Curated category
Pop rappers
- FabolousJohn David Jackson stood before the microphone on the 18th of November 1977. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Breevort Houses within Bedford-Stuyvesant.
- Kanye WestKanye Omari West was born on the 8th of June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved with his mother to…
- Drake (musician)Aubrey Drake Graham was born on the 24th of October 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Dennis Graham, is an African-American drummer from Memphis…
- TimbalandIn 1986, a fourteen-year-old Timothy Zachery Mosley sat in the parking lot of a Red Lobster restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia.
- Lil WayneDwayne Michael Carter Jr. arrived in the world on the 27th of September 1982 within the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans.
- 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…
- MC HammerStanley Kirk Burrell grew up in a three-bedroom housing project apartment in East Oakland, California. He was born on the 30th of March 1962, into a family…
- Missy ElliottMelissa Arnette Elliott was born on the 1st of July 1971, at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. Her family lived in a manufactured home…
- Sean CombsSean John Combs was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Harlem, New York City. His father Melvin Earl Combs worked at a hair salon and served in the U.S.
- LL Cool JJames Todd Smith was born on the 14th of January 1968 in Bay Shore, New York. His childhood home became a crime scene when his father shot his mother and…
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert arrived in the world on the 1st of March 1987. Her mother Pebe Sebert struggled to raise her and older brother Lagan on welfare payments…