Curated category
Progressive rappers
- 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…
- Native TonguesThe Native Tongues took their name from a line in the song African Cry by Motown-offshoot funk group New Birth. That lyric reads took away our native tongues…
- Young ThugJeffery Lamar Williams was born on the 16th of August 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in the Jonesboro South projects near Cleveland Avenue as the…
- 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…
- OutkastAntwan Patton and André Benjamin met in 1992 at the Lenox Square shopping mall in Atlanta. Both teenagers were sixteen years old when they crossed paths…
- Queen LatifahDana Elaine Owens arrived in the world on the 18th of March 1970 within the city limits of Newark, New Jersey. Her childhood unfolded primarily in nearby…