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Victor Jonathan Corujo (born December, 25th, 1994) known professionally as Bigg Dogg is an American rapper, songwriter and producer. He is one of New York's City's most talked about artists of the late 2010's and is amongst a small lists of artists who continued the New York style culture in his music during the transition and rise of Southern Trap Music.

Hailing from the Upper West Side of Mahattan, New York. Bigg Dogg began his music career at the age of 16 and began recording music at home studios and small spots around the city of Manhattan and The Bronx. He released his first body of work (Throwback Season) and released his first few music videos alongside his former group Ground Up Gang in the Spring of 2012.

His music gained underground noteriety and eventually the attention of Video Production Group, Creative Control. Bigg Dogg began working with Creative Control and began rubbing shoulders around Cinematic Music Group and gained a placement in Marc Ecko's Underground Airplay Mixtape (2013) with his track Mind Boggling produced by BeatsByNed alongside a music video released in February of 2013.

in 2016 He began working with Karel "Blanco" Jorge and his production team ATM WorldWide Inc. Through his work with ATM he released his debut EP "The1stFourty8" on September 11th, 2016 with his lead single "Give And Take". The Music Video gained strong underground success with over 500,000 plays on Spotify, being played on Hot 97 by Dj Peter Rosenberg and having the video placed on BET Jams and Revolt TV.

Between 2017 and 2018 Bigg Dogg released two Mixtapes, RAWByBiggDogg (April 2017) and Christmas Dinner (December 2018). He plans to release strong bodies of work between 2019 and 2020.

(Early Life) Bigg Dogg was born and raised in Manhattan's Upper West Side. He lived in the Stephen Wise Towers Projects. His mother is from Dominican Republic and moved to the country in the 1980s. His father was an Upper West Side native who was raised in the same neighborhood since the 1960s. He is the youngest of 3 and was raised in a house surrounded with Music. His parents both were heavy into Salsa and Bachata Music and his father was Heavily into Hip Hop and 1980's Freestyle Music. At Age 4 his parents split up and he would frequently spent time with his Father in The Bronx where he first began picking up Hip Hop, listening to rappers like Eminem and DMX. From ages 9 to 15 Bigg Dogg, alongside his father and grandparents, moved to Puerto Rico and spent the years traveling back and fourth. He was living Arecibo, Puerto Rico and spent most of his time in the Caserios (Housing Projects in PR) with his father and uncle. During his time around his father he gained strong knowledge of Hip Hop history. He began listening to artists like The Notorious B.I.G, Fat Joe, Snoop Dogg Big Pun, Jay-Z, Nas, Wu-Tang Clan and Jadakiss just to name a few. At the age of 14 Bigg Dogg began writing lyrics after his father bought him a computer for his birthday. He would show his father lyrics and would recieve knowledge about writing. in 2010 His father was convicted and found guilty of murder and sentenced to 114 Years in Prison. Bigg Dogg moved back to New York City after his fathers conviction and started his career as an mc.