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Pop rap (or hip-pop) is hip hop with a pop music influence. The style became popular in the early 1990s, as hip hop music found commercial success. Pop rappers were more radio-friendly than artists in other hip hop genres. It was not uncommon for the songs to have raunchy subject matter, but on...
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Articolo 31
Articolo 31 is a popular band in Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms. They are one of the most popular Italian rock/hip hop groups.
Members are the rapper J.Ax (real name Alessandro Aleotti), and DJ Jad ...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in...
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- Jan 8, 1967 (age 43 years)
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OutKast
OutKast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia. They were originally known as The OKB (The OutKast Brothers) but later changed the group's name to OutKast. The group's original musical style was a...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (November 4, 1969), known by his stage name Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer. He won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line...
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- Nov 4, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been...
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- Sep 25, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American Grammy Award-winning rapper. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
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- Sep 27, 1982 (age 27 years)
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Nelly
Cornell Haynes, Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is a rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He has performed with the rap group St. Lunatics since 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal,...
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- Nov 2, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B; girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas (abbr. BEP) is a hip hop band that formed in Los Angeles in 1995. The group is composed of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist will.i.am and vocalists apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Since their album Elephunk in 2003, the group's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from Queens, New York, that came onto the music scene in 1985.
The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt", now Cheryl Wray), Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper ...
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The Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls (abbreviated to PCD) are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque troupe based in Los Angeles, California. After attracting national attention, Antin eventually...
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- 2004
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith (The Fresh Prince), met Jeff Townes (DJ Jazzy Jeff) while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop...
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- 1986
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1993
Arashi
Arashi (嵐, literally Storm) is a Japanese boy band formed under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which announced the formation of the group on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
After releasing one studio album, one greatest hits...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Die Fantastischen Vier
Die Fantastischen Vier (German pronunciation: [di fanˈtastɪʃən ˈfiːɐ̯]), also known as Fanta 4, is a German hip hop group from Stuttgart, Germany. The members are Michael Bernd Schmidt alias Smudo, Andreas Rieke alias And.Ypsilon, Thomas Dürr alias...
Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's...
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- Jun 8, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Fettes Brot
Fettes Brot (German pronunciation: [ˌfɛtəs ˈbʀoːt]) is a German hip hop group founded in 1992.
Fettes Brot is German for fat bread. "Fett" is a German slang term for "excellent". The band took the name from a fan who called them "Fettes Brot" after...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Chingy
Howard Bailey, Jr. (born March 10, 1980), better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American rapper.
Chingy grew up in the Walnut Park section of St. Louis, a neighborhood he's referred to as the "Bad Blocks." The middle child with two older...
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- Mar 10, 1980 (age 29 years)
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Vanness Wu
Vanness Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴建豪; traditional Chinese: 吳建豪; pinyin: Wú Jiànháo) is a Taiwanese American actor, singer, director, producer based in Asia. He was born on August 7, 1978, in Santa Monica, United States, and speaks fluent English and...
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- Aug 7, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Goldie Lookin Chain
Goldie Lookin Chain is a Comedic Rap music group based in Newport, Wales. The group produces humorous, controversial and often explicit songs that satirise hip hop, today's consumer society, the chav culture and life in Newport and southern Wales in...
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Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri Maulidin (born September 23, 1972) better known simply as Jermaine Dupri or J.D., is an American record producer, rapper and Grammy-winning songwriter.
Dupri discovered the child rap duo Kris Kross in 1991 at a mall in Atlanta,...
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- Sep 23, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Tila Tequila
Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981), better known by her stage name Tila Tequila, is a Singapore-born singer, model, and television personality. She is known for her appearances in Stuff, Maxim, Penthouse, her role as host of the Fuse TV show Pants...
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- Oct 24, 1981 (age 28 years)
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M-flo
m-flo (エムフロウ, Emu Furō) is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of producer and DJ Taku Takahashi and emcee Verbal. Former member Lisa left the group in 2002 to pursue a solo career.
As of 2008, the group have released five studio albums, all of...
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- 1998
Paul Wall
Paul Slayton (born March 11, 1981), better known by his stage name Paul Wall or "The People's Champ" is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records, having released several albums under the label as well as collaborating...
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- Mar 11, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Hadag Nahash
Hadag Nahash (Hebrew: הדג נחש) is an Israeli hip hop-funk group, known for its leftist political statements in many of its songs.
The group has released five albums to date. It has seven members; its lead singer and founder is Sha'anan Streett.
The...
Jentina
Jentina Rose Chapman, professionally known as Jentina, is a British R&B; singer, rapper, songwriter and model of Gypsy descent.
