Category: Hip Hop music

Armando Christian Perez, better known in the musical as Pitbull, is a singer of reggaeton, pop and hip hop was born in Miami on January 14, 1981. He grew up in Little Havana, Miami area known for its large population of Cubans.
During his career he has collaborated with musicians such as Lil Jon, who is considered a pioneer of ‘crunk’, a musical subgenre of hip hop. With Lil Jon collaborated on the album “Kings of Crunk ‘, 2002, and on the soundtrack of ’2 Fast 2 Furious’. (more…)

The Fugees are an American band hip-hop mainly, but also that fused soul, reggae and Caribbean rhythms. This group became popular in the mid-nineties.

Members of this group were Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel. The name The Fugees from the word “Refugee” as it were Haitian Wyclef and Pras, while that of South Hill New Jersey.

In 1994, the trio released their first LP “Blunted on Reality”, in which 2 songs placed in the circuit “underground” Americans. These issues were “Nappy Heads” (Mona Lisa) and “Vocab”. However, the album failed to achieve the success they expected.

Two years later, you receive one of their biggest hits, the album “The Score”. The album included versions of familiar songs like “No Woman No Cry” by Bob Marley , and “Killing Me Softly (With His Song)” by Roberta Flack, “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can not Hide From Love ) “from the Delfonics. Also in 1996, appears a compilation album entitled “Refugee Camp – Bootleg Versions”. (more…)

Veronica is the youngest of three brothers who get along very well together. His parents separated when she was 10 years and currently lives with his mother. It is the only music lover in the family. His father has been interested in this world as a teenager, but Veronica’s older brother, Octavio, who has dedicated himself to it more seriously, is a songwriter, and apparently given better than their own Veronica, as recognized herself.

David is also a musician, Veronica’s boyfriend, whom she describes as an excellent guitarist. Vero has studied aesthetics and hairdressing, as well as singing and dancing. They say the studies are not wrong and gave him, though a little confused, was very constant. No doubt that is a multifaceted woman: she has taught aerobics and go-go, has made animation and amateur theater … Also worked on shows in front of a post hippy and even for some time was devoted to designing tattoos. (more…)

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1979, and as a child he performed on the stages leading to the side of her aunt, soul singer Gladys Knight. Raised in Detroit, continues to cultivate his passion for music, releasing his debut album AGE IS NOT NOTHING BