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American rappers of Jamaican descent

  • The Notorious B.I.G.Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st of May 1972. He grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood…
  • Afrika BambaataaLance Taylor grew up in the Bronx River Projects during the 1960s and 1970s. He was born on the 17th of April 1957 to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants.
  • DJ Kool HercClive Campbell was born on the 16th of April 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica. He grew up surrounded by sound systems at neighborhood dance halls where DJs known as…