Jentina Chapman was born in a caravan in Woking. She grew up in West Molesey, Surrey, with her 13 brothers and sisters....
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- 1984 (age 26 years)
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Five
Five (formerly styled 5ive) was a British 5-member pop group/boy band put together in 1997 by the same team that formed the Spice Girls. Signed by Simon Cowell, they enjoyed fair success worldwide, but particularly in the UK, parts of Europe, Russia...
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- 1998
Carl Thomas
Carl Thomas (born June 15, 1970) is an American R&B; singer. He attended Aurora East High School. Although Thomas was originally part of The Formula , he is best known as an artist on Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment record label. His...
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- Jun 15, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Chamillionaire
Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is a Grammy Award winning American rapper and singer and CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment and a founder and original member of The Color Changin' Click, He began...
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- Nov 28, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Sabrina Setlur
Sabrina Setlur (born January 10, 1974), formerly known as Schwester S., is a German rapper, songwriter, Hebbar Iyengar and occasional actress. Her debut was in 1995 under the guidance of 3p Records executive and mentor Moses Pelham, producer of her...
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- Jan 10, 1974 (age 36 years)
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Kyjuan
Kyjuan is a founding member of the platinum selling rap group the St. Lunatics. Keeping it in the family, Kyjuan brought younger brother Murphy Lee on board to become a "Lunatic". As of yet, Kyjuan has not released a solo album, but has released two...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
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Swizz Beatz
Kasseem Dean (born August 30 , 1978 in Bronx, New York) better known by his stage name, Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer and rapper. Grady Spivey and rapper Cassidy helped launch his label Full Surface Records.
With his aunt Chivon Dean,...
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- Aug 30, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Christopher Stewart
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart (born January 4, 1974) is an American songwriter, music producer, music publisher, executive producer, recording industry executive and recording studio owner. In a career spanning 16 years, Stewart, at the helm of his...
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- Jan 4, 1974 (age 36 years)
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LeToya Luckett
LeToya Nicole Luckett (born March 11, 1981), known professionally as LeToya, is an American R&B; singer-songwriter and actress. She was a founding member of the R&B; female group Destiny's Child, with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many...
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- Mar 11, 1981 (age 28 years)
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City Spud
Lavell Webb (born August 31, 1975) known by his stage name City Spud, is a member of the rap music group St. Lunatics.
He's featured on Nelly's hit single "Ride Wit Me." He is Nelly's half-brother, and in 2000 was sentenced to 10 years imprisomnent...
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- Aug 31, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Epik High
Epik High (Hangul: 에픽하이) is a South Korean indie hip hop group from Seoul, South Korea. The group is composed of Tablo, Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz. The group went on hiatus in 2009 as a result of DJ Tukutz being called for mandatory military service....
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Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American recording artist and actor. He made his recording debut in late 2005 with the self-titled album Chris Brown at the age of 16. The album featured the hit single "Run It!", which...
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- May 5, 1989 (age 20 years)
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D4L
D4L was an American rap group. They were composed of Fabo, Mook-B, Stoney and Shawty Lo. They are best known for their "Laffy Taffy," which reached number-one in the U.S. in 2006.
Rapper Shawty Lo (born Carlos Walker) self-funded the group in its...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2003
T-Pain
Faheem Rasheed Najm (born June 30, 1985), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American hip hop and R&B; singer-songwriter, rapper and producer. He began his career as a rapper in the group Nappy Headz. In 2005, he became a singer and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 30, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Lil Boosie
Torrence Hatch (born November 14, 1983) known by his stage name Lil Boosie, is an American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Hatch grew up in a poor neighborhood of Baton Rouge, and his father was absent from his childhood. He played basketball...
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- Nov 14, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Fly to the Sky
Fly to the Sky (Korean: 플라이 투 더 스카이) is a South Korean R&B; duo, consisting of Korean American Brian Joo and South Korean native Hwanhee.
Initially marketed as a duo that can sing, rap, and dance, their early works featured bubblegum pop and upbeat...
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Ali
Ali (born Ali Jones on July 13, 1971) is an American Hip-Hop artist. He is responsible for forming the St. Louis rap group known as the St. Lunatics, which also include Kyjuan, Murphy Lee, Nelly, and Nelly's then-incarcerated brother, City Spud.
Ali...
