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Jive Records artists

  • A Tribe Called QuestIn the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York City, Kamaal Fareed and Malik Taylor grew up as childhood friends before they ever stepped into a…
  • AaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton was born on the 16th of January 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved to Detroit when she was five years old.
  • Will SmithWillard Carroll Smith II arrived in the world on the 25th of September 1968. He grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia with his mother…
  • Boogie Down ProductionsThe year 1986 marked the birth of Boogie Down Productions in the South Bronx. KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock formed the core of this new hip-hop group.
  • Shaquille O'NealShaquille Rashaun O'Neal entered the world on the 6th of March 1972, in Newark, New Jersey. His biological father was Joe Toney, a high school basketball…