- Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /'kɑn.je(ɪ)/) (born June 8 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper. He has released his debut album "The College Dropout", his second album "Late Registration", and is working on a third album coming out in 2007 called "Graduation". Both "The College Dropout" and "Late Registration" have received numerous awards. Kanye West also runs his own record label, GOOD Music. - John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. - Speech
Speech (born Todd Thomas on October 25, 1968) is a musician and member of the progressive hip hop group Arrested Development. In addition to his work with Arrested Development, Speech has released a number of solo albums. - Bow Wow
Shad Gregory Moss, better known as "Bow Wow" or formerly "Lil' Bow Wow" (born March 9 1987, Columbus, Ohio) is an American rapper, actor, and music producer. - Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri also known simply as JD (born Jermaine Dupri Mauldin on September 23 1972) is an American record producer and rapper. Dupri is notable as the youngest ever inductee to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 16 2006, introduced by Quincy Jones and Russell Simmons. - Big Boi
Big Boi is an American hip hop artist and producer; one half of the alternative hip-hop duo OutKast. He also goes by the aliases "Daddy Fat Sacks", "General Patton", "Sir Lucious L. Leftfoot", "Billy Ocean", "Hot Tub Tony" and "Francis the Savannah Chitlin' Pimp". - Lil Jon
Jonathan Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American hip-hop artist & producer. He is best known as a pioneer of the sub-genre of hip hop known as "crunk" (a combination of elements of Bounce Music, Southern hip hop and bass music). His group, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, which includes Big Sam and Lil Bo, is one of crunk's most notable acts. - Cee-Lo
Cee-Lo Green is the stage name of Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1974), an American hip hop, funk, soul, and R&B musician. He is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Goodie Mob and more recently Gnarls Barkley, and has also recorded two critically acclaimed solo LPs. Among Cee-Lo's solo hits are the singles "Closet Freak" (2002) and "I'll Be Around" (2003), produced by and featuring Timbaland. - Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin (born December 29 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and keyboardist. - Bobby Brown
Robert Berisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer. Brown began his career with the popular boy band New Edition in 1980 but was later ousted from the group due to behavioral problems. He embarked on a solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits. Brown is the ex-husband of R&B singer Whitney Houston and the star of his own reality show, "Being Bobby Brown" on Bravo. - Yung Joc
Yung Joc (born Jasiel A. Robinson on April 2 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper from College Park, Georgia. Yung Joc is also featured on the songs "Show Stopper" by Danity Kane (from Diddy's "Making The Band 3") & Cassie's album track "Call U Out". Despite the rumors, he is not related to rapper Young Jeezy. - Lil' Scrappy
Lil' Scrappy (born Darryl Kevin Richardson II on January 19, 1984 in North Trenton, New Jersey) is a rapper. - Danger Mouse
Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American artist and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he remixed "The Beatles" (more commonly known as "The White Album") and rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album" to create "The Grey Album". He has also produced "St. Elsewhere" by Gnarls Barkley and the second Gorillaz album, 2005's "Demon Days". - Killer Mike
Killer Mike (born Michael Render on April 20, 1975) is an African-American rapper, signed to Grind Time Official through the Selecto Hits imprint. He made his debut appearance on "Snappin' and Trappin'" on OutKast's 2000 LP "Stankonia", and also appeared on the Grammy winning song, "The Whole World", the single from OutKast's greatest hits album "Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast". - Pastor Troy
Pastor Troy (born Micah Levar Troy in College Park, Georgia on November 18, 1977) is a American rapper. His songs are notable for a mix of religious background and street lyrics. - Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American R&B/soul singer and actress. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest. - Keyshia Cole
Keyshia Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an American R&B singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice. She released her platinum selling debut album "The Way It Is" in 2005, and is preparing to release her second album "Just Like You" in 2007. - Young Dro
Young Dro (born D' Juan Hart in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1979) is an American rapper signed to T.I.'s label, Grand Hustle. - Bobby Valentino
Bobby Valentino (born Bobby Wilson on February 27, 1980) is an American R&B singer. He is only known as "Bobby V" in the United Kingdom due to a lawsuit. - Juvenile
Juvenile (born Terius Gray on March 25, 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) is an American rapper. At the age of 19, he began recording in a distinctive southern style with "Being Myself" (1994, Warlock Records). The album's hit song "Bounce for the Juvenile" gave name to the southern sing-songy rap style known as "bounce". In 1997, "Solja Rags", Juvenile's debut with Cash Money Records, was an underground hit. - Dem Franchize Boyz
Dem Franchize Boyz are an American hip hop group from Atlanta signed to So So Def Records. The group comprises four members: Gerald Tiller (a.k.a. Buddie, born 1983), Maurice Gleaton (a.k.a. Parlae, born 1983), Jamal Willingham (a.k.a. Pimpin, born 1984,) and Bernard Leverette (a.k.a. Jizzal Man, born 1983). They debuted with the poverty-stricken urban anthem "White Tee" and have more recently appreciated radio airplay with their singles "Oh, … - Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11 1977), better known as Ludacris, is an American rapper. A cousin of R&B singer Monica, Ludacris has received three Grammy Awards over the course of his career. He is the co-founder, along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. - Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland (born Kelendria Trene Rowland on February 11, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, and occasional actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time selling over 100 million records worldwide. - Trisha Yearwood
