Chingy (Howard Bailey Jr.) was born on March 9, 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri 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.

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".