Howard Bailey, Jr., better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American hip-hop music artist.
His hits date back to 2003 and include: “Right Thurr,” “Holidae In,” “One Call Away” featuring Jason Weaver, 
“Balla Baby” and more recently, “Pullin’ Me Back” featuring Tyrese, and “Dem Jeans” featuring Jermaine Dupri. Chingy has recently ceased his dispute with Disturbing tha Peace and has officially signed back to them.
Chingy was featured on various DTP songs and songs with artists such as Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe, Ja Rule, Nick Cannon, and appeared on the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack. Chingy also became a huge cameo man as he appeared in videos by Lil Jon, J-Kwon, Ludacris, DTP, Shawnna, Snoop Dogg and others. He still was not very well-known to the public. Ludacris had put out some promo singles to create hype around Chingy. This was not very successful, initially. He then went back into the studio to record one more song, “Right Thurr”; originally this was just a promo song, but due to its success, it was made the lead single from his debut album, Jackpot. Disturbing Tha Peace then quickly helped Chingy complete his album. He was unable to secure a deal with Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam at the time, so Ludacris negotiated a deal to distribute Chingy through Capitol Records.