Trisha hated smoke. But after talking to her and placing it in the right spot She let me use it and it made a big difference. Trisha is one of my favorites. - Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967 in Severn, Maryland) is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress who was popular during the 1990s. She is famous for her husky alto vocal timbre. The RIAA named Braxton as one of the top selling artists of all time. - Black Boy
- Keith Sweat
Keith Crier (born July 22, 1961 in Harlem, New York), better known as Keith Sweat, is an American R&B/soul, singer-songwriter, record producer and a major contributor to the New jack swing era. Before becoming a recording artist, Sweat worked for the commodities market in the New York Mercantile Exchange. He sang at nightclubs throughout New York City until he was discovered and offered a recording contract with Elektra Records in 1987. - T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA), best known by the stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is an American Grammy Award-winning rapper, songwriter, actor, record and executive producer as well as the Co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records. According to the Grand Hustle website, T.I. has a clothing line, "AKOO" (A King Of Oneself), launching later in 2007. - Too $hort
Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28 1966) in South Central Los Angeles, known by stage name Too $hort, is a rapper who started his career as a youth at the age of 17 in Oakland, California. Through his music, Too $hort has cultivated a persona of a no-nonsense pimp, and is widely credited for popularizing pimp culture in hip hop, along with Ice T. - Brian Littrell
Brian Thomas Littrell (born February 20, 1975) is an American musician and member of the Backstreet Boys. - Sleepy Brown
Patrick "Sleepy" Brown is an R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is one-third of the successful Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for acts such as OutKast, Goodie Mob, and TLC. TLC's "Waterfalls", penned by Brown and Organized Noize's Rico Wade and Ray Murray, was a #1 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1995. Besides his production work, Brown also records as an artist himself, … - John Connolly
John Connolly (born October 21, 1968) was a drummer for the band Piece Dogs. He then joined Sevendust as a guitarist and has recorded with them on all their releases to date. - Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz stride pianist, composer, and arranger. She was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a very young child she taught herself to play the piano (her first public performance was at the age of six). She became a professional musician in her teens. In 1930, she joined Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, of which her first husband, … - Bruce Hampton
Bruce Hampton (born Gustov Berglund III in 1947) is a surrealist American musician and founding member of Atlanta, Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band in the late 1960s. Adopting the moniker "Colonel Bruce Hampton, Retired" and often playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands, including the Late Bronze Age, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Fiji Mariners, and his recent project known as Col. - Paris Bennett
Paris Ana'is Bennett (born August 21, 1988 is an American singer. She came to national recognition as a contestant on the fifth season of the reality television talent show, "American Idol", and was eliminated from the competition on May 3, 2006, finishing in fifth place. On May 8, 2007, Paris Bennett released her debut album "Princess P" on 306 Entertainment/TVT Records - André 3000
André 3000 (born André Lauren Benjamin on May 27, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American rapper, hip hop producer and actor. He is half of the successful hip hop duo OutKast. He is also the creator of Cartoon Network's "Class of 3000". - Khujo
Khujo is an American hip hop musician who was born on March 13, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is one-fourth of Goodie Mob (along with T-Mo, Cee-Lo, and Big Gipp), and one-half of The Lumberjacks (with T-Mo). Khujo is a very spiritual man known for his distinct, grunty voice and free-flowing rhyming style. He rhymes about all aspects of street life, often intertwining those subject with God metaphorically or directly. - Michelle Malone
Michelle Malone is an American roots rock and blues singer/songwriter and accomplished guitarist. She was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia by her mother and grandmother, both professional singers. Michelle first began performing at age 4 in the church choir, and later began saxophone, guitar, and drums, which she played in her first band at age 12. Malone began songwriting as a teen. - Usher
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American R&B/pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To date, he has sold approximately over 30 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards. Usher is also a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association franchise. He also has his own record label, US Records. - Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum (born 1970 in Ruston, Louisiana) is the founder and driving force behind the band Neutral Milk Hotel and one of the cofounders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Robert Schneider (of The Apples in Stereo), Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss (formerly of The Olivia Tremor Control and now comprising Circulatory System and The Sunshine Fix, respectively) and Mangum all attended the same high school in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s.
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