BG the Prince of Rap  EuroDance Group Added : 24/01/2000 Viewed 6205 times                                   89 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Albums

The Power Of Rhythm	1991
The Time Is Now	1994
Get The Groove On	1996

Singles

Rap To The World	1990
Take Control Of The Party	Jan 1991
The Power Of Rhythm	Apr 1991
This Beat Is Hot	Jun 1991
Give Me The Music	Sep 1991
Can We Get Enough	21st Apr 1993
The Colour Of My Dreams	Apr 1994
Rock A Bit	8th Aug 1994
Can't Love You	Mar 1995
Take Me Through The Night	28th Jan 1996
Stomp	20th Mar 1996
Jump To This	7th Nov 1996

Remixes

Rap To The World	1990
This Beat Is Hot	1991
Can We Get Enough	1993
The Colour Of My Dreams	1994
Stomp	1996

Featurings

Big T - Bad Boy	2004
Michael Thomas - We Stood In Flames	21st Nov 2009

Songwriting

BG the Prince of Rap - Can We Get Enough

21st Apr 1993

Biography

Producers : Jam El Mar, Stefan Benz
Rappers : B.G. the Prince Of Rap, Marko Kranjcevic 'DJ Kut Master Kay'
Singers : Paris Red, Joan Faulkner, Chi Chi Ordu, Sabine Schmidt, Janet Taylor

B.G. The Prince OF Rap (real name : Bernard Greene, born in Washington DC) belongs to those artists, who, since the beginning of the 90s, has been contributing to the German dance-scene development. His albums The Power Of Rhythm (1991) and The Time Is Now (1994) have brought him the success he deserved.

Since 1985 this native American has been living in Germany, and like so many artists before him, the U.S. Army brought him to Europe. After he left the Army, he began to live of his talents of singer and dancer which he had discovered during his scholarship. "Everything began in a Gospelchoir at school", he tells. "My first musical experience was in a Rhythm & Blues style, which still remains my favourite music style".

Without any difficulty he made his place on the Frankfurter scene, awarding first places in many rap contests. So much talent could not remains unnoticed, and he was soon contacted by the producers who would launch his international carreer. Among these internationally recognized people was Jam El Mar who had already made some remixes for Dr. Alban, Enigma, Frankie Goes to of Hollywood or Quincy Jones, and Stefan Benz, who co-wrote the lyrics of B.G.' s songs. With this team B.G. could really deserve his surname 'The Prince OF Rap'.

Among all his releases, let's mention the huge Eurodance hits Can We Get Enough (# 19 in Israel), The Colour Of My Dreams (# 10 in Israel and a big hit there even nowadays in the clubs) or Can't Love You.

For BG the public shows are as significant as the presence on the radio and in the charts. "Live appearances", he says, "are particularly important to me. There I can really emphasize fully my qualities of rapper. In studio I can only show a part of what I can do". His shows are thus already well-known, and they allow BG to make his public discover his new creations, like Stomp. Released in 1996, this tracks contains some fast rap inserts, carried by very housy beats, in the style of Outhere brothers or 740 Boyz. 'It's a cover of a song by Brother Johnston, a song I always enjoyed. The idea of transposing it in the 90s made me enthousiastic'. This single announced a new album, with 'more raps, and more soul in the accommodations'.

2004 : BG was featured by Big T for the single Bad Boy.

2005 : the German project Jet Set covered BG's hit Colour Of My Dreams. As for BG, he is now working at a museum near Wiesbaden in Germany where he moved in September 2005.

2009 : in August, for the first time since many years, BG the Prince of Rap and Janet Taylor performed in a club in Mainz (Germany). In November, both were featured by Michael Thomas on the single We Stood In Flames

OASE Music
Copyright ©1997 Eurodance WWW & Björn Hardestam.
Thanks to Florent "v_uba", Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkine, DJ Brothers ,and Philipp Hornun

The biography was last updated Sat, January 02nd 2010

Links

Fansites

BG the Prince of Rap unofficial website
BG the Prince of Rap's pictures at DWS