- Lil' Kim
Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York), better known by her stage name Lil' Kim or her nickname Queen Bee, is a Grammy Award winning rap artist. Kim rose to fame in the mid 1990s and has become one of the two best selling female rappers of all time (along with Missy Elliott). - Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer. Chuck was born in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA. He helped further 1980s political rap music as the controversial and influential lead rapper of Public Enemy. - Jacki-O
Jacki-O (born Angela Kohn) is a rapper and hip-hop music artist, born in 1971 in Miami, Florida. She had small success on local radio and in the clubs of Miami. She also made appearances on mixtapes, but she didn't gain national attention until the release of her 2003 single "Nookie". In October 2004 she released her first album, "Poe Little Rich Girl". This album sold less than 70,000 units and included the singles "Nookie", … - Big Noyd
Big Noyd (born TaJuan Perry on May 7, 1975) is a rapper from Queensbridge, New York City. He is closely affiliated with Mobb Deep, and he is featured on all of their first 7 albums. Big Noyd was first introduced with his verse on "Stomp 'Em Out" from Mobb Deep's 1993 debut "Juvenile Hell", but it was first in 1995, on Mobb Deep's album The Infamous that Big Noyd attracted wider attention. - Jack Thompson
John Bruce “Jack” Thompson is an American attorney and activist, based in Coral Gables, Florida. Thompson describes himself as a Christian conservative and a Republican. After an initial foray into politics, Thompson concentrated his legal efforts against obscenity, particularly in rap music and broadcasts by radio personality Howard Stern. More recently, he has focused on violence as well, … - Karrine Steffans
Karrine Steffans was born on August 24, 1978 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and is a former hip hop music video performer and actress. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Video Vixen , her 2005 memoir about her life in the commercial hip hop world, which was wildly popular for its graphic descriptions of her sexual liaisons with numerous celebrities. Confessions is currently [Oct. 2007] the all-time best selling book on AALBC.com - Scarface
Branden Terrell Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface (born November 9, 1970 in New Jersey) is an American rapper raised in the Sunny Side neighborhood of Houston, Texas. - Kool Savas
Kool Savas (formerly King Kool Savas (KKS), Juks or Jux is a German rapper of Turkish descent and one of Germany's most influencial hip hop artists. His real name is "Savaş Yurderi". Savaş is the turkish word for War. He is also the frontman of the Optik Army. - Terminator X X
Terminator X (born Norman Rogers, 25 august 1966) is best known as the producer DJ of the rap group Public Enemy, which he left in 1999. He has also produced two solo albums, "Terminator X & The Valley of Jeep Beets" (1991) and "Super Bad" (1994), featuring, among others, Chuck D, Sister Souljah, Kool DJ Herc, the Cold Crush Brothers, and a Bass music track by the Punk Barbarians. - Big Tuck
Cedric Tuck, mostly known by his rap or stage name Big Tuck, is an African-American rapper born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the Dallas rap group DSR (Dirty South Rydaz). He has released over 32 mixtapes and now is signed to Universal Records. - Battlecat
Battlecat or DJ Battlecat (real name Kevin Gilliam) is a rap music producer best known for producing Snoop Dogg and his affiliates (Kurupt, Tha Eastsidaz, Doggy's Angels, Xzibit), along with a number of other West Coast rappers. His aesthetic is a progression from the early-'90s G-funk sound pioneered by Dr. Dre, characterized by fat synth bass lines and soulful keys. Some of his productions - Snoop Dogg's "Stacey Adams", E-40's "Nah, … - Everlast
Everlast (born Erik Schrody, August 18, 1969 in Valley Stream, New York) is an Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter, best known for his hit "What It's Like", and for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music. He was the frontman for rap group House of Pain until 1996. In 2000, he won a Grammy (with Santana) for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, for the song "Put Your Lights On". - Wendy Day
Wendy Day (born 1962) is an American entrepreneur, writer and founder of Rap Coalition, the not-for-profit entity created to protect artists from exploitation in the music industry. The advocacy group arms rappers with the tools needed to succeed in the music industry, by way of free conferences and panels. Day has been instrumental in the development of several well known rap music stars and labels, including Do Or Die, Twista, Cash Money Records, C-Murder, … - Trina
