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New Orleans rapper BG won’t go back to prison – but judge will scrutinize lyrics

Musician is on supervised release, and judge’s reading will decide whether he is adequately attempting to ‘re-enter society’

But a federal judge is prepared to scrutinize every lyric the musician, whose legal name is Christopher Dorsey, has written since he got out of prison on gun charges to determine whether he is adequately attempting “to re-enter society as a responsible, law-abiding citizen” – or whether his supervised release conditions should be tightened, according to new court filings. A federal probation officer successfully requested in March that Dorsey be arrested on allegations that he failed to obtain the necessary clearance to perform at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he now lives, alongside fellow rapper Lil Boosie. They point to more recent lyrics in which Dorsey allegedly exalts freeing Telly Hankton and Walter “Moonie” Porter, notorious figures in New Orleans who were each sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted in a drug-dealing and gang-violence racketeering case attributing multiple murders to them.

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