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- Jul 13, 1972 (age 37 years)
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TRAX
TRAX (also known as The TRAX) is a South Korean rock band formed in the summer of 2004 by SM Entertainment and formerly produced by X Japan's co-founder Yoshiki. The name "TRAX" stands for "recording tracks," but also stands for the first letter of...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jul 2004
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
The EAV (Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung, German for "First Public/General Uncertainty/Un-Insurance") is an Austrian band that got together in 1977. They initially faced legal difficulty in Austria due to the (obviously intended) similarity of their...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Yung Joc
Jasiel Robinson (born April 2, 1983), better known by his stage name Yung Joc is an American rapper.
Robinson's father ran a hair-care products company and helped him write a jingle for Revlon; Robinson founded his own label, Mastermind, to release...
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- Apr 2, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Fat Joe
Joseph Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper signed to Imperial Records, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad.
Fat Joe's first album was...
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- Aug 19, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Mase
Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1975), better known by stage name Mase (often typset as Ma$e), previously known as Murda Ma$e, is an American rapper, songwriter, television personality and inspirational speaker. He was an artist on Sean "Diddy"...
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- Aug 27, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Rico Love
Richard Butler, Jr. (born December 3, 1982) as Rico Love is an American rapper/singer, songwriter, and producer.
Rico was born in New Orleans, but when his parents divorced he split his time between Milwaukee and Harlem. Later on he went to college...
Date of birth:
- 1982 (age 28 years)
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Rade Vrčakovski
Rade Vrčakovski (Macedonian: Раде Врчаковски, [ˈraːdɛ vrˈtʃakɔfski] (help·info)) (born November 17, 1980) better known by his stage name Vrčak (Врчак) is a Macedonian pop-rap performer and songwriter.
He represented Macedonia at the Eurovision Song...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1980 (age 29 years)
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Tate Musso (born July 9, 1991) is an American teen actor and musician. Musso is perhaps best known for his role as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana and Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and...
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- Jul 9, 1991 (age 18 years)
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Bless
Bless (born February 10, 1983, as Ben Rinehart) is a hip-hop artist from Montreal, Canada.
Bless was a B-boy at the young age of eight showing his deep hip hop roots. He quickly started to write rhymes and by the age of 12 he was demoing tracks in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1983 (age 26 years)
Akon
Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam, better known by his middle and stage name Akon (pronounced /ˈeɪkɒn/), is a Senegalese-American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, businessman, and philanthropist. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release...
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- Oct 14, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Baby Huey
Lawrence Franks, Jr. (born September 12, 1988), better known by his stage name Huey is an American rapper from St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently signed to Jive Records. "Pop, Lock & Drop It" is his debut single from the album Notebook Paper.
Huey...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1988 (age 21 years)
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ROM-4
ROM-4 is a four-member J-pop group that consists of Masaki Kaji, Masataka Kubota, Ryo Kimura, and Gouta Watabe.
The rap group "ROM-4" was formed for the Japanese television drama, Seishun Energy: Check It Out, Yo! in Tokyo (青春★ENERGY ~ チェケラッチョ!! In...
Avery Storm
Avery Storm is an American R&B; singer from New Jersey, USA, currently living in New York City. He has appeared on tracks released by Nelly, Paul Wall, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee. He is Caucasian, a relative rarity among American R&B; singers, and...
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Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born June 30, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress who is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls.
Previously, Scherzinger was part of reality TV girlgroup Eden's...
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- Jun 29, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Simone Cristicchi
Simone Cristicchi (born February 5, 1977 in Rome) is an Italian singer and composer.
In march 2007, Simone won the 57th edition of the Sanremo music festival. His song "Ti regalerò una rosa" won due to extremley high marks received from the festival...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1977 (age 32 years)
Unk
Anthony Platt (born November 28, 1981), commonly known as Unk, is a DJ/rapper. He began spinning records in 1998. After meeting DJ Jelly and DJ Montay, he joined their DJ entourage, the Southern Style DJs. They performed for high school parties,...
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- Nov 26, 1982 (age 27 years)
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MC Romeo
Marvin Dawkins (born October 23, 1980, Battersea, London), better known by his stage name MC Romeo is a British MC/Artist.
He first found fame in the garage group So Solid Crew. He subsequently had a solo career, firstly with the single "Romeo Dunn"...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1980 (age 29 years)
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Dion
Dion Jenkins is a singer, songwriter, and protege of producer Hi-Tek. He currently has Hi-Tek, Dr. Dre, Focus and Mike City working on his debut album. Dion has signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label. A due date for Dion's solo debut has yet to be...
Fabo
Lefabian Williams (born 1983) better known by his stage name Fabo is an American rapper, producer and the frontman of the rap group D4L. He is currently signed to Mike Jones' Ice Age Entertainment with D4L, and has recently gone solo.
Date of birth:
- 1983 (age 27 years)