Trina (Katrina Le’verne Taylor) is an American rapper. - Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah (b. 1980 in Sierra Leone) is the author of the memoir, "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier". In 1991, a vicious civil war overtook Sierra Leone. His parents and two brothers were killed; at the age of 13, he was pressed into service as a child soldier. He fought for almost three years before being rescued by UNICEF. In 1998, he fled from Freetown after the 1999 coup to New York City. He now calls his foster mother, Laura Simms, his mother. - Joe Tex
Joe Tex (born Joseph Arrington Jr., Baytown, Texas, 8 August, 1933 - died 13 August 1982, Navasota, Texas) was an American soul singer most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over music, which he called "rap," made him a predecessor of the modern style of music. - Lil Cuete
Lil Cuete is a Chicano rapper from Norwalk, California. He is currently colaborating with various other rap artists in the Los Angeles, California music scene. He is affiliated with the Varrio Norwalk Los One Ways gang street gang. Lil Cuete is currently contracted with Eastside Records. He has released four albums, one each year.He has a song in the lowrider 2005 tour which it is called You Know Your Special - Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was a German American songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones. Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the group's primary lyricist, penning songs such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach" and "Poison Heart". - Cj Mac
CJ Mac (born in the Slauson Avenue of South Central Los Angeles), is an African American rap artist. He released his debut album, "True Game", on Rap-A-Lot Records in 1995 as Mad CJ Mac. He was originally going to release the album through Ruthless Records. In 1999 CJ Mac released "Platinum Game" on Mack 10's Hoo-Bangin' Records. It featured Mack 10, WC, Too Short, and TQ. He insulted Dr. Dre on one of the album's interludes. - O.S.T.R.
Adam Ostrowski, better known as O.S.T.R., is one of the most renowned rappers in Poland. Famous for his freestyle rap skills, O.S.T.R. in his works touches on various topics, from joint smoking to current social and political matters. He has been working for the MTV channel, and right now he is finishing his studies. Having graduated music school playing the violin, O.S.T.R. is one of the few Polish rappers who have a basic musical education. - Tha Trademarc
Marc Predka (born April 21, 1975), better known by his stage name Tha Trademarc, is a rap music artist, best known as the cousin of WWE wrestler John Cena, where he was featured on Cena's hit album You Can't See Me. He was born just two days (and two years) before John Cena. - Jin
Jin Au-Yeung (jyutping: Au1joeng4 Zing6), also known as Jin, Jin tha MC, 100 Grand Jin and The Emcee is an American rapper born on June 4, 1982. - Mila J
Mila J. (Born Jamila Chilombo on November 18, 1983), is the latest R&B/Rap solo female artist to the TUG roster headed by Chris Stokes, creator of the groups B2K and Immature. - Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay is a former lecturer of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducted a summer workshop. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, … - City Spud
City Spud (born Lavell Webb) is a member of the rap music group St. Lunatics. He's featured on Nelly's hit single "Ride Wit Me." He is Nelly's half-brother, and is currently incarcerated. Since then Nelly and the St. Lunatics have campaigned for his release. They have titled their group album "Free City". City Spud was sentenced to ten years for first-degree assault and armed criminal action in 1999 and was sent to the Boonville Correctional Center. - Ronald Ray Howard
Ronald Ray Howard was an African American convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted of the shooting death of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Bill Davidson after Howard was stopped driving a stolen car on April 11, 1992. Davidson had stopped Howard on U.S. Highway 59 about 5 miles (8 km) south of Edna, Texas in a 1986 GMC Jimmy, as his vehicle had a broken headlight. - Kinfolk Thugs
Kinfolk Thugs is a rap group native of Memphis, Tennessee. Having been influenced by many of their city's rap artists like 8 Ball & MJG, Three 6 Mafia, Al Kapone, Playa Fly, Taylor Boyz, & Gangsta Pat, Kinfolk Thugs are known for their gritty depiction of the harsh ghetto life as well as their cockey yet laid back flow combined with a distanct southern gangsta style. Through this, they have risen to be amoung the top independent artists of the South. - Bally Sagoo
Bally Sagoo (born Baljit Singh Sagoo) is a British Asian Sikh musician and DJ who was born in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi, India but grew up in Birmingham, England, in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, influenced by disco, rap and Motown music. He gained success as a DJ in the club scene and broke into music by revamping old Bollywood hits and fusing them with hip hop. He is widely credited as one of the original pioneers of what is now modern Indian music, … - Litefoot
