1969) better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is currently an artist and hip-hop producer who records for Def Jam South and his own division Chubby Boy Records. He is probably most famous for his time producing tracks for Cash Money Records from 1993 to 2005, and one half of the hip-hop duo Big Tymers with Birdman.

Biography[link]

Thomas began loving music at the age of nine as a local New Orleans DJ, playing songs at parties and clubs. In the late 1980s he began a partnership with New Orleans rapper MC Gregory D. They released their first album together Throwdown in 1987, with Mannie Fresh producing and MC Gregory D rapping. They would release two more records together in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After their last album together, in 1993 Thomas met Bryan "Baby" Williams who gave him an opportunity to become the in-house producer of his record label Cash Money Records. With Williams's help, Thomas made chart-topping albums for the Hot Boys, which was composed of Lil Wayne, B.G., Juvenile, and Turk, producing all of the group’s singles. He also produced all tracks on the members’ solo works as well.^[2] Later, Thomas formed the Big Tymers along with Williams, as Mannie Fresh and Birdman respectively, and released five albums.^[3] In 2004, he released his own debut solo album The Mind of Mannie Fresh, which consisted of 30 tracks and featured the single “Real Big,” which peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[4] In 2005, he split from Cash Money for financial reasons, and later joined Def Jam South, to which he is currently signed.^[5] On October 27, 2009, Mannie Fresh released his second solo album, Return of the Ballin'. The album was entirely produced by Fresh himself and featured prominent guests Rick Ross and Lil Jon.

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• 2004: The Mind of Mannie Fresh
• 2009: Return of the Ballin'

Links[link]

• Exclusive iStandard iNterview w/ Mannie Fresh
• Mannie Fresh RBMA lecture

References[link]

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James Tapp, Jr. (September 9, 1977 – November 26, 2003),^[1] better known by his stage name Soulja Slim, was an American rapper who achieved massive success on Master P's No Limit record label. He also achieved fame throughout New Orleans and Nation Wide from his work done with B.G., UNLV, and other local artists. He is known for writing the U.S. No. 1 hit "Slow Motion".^[2]

Life and music career[link]

James Tapp was raised either in the Magnolia Projects or in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans. He attended Booker T. Washington High School before dropping out of school his sophomore year. Tapp released his debut album, Soulja fa Lyfe, on Parkway Pumpin' Records in 1994 under the name Magnolia Slim. In 1995, he released the four-song e.p. The Dark Side on Hype Enough Records. In the same year, the song "You Got It" appeared on No Limit Records double-CD compilation Down South Hustlers: Bouncin' and Swingin' . In 1998, Tapp, now calling himself Soulja Slim, released Give It 2 'Em Raw on No Limit Records with his single and video "From What I Was Told." Soulja Slim was convicted of armed robbery and incarcerated.^[1] He reappeared three years later with Streets Made Me, which was again released on the No Limit label. From there, he started his own label, Cut Throat Committee Records and released Years Later in late 2002. In 2003, he released Years Later...A Few Months After, his last album before his death. The album featured the hit "I'll Pay for It". In 2003 he also collaborated with fellow New Orleans rapper Juvenile to make the song "Slow Motion". The song was released on Juvenile's album Juve the Great and reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Soulja Slim and Juvenile's first No. 1 hit, and as the song was released after Soulja Slim's death he became only the sixth artist to have a posthumous No. 1 song.

Shooting and death[link]

On Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2003, Slim was en-route to a performance when an unknown gunman shot him four times; three times in the face, and once in the chest, in front of his mother's home in the Gentilly.^[3] Soulja Slim was buried with his Cutthroat Committee charm and jewelry and also the leather camo clothes he's shown wearing on the cover of Give It 2 em' Raw. On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2003, police arrested 22 year old Garelle Smith in connection with Tapp's murder but was released months later. In August 2011, Smith was found dead with gunshot wounds to the face and chest.^[4]

Discography[link]

• 1993: dark side
• 1998: Give It 2 'Em Raw
• 2001: The Streets Made Me
• 2002: Years Later
• 2003: Years Later...A Few Months After
• 2005: Greatest Hitz

References[link]

External links[link]

	New Orleans portal
	Biography portal
	Hip hop portal

• Soulja Slim on Myspace
• Soulja Slim at Find a Grave