Craig G

Craig Curry (born March 24, 1973), better known by his stage name Craig G, is an American rapper. He is perhaps best known as one of the members of hip-hop producer Marley Marl's Cold Chillin' Records group Juice Crew.

He recorded the single "Shout Rap" with Marley Marl in 1985 at 12 years old and in 1988 recorded "The Symphony" with Juice Crew described by Allmusic as "a landmark moment in the evolution of hardcore rap".

Career Craig G was a leading freestyle battle rapper memorably battling Supernatural on several occasions, and in the early 2000s wrote and coordinated the battle verses used by Eminem and his opponents in the film 8 Mile. The next year he wrote the character Dangerous' lyrics in 50 Cent's feature film Get Rich or Die Tryin'. His battle with fellow battle rapper Supernatural was a subject of the 2005 documentary Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme.

In 2008, he was part of a reunited Juice Crew performing at the A3C Hip Hop Festival in Atlanta.

In 2012 he released his fourth solo album Ramblings Of An Angry Old Man. He was recording an as yet to be titled E.P. With Da Beatminerz Craig G dropped his fifth LP titled I Rap & Go Home on June 3, 2016. He recently leaked music from the project online Craig G new project the fragile ego will release September 4, 2020 Craig G will release a new album titled “The World Is Cooked” November 1st 2024

Discography Albums Studio albums + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positions USR&B/HH The Kingpin Released: October 24, 1989 Label: Atlantic Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download — Now, That's More Like It Released: March 19, 1991 Label: Atlantic Format: CD, cassette, digital download 97 This Is Now!!! Released: May 20, 2003 Label: D&D Records Format: CD, LP, digital download 99 Ramblings of an Angry Old Man Released: October 30, 2012 Label: Soulspazm Format: CD, LP, digital download I Rap and Go Home Released: June 3, 2016 Label: Soulspazm Format: LP, digital download — Lost Chronicles(with The Grinda & T-Leada) Released: August 8, 2019 Label: D3G Ent. Format: LP, digital download — Can't Stop the Funk Volume 1(with KeemBeats) Released: December 27, 2019 Label: Boogie Shack Music Group. Format: Digital download — The World Is Cooked(Featuring Chuck D, KRS-One, B-Real, DV Alias Khrist, Chubb Rock & Freeway) Released: November 1, 2024 Label: Soulspazm Format: Digital download Producer: The Manorail Mix Engineer: Kjetil "Harlekin" Hatletveit Mastering Engineer: Mat Leffler-Schulman — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Mixtapes + List of mixtapes, with year released Title Mixtape details This Is Now! Official Bootleg Mixtape(with DJ Evil Dee) Released: 2003 Label: MasterTapes

Group albums + List of group albums Title Album details Climate Control(as part of Silent Majority) Released: June 27, 2006 Label: CurryPack Records Format: CD

Collaborative albums + List of collaborative albums Title Album details Operation Take Hip Hop Back(with Marley Marl) Released: June 17, 2008 Label: Good Hands/Traffic Entertainment Group Format: CD, LP, digital download

EPs + List of extended plays Title Details The Legacy(with DJ Koss) Released: January 28, 2013 Label: Reaaal Talk Records Formats: LP, digital download The WZA Presents OG'S: Original Grown Shit(with The WZA & Egreen) Released: March 29, 2019 Label: Skill To Deal Records Formatos: LP, digital download Striketeam(with Mr. Cheeks) Released: May 10, 2019 Label: WunderTwinz Formats: Digital download Limelight Released: July 30, 2020 Label: Soulspazm Formats: Digital download The Fragile Ego Released: September 4, 2020 Label: Soulspazm Formats: Digital download The World According to You(with Shawneci Icecold) Released: December 30, 2020 Label: Zachary Raskin Formats: Digital download The Pen Is Mightier(with BigBob) Released: January 18, 2021 Label: Elite Sound International Formats: CD, digital download The Assignment(with Nivek Bogeezi & Tone Spliff) Released: April 16, 2021 Label: Mind Write Music Formats: CD, digital download

Singles As lead artist

+ List of singles, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album US Rap "Transformer" 1985 —Street Sounds Electro 10 "Shout" — "Turn This House Into a Home" 1989 — The Kingpin "Shootin' The Gift" 1990 — "U-R Not The 1" 1991 16 Now, That's More Like It "Sing-A-Long/Welcome 2 The Game" 1998 — "Cash Money"(with Domination Statuz) 1999 — "Depopulator/The Freestyle" — "Say What You Want/The Executioner Song" 2002 — This Is Now!!! "Let's Get Up"(with Marley Marl) 2003 — "Stomped/Make You Say Yes" — "Made the Change/Deep Down" 2008 — Operation Take Hip Hop Back "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Guest appearances