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Tiffany Lane (born August 16, 1974), better known by her stage name Charli Baltimore, is an American rapper and television personality. Her stage name is taken from Geena Davis's character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Career

Charli Baltimore began her musical career when she met the Notorious B.I.G. in the summer of 1995, and they became involved in a romantic relationship. Several months into their relationship, she left him a voicemail of a rap verse that she had written and he began encouraging her to pursue a career in rap music.

Following the death of B.I.G., Charli continued her career in the industry, booking several modeling jobs and creating a number of hip-hop and R&B songs including "Money", with Gamble and Huff, and "Stand Up", which rose to the top ten of the Billboard Magazine "Hot Rap Singles Chart". Despite her moderate success on the charts, Baltimore's first studio album Cold as Ice was never released.

In 2001, she signed to Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records. Baltimore's first appearance as a Murder Inc. signee was on Ja Rule's "Down Ass Bitch", which peaked in the top 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single landed on Ja Rule's third studio album, Pain Is Love, which sold over three million copies in America. The following year, she appeared on the Murder Inc. compilation album, Irv Gotti Presents: The Inc., making appearances on the songs ""We Still Don't Give a Fuck", "No One Does It Better", and the album's lead single, Down 4 U. Down 4 U was another success for Baltimore, peaking in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. She also appeared on "The Last Temptation", as well as the Christina Milian track "Spending Time", and Ashanti's "Rain on Me" (remix). In 2003, she earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, for her single "Diary". Baltimore parted ways with Irv Gotti and Murder Inc in 2004.

In 2019, Charli was announced as a cast member on WeTV's Growing Up Hip Hop, with daughter, Sianni.

Discography

Studio albums

• Cold as Ice (1999)

Unreleased albums

• The Diary (You Think You Know) (2003)

Mixtapes

• Natural Born Khronicles (2012)
• Hard 2 Kill (2013)

Singles

• "Money" (1998)
• "Stand Up" (featuring Ghostface Killah) (1999)
• "Feel It" (1999)
• "Horse and Carriage (Remix)" (1999)
• "Everybody Wanna Know" (2000)
• "Charli" (2000)
• "Nobody Does It Better" (featuring Ashanti) (2002)
• "Diary" (2002)
• "Hey Charli" (2002)
• "Come Test Us" (featuring Lil Wayne) (2007)
• "Lose It" (2008)
• "P.S." (2008)
• "Machine Gun (Remix)" (featuring Sally Anthony) (2011)
• "All Lies " (featuring Maino) (2012)
• "Philly Stand Up" (featuring Dutch) (2012)
• "B.M.B" (featuring Trick Trick) (2013)
• "Hunnids" (featuring Trick Trick and Cash Paid) (2013)
• "Bed Full of Money" (2015)

Featured singles

Guest appearances

• 1998: "Me & My Boo" Cam'ron – Confessions of Fire
• 1998: "Walk On By" Fat Joe – Don Cartagena
• 2000: "Mind Right Freestyle" Dj Whoo Kid, Foxy Brown (rapper)
• 2000: "Blak is Blak" – Bamboozled soundtrack
• 2001: "Spending Time" – Christina Milian – Christina Milian
• 2002: "We Still Don't Give a Fuck", "No One Does It Better" – Irv Gotti Presents: The Inc.
• 2002: "I'm So Happy (Remix)" – Irv Gotti Presents: The Remixes
• 2002: "Last Temptation" Ja Rule – The Last Temptation
• 2007: "I Am" Mýa – Liberation

References

1. "Biography". AllMusic.
2. "Uk.askmen.com". Archived from the original on April 22, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
3. ^ "Charli Baltimore Biography". Hip Hop Scriptures. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
4. "CHARLI BALTIMORE ONCE CAUGHT BIGGIE CHEATING ON HER AND WROTE A RAP ABOUT IT". hiphopdx.com. August 30, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
5. "Catching up with Charli Baltimore - Growing Up Hip Hop: New York". Youtube. August 26, 2019.
6. "Charli Baltimore – Hard 2 Kill". UrbanMixtape.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

Further reading

• Hope, Clover (2021). The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-1-4197-4296-5.

External links

• Charli Baltimore on Instagram
• Charli Baltimore discography at Discogs

• 1974 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American women rappers
• African-American women rappers
• Rappers from Philadelphia
• Peirce College people
• American hip-hop singers
• African-American women singer-songwriters
• American women singer-songwriters
• Hardcore hip-hop artists
• East Coast hip-hop musicians
• Murder Inc. Records artists
• 21st-century American rappers
• American women hip-hop singers
• 21st-century African-American women
• 21st-century African-American musicians
• 20th-century African-American musicians
• 20th-century African-American women
• Singer-songwriters from Pennsylvania