Rapper and media personality Heather B., born Heather Gardner in Jersey City,
New Jersey on November 13, 1971, got her big break when she was cast in the
first season of MTV’s reality series The Real World in 1992. At the time she had
ties to Boogie Down Productions, but her debut album came in 1996 with Takin’
Mine. The leadoff single, “All Glocks Down”, sought to bring attention to and
stop gun violence. Her TV and rap cred led to her acting in the movie Dead
Presidents. The 1998 single “Do You” was her most successful single on the pop
chart, landing in the bottom half of the ...