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12 Gauge (rapper)

American rapper from Georgia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4548709 ↗
Source-derived summary

Isiah Pinkney (born 1968), known professionally as 12 Gauge, is an American rapper, singer, and DJ.

He started out as a DJ, moving to rapping in the early 1990s, releasing three full-length albums. He is best known for his only top 40 single, "Dunkie Butt", which peaked at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a gold certification.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “12 Gauge (rapper)” is american rapper from Georgia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gauge, rapper and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-01-01. For this dossier, Gauge, rapper and American is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4548709. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “12 Gauge (rapper)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.