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50 Cent 50 Cent (real name Curtis James Jackson III) is a highly successful rapper from Queens, NYC. He has released three solo albums to date: Power of the Dollar (1999), Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003), The Massacre (2005). He was also featured...
Akon Aliaune Thiam (born April 16, 1977), better known by his stage name Akon (pronounced /ˈeɪkɒn/), is a Wolof Senegalese-American hip hop singer-songwriter,and record producer. Akon rose to...
Alicia Keys Alicia Keys (born Alicia Augello-Cook; January 25, 1981) is an American Soul/r&b singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, pianist, cellist and actress. Keys is a renowned artist who has sold over...
Ashanti Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980 in Glen Cove, New York), professionally known as Ashanti, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, and...
Beyonce Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas, USA) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Knowles rose to stardom in the late 1990s as a...
Birdman Bryan Williams, better known by his stage name Birdman, is an American rapper and record executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, Williams and his older brother Ronald “Slim” Williams founded the...
Bow Wow Shad Gregory Moss (born March 9, 1987 in Columbus, Ohio), better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper, actor, and music producer. In 1993, he performed at a concert in Los Angeles and was...
Chris Brown Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) from Tappahannock, Virginia. In late 2005, he released his first studio album, Chris Brown, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one debut single, “Run It!” which was...
Ciara Ciara is a singer, dancer, songwriter, and actress who has won 8 ASCAP awards, a Grammy, and several Soul Train Awards and Lady Of Soul Awards...
Drake Aubrey “Drake” Graham (born October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, rapper and singer signed to Universal Records. So far he has released three mixtapes, 2006’s Room for Improvement, 2007’s Comeback Season, and 2009’s critically acclaimed...
The-Dream Terius Youngdell Nash, most popularly known as “The-Dream” was born in Rockingham, North Carolina. At the age of two he moved with his mother to Atlanta, Georgia where she raised him until her sudden death at the age...
Flo Rida Tramar Dillard [born December 16th 1979], better known by the stage name of Flo Rida, is an American rapper. He was born in Opa-locka, Florida but raised in Carol City, and chose his name from his home state. As a teenager...
Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx (born Eric Morlon Bishop, Jr. on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), is an Academy Award winning actor, Grammy Award nominated multi-platinum selling R&B singer, and comedian. He has three multi-platnium...
Jazmine Sullivan A brief timeline of some of Sullivan’s musical accomplishments is enough to make any artist blush. At 11, she made her national television debut on Showtime at the Apollo, where she sang “Accept What God Allows”...
Jay-Z Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York), is an american hip hop artist and former president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records. He is more commonly known as Jay-Z or by a...
John Legend John Legend (born John Stephens on December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio) is an American Grammy winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut album, the platinum selling Get Lifted produced by Kanye West, was released in ...
Kanye West Kanye West is an American producer and rapper (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia). He began making beats and rapping circa 1996 when he formed the rap group GO GETTERS with Chicago natives GLC and Really Doe...
Keri Hilson Keri Hilson (born December 5, 1982) is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to Zone 4/Mosley Music Group/Interscope Records. She is part of a collective of writers and producers known as The Clutch...
Keyshia Cole Keyshia Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an R&B singer-songwriter born to an African-American mother and an Italian father. Keyshia Cole was born in Oakland, California to Francine (Frankie) Lons. Her mother’s friends Yvonne...
Lil Jon Atlanta and the surrounding area had always been a hotbed for party rap and bass music throughout the ’90s, and more than anyone else, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz took these styles to the masses with a cutting-edge Dirty South attitude perfect for the burgeoning club scene of the time. The Atlanta-based rapper/producer began as a club DJ before Jermaine Dupri invited him in 1993 to come work for So So Def Records, where Jon served as the executive vice president of AR. In...
Lil Kim Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1975), also known as Lil’ Kim and the Queen Bee, is an American rap music artist, known for her sexually explicit lyrics and the revealing outfits she wears in her public appearances and...
Lil Wayne Lil Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a four-time Grammy Award-winner. He first hit the music scene as one of the Hot Boys, an American...
Ludacris Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois), once known as Chris Lova Lova and best known as Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. He eventually moved to Atlanta, where he would...
Mary J. Blige R&B soul artist Mary Jane Blige was born January 11th, 1971, in Yonkers, New York. When her debut album, What’s the 411?, hit the street in 1992...
Missy Elliott Missy Elliott (born Melissa Arnette Elliott on July 1, 1971) is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Elliott was originally known as Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott. She dropped the “Misdemeanor” from her...
Ne-Yo Ne-Yo (born Shaffer Chimere Smith on October 18, 1982) is a Grammy Award winning American R&B singer-songwriter currently signed to Def Jam Records. He is also known for co-writing Mario’s...
Nelly Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. (born November 3, 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur signed to Universal and Derrty Records. He has been active since 1996 as the...
OutKast OutKast is an American hip hop duo based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia. The duo was originally known as The OKB (The OutKast Brothers) but later changed its name to OutKast...
Plies Plies (born Algernod Lanier Washington on July 1, 1976) is an American rapper from Fort Myers, Florida. Plies graduated from Fort Myers High School in 1994 and began pursuing his rap career soon after. His debut album...
Rick Ross Rick Ross is a true boss from Carol City in the 305 M.I.Yayo. If he’s not in the studio cooking up some heat he can be found in the streets pushing weight. Songs like “Hustlin” and “Push It” all support...
Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), who performs under the mononym Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer, model, and former beauty queen. She also serves as the cultural ambassador for Barbados...
Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg (born Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. on October 20, 1972 in Long Beach, California) is a rapper and actor. Snoop is best known as a famous MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one...
Soulja Boy DeAndre Cortez Way (born July 28, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American rapper better known by his stage name Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em, or simply Soulja Boy. In September 2007, his single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” reached number one...
T.I. Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is an American rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records...
T-Pain T-Pain (born Faheem Najim in Tallahassee, Florida in 1985) is an American hip-hop singer. At the age of ten he turned his bedroom into a small studio with a keyboard, beat machine and four-track...
Trey Songz Trey Songz (born Tremaine Aldon Neverson in Petersburg, Virginia on November 28, 1984) is an African American contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. His debut album was Gotta Make It, released by...
Usher Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known simply as Usher, is an American R&B-pop singer-songwriter and actor. Called an “R&B teen dream” by Rolling Stone, Usher was only 15 years old when he...
Young Jeezy Young Jeezy (born Jay L. Jenkins in Columbia, SC) grew up in Hawkinsville, Georgia. He currently resides in the metro-Atlanta area. He is an American rapper who is signed to Def Jam Records as a...
Yung Joc Yung Joc (born Jasiel A. Robinson on April 2, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper from College Park, Georgia. Yung Joc is also featured on the songs “Show Stopper” by...
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