Litefoot (born on August 5, 1972; also goes by the name G. Paul Davis) is a Native American rapper and the founder of the Red Vinyl record label. - Cui Jian
Cui Jian is a Beijing-based musician, songwriter, trumpet player, guitarist and composer. Affectionately called "Old Cui", he is considered to be a pioneer in Chinese rock music and the first Chinese artist to break away from conventional Chinese popular forms and incorporate a Western rock style into his songs. For this distinction Cui Jian is labeled "The Father of Chinese Rock". In his later works, he has also begun to experiment with rap music, … - Yogi
Yogi (born Jeremy A. Graham) is an American music producer and member of Rap group CRU. He has been associated with Diddy and his Bad Boy label's releases since the 1990s, producing for Diddy himself and artists such as Black Rob, G-Dep, Loon & Shyne. He has also produced for non-Bad Boy artists including Busta Rhymes, Method Man & Kool G Rap. <br> <b> <br> - Kilo Ali
Kilo Ali (born 1972), also known as Kilo, is a rap music artist from Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Kilo recorded mainly bass music/miami bass tracks, but also hip hop tracks with a less distinctive southern flavour. On "Organized Bass", George Clinton, Cee-Lo from Goodie Mob, JT Money as well as Big Boi from OutKast appeared. Kilo Ali in the late 1990's(1996-1997) went to prison for insurance fraud. - Speckled Red
Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973) was born Rufus Perryman in Monroe, Louisiana. He was an American boogie woogie piano player and singer most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", legendary exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African-American folklore. - Tuan Le
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978 in Paris, France) is a professional poker player, known for his aggression and risk-taking. As a child, Le was raised in Kansas City, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street. He later attended Cal State-Northridge as a finance major. He began playing in the $20/$40 limit hold'em games at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, California, … - Doc Gynéco
Doc Gynéco is a popular French hip hop artist of Guadeloupean origin. His music is typically characterized as a ragga/rap style, that has found its fan base in France. Born in Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis, on July 7, 1974, Beausir's mother was antillais and his father white. The latter left them in 1990, and partly as a result of this, Beausir was poor growing up. - Slo'Down
Slo'Down born Corey Edwards on December 18th, Slo is a member of the rap music group St. Lunatics. He is best known because of his distinctive masks always worn on stage that usually cover half of his face (similar to the Phantom of the Opera) but some have included the classic "Hannibal Lecter" style mask. He is the "hype man" of the St. Lunatics. He does not rap though; he dances along with the songs and hypes up the crowd. - Osez
Osez was a member of the rap group Sens Unik from Switzerland between 1991 and 1995. He started out in 1988 as a dancer and joined the group on the "VIème Sens" album tour in 1991. He started to rap on the second album released in 1992, "Les Portes Du Temps", on the hit track "Hijo de Latino" and met many rappers and groups who appear on this album, like IAM and K-Mel from Alliance Ethnic. Sens Unik's third album, "Chromatic", went gold in both Switzerland and Sweden. - Trouble T Roy
Troy Dixon was an American dancer known as "Trouble T Roy", and a member of the hip-hop group Heavy D & The Boyz. Dixon died on July 15, 1990 when he fell twenty feet from a balcony after a concert in Indianapolis, Indiana, at 22 years of age. Dixon was immortalized in "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)", a 1992 song by rap duo Pete Rock and CL Smooth. - Ruben Dj
Ruben Urrutia (born circa 1960), better known in the Spanish rap music world as Ruben DJ, is a Puerto Rican former rap star who became famous in the late 1980s. Rap music in Puerto Rico was becoming popular in 1988, after a decade where various other types of popular music, such as pop, heavy metal, teen pop (as evidenced by Las Cheris, Los Chamos, Los Chicles, Los Chicos, Menudo and other teen groups of the time), … - Kana
Kana (real name: Marianna Alanen) (born 1979) is a Finnish female rap musician. She began her music career in the Finnish TV show "Popstars", a contest for new pop musicians. After the show had finished, Kana began a solo career. The name "Kana" means "chicken" in Finnish.
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