User:B-gyrl

b-gyrl is short for bgyrl4life, a hip hop activist, online personality and blogger. In addition, she is the creative and technological force behind many urban networks, online radio stations and podcasts (including www.planet-hiphop.com, www.conscioushiphop.com, www.b-gyrl.com, www.thedirtysouth.com, www.stlhiphop.com and www.unignedhype.org), www.hiphop-tracks.net, one of the first online, digital & mobile record pools and also serves as CEO of Digable Records NMA, the first hip hop digital label that launched on mp3.com where she was mentored and served as Hip Hop Music Director under The Grand Ark U Tech Paradise of the legendary X-Clan and former manager for hip hop's prestigious Latin Quarters.

Digable Records NMA's catalog included "Get Your Self Up" by KRS-One, "When the Fat Lady Sings" by DJ Muggs ft GZA, "Allies" by The Poor Righteous Teachers featuring The Fugees and Nightmare in A Minor, the last Gravediggaz release...

It is while serving as Hip Hop Music Director at mp3.com, she launched www.stlhiphop.com, an urban music site dedicated to St. Louis hip hop when all the pieces fell into place: a local rapper named Nelly signed with Universal, which at the time owned mp3.com where she was a member of the online team credited with breaking Nelly online. Nelly went on to go 9X Platnium on his debut release Country Grammer.

In early 2000, Digable Records was picked up by Microsoft Music, the only hip hop imprint to be signed to a digital distribution deal with Microsoft during their experimentation with digital distribution, ie Zune, before turning their catalog over to MusicNet, now MediaNet, a partnership between RealNetworks, Time/War & EMI.