Jay-Z

Jay-Z

male, 40 years old
Hip-Hop, known by pseudonym, musician, East Coast Rapper, New York City musician, National Basketball Association…FromBrooklyn
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1968), better known as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and current president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella...
Mos Def

Mos Def

male, 35 years old
Da Bush Babees, Hurricane Katrina, underground hip hop, de la soul, Black Star, rawkus records…FromBrooklyn
Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA), is an American rapper and actor. Mos Def started his rap...
Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli

male, 34 years old
Brooklyn, New York City, Black Star, New York City musician, Swahili language, Alternative hip hop, New York University…FromBrooklyn
Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene in Brooklyn, New York City on October 3, 1975) is an American MC from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the...
Spike Lee

Spike Lee

male, 52 years old (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
film director, Screenwriter, Columbia University, society, FromBrooklyn, Morehouse College alumni…From Atlanta
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and...
Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes

male, 37 years old
East Coast Rapper, drunk driver, leader of the new school, whoo hah, known by pseudonym, New York rapper…from Nassau County, New York, FromBrooklyn, From Long Island
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. (born on May 20 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip hop musician and actor of Jamaican descent. Chuck...
Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

male, 43 years old
African American, boxer, rape, knocked out, declared bankruptcy, Malik Abdul Aziz…FromBrooklyn
Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion. To date Tyson is the youngest man to have won a...
Woody Allen

Woody Allen

male, 73 years old
comedian, film actor, actor, Screenwriter, film director, Jewish…FromBrooklyn
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of...
Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown

female, 30 years old
rapper, New York City musician, park slope, Roc-A-Fella Records artist, Trinidadian American, Indian American…FromBrooklyn, from New York City, fron brooklyn
Inga Marchand (born September 6 1979, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper of Afro-Trinidadian and...
Mae West

Mae West

female, deceased (1980)
musician, Jewish person, Burlesque performer, Hollywood Walk of Fame, German-American, stage actor…FromBrooklyn
Mae West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double...
Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

male, deceased (1972)
African Americans' rights activist, baseball player, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Star, Country star, athletic…FromBrooklyn, From Pasadena, CALIFORNIA, from New York City, From Georgia, from Stamford, Connecticut
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson became the first African-American professional baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first...