IT ALL STATRED OUT WIT SUM PLAYAS FROM DA HOOD WIT BIG DREAMS. Q- SHEP WAS ALREADY RAPPING 4 SHANNON HOUCHINS AT ALPHA 2 OMEGA STUDIOS. SHANNON HOUCHINS WORKED 4 JERMAIN DUPREE AT SOSO DEF. Q SHEP RAP PARTNER EDDIE JOYNER( WHICH IS THE TRUE OWNER OF STEVENS FUNERAL HOME) GOT LOCKED UP IN FLA. SO DAT LEFT Q-SHEP 2 GO SOLO UNTILL HE GOT WIT HIS FRIEND JAMES SCOTT AND ESAVIOUS WRIGHT. THEY FORMED THE GROUP BORN LOSERS. AFTER A COUPLE OF DEMOS Q-SHEP AND ZE PARTED WAYS WITH JAMES AND BECAME IZM. JAMES WENT SOLO BUT RAN INTO TROUBLE WITH THE LAW AND IS NOW IN PRISON ( FREE FATHER DEATH). SHEP AND ZE WENT FURTHER WITH THEIR SKILLS AND ADDED ANOTHER HOOD FRIEND INTO IZM. A PLAYA BY THE NAME OF BRENDON AKA LIL B. NOW DURING THIS TIME OF THE EMCESS HONING THEIR SKILLS SHANNON HOUCHINS MOVED 2 ATLANTA 2 FURTHER HIS CAREER. FIONA JOHNSON ALSO JUMPED SHIP. IZM CHOSE NOT 2 GO AND STAYED BEHIND IN THE DEPTS OF HELL CALLED VALDOSTA. BUT SHANNON LEFT BEHIND A PROJECT HE STARTED WITH A TRUE HOOD NIGGA. A RECORD COMPANY CALLED BIG BOSS RECORDS. IT HAD REAL NIGGA ARTIST FROM THE HOOD LIKE D.C.E., VONDA WRIGHT AND DOUBLE O. BUT AFTER HATING FROM THE LAW CAME DOWN. THE WHOLE OPERATION FOLDED. DURING THIS TIME IZM CHANGED THE NAME TO BLACK DRAGON CARTEL, AND CONTINUED 2 ROCK 4 THE HOOD WITH THIER LONG TIME DJ K-HYPE. BUT SHIT SLOWED DOWN 4 THE GROUP UNTILL SHEP GOT A CALL FROM SHANNON INVITING HIM 2 COME ALONG ON THE BUBBA SPARKXXX RIDE. THAT REJUVINATED THE GROUP AND THEY GOT BACK AT IT IN 2004-2005. THEY OPENED UP THEIR OWN STUDIO IN A SACRED HOOD CALLED LIL MIAMI WHERE ONLY TRILL NIGGAS REST AT. THEY DROPPED A HOOD GEM CALLED SINNERSVILLE CLASSIC WITH LOCAL HOOD HEROES ON IT. EVERYTHING WAS GOING GOOD UNTILL ESAVIOUS WRIGHT DIED SUDDENLY WHILE IN THE COUNTY JAIL. IT WAS A MAJOR LOSS 4 SO MANY PEOPLE. BUT WERE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER IN O7, WITH NEW DUECE SQUAD, KFC, JOHN JOHN, BDC, AND A GANG OF NEW SHIT. THATS ONLY PART OF THE BDC HISTORY, WE HAVE ROCKED SHOWS FROM HERE 2 ATL. OPENING UP 4 MANY ARTIST AND ALSO BEING FEATURED AND GHOSTWRITING 4 HIGH PROFILE NAMES. PLEASE DONT SLEEP, BE AFRIAD, CUZ ITS MANY FUCKAS THINKING THE KINGS IS OUT DA GAME. NIGGA WE RENAMED THIS CITY VALDILLY. DATS ON US PLAYA SO LUV OR LEAVE IT ALONE WE BACK AND AT IT AGAIN. I'M ONLY HERE 2 GIVE DA TRUTH PARTNA, FUK WIT US..