Reflective. gifted. composer of songs. The Atlanta musician Deante’ Hitchcock, who is nominated for a Grammy, may be summed up in these few words. Deante’ felt that rap was his only choice after leaving Georgia Southern University, so he put in more effort than ever to release mixtapes and videos that generated a lot of …
Kanye West first gained recognition in the music business by producing well-known musicians. His 2004 debut album, College Dropout, demonstrated his skills as a rapper, and albums like Late Registration (2005), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), Yeezus (2013), and Ye (2018) solidified his position as the industry’s top hip-hop artist. A nearly two-decade Grammy …
Hip-hop veteran Juvenile from New Orleans, who grew up in the Hot Boys group with legendary rapper Lil Wayne, is also a chart-topper from the South, having ascended the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with his 2004 hit “Slow Motion.” Juvenile, real name Terius Gray, was among the pioneers of the early 1990s “bounce” movement in …
Rough but smooth male vocal quartet Jagged Edge formed in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of identical twin brothers Brandon “Case Dinero” Casey and Brian “Brasco” Casey, who had moved from their native Hartford, Connecticut; Kyle Norman (aka “Quick”), whom they’d met through church activities, and Richard Wingo (aka “Wingo Dollar”), a late addition to the group …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVxqNjjg9gAshanti became an almost unstoppable pop-R&B powerhouse in 2002. She was primarily known for her longing love songs and melodies, but she was also capable of delivering agonizing cinematic ballads with her silky, sweet, meringue-like voice. The singer-songwriter became just the second artist to have three consecutive charting singles concurrently land in the Top Ten …
Before she could utilize her talents for her own solo endeavors, R&B singer, vocal arranger, and songwriter Keri Hilson wrote a slew of songs, many of them chart-toppers, for several popular artists in the mid-2000s as part of the five-person production/songwriting team known as the Clutch. The dynamic songwriter was born in Decatur, GA, only …
Scarface quickly became the South’s most admired rapper and remained so throughout the ’90s after breaking away from the Geto Boys to launch his solo career in 1991. Even if he never scored any national hits or stormed up the charts with any of his numerous albums throughout the ’90s, no one could question his …
Jeezy, a pioneer of trap music known for his acerbic and exuberant rhymes with a distinct streetwise viewpoint, came out of the Atlanta underground as a member of Boyz N da Hood. Just one month after the group’s self-titled album for Bad Boy demolished the Top Ten of the Billboard 200, the rapper almost reached …
Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 18, 1977, John David Jackson, best known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper, actor, and designer who is signed to Def Jam Records and is nominated for a Grammy award. After releasing his first album, Ghetto Fabolous, in 2001, he went on to release three …
One of the most important rappers working today is Terrence LeVarr Thornton, better known by his stage name Pusha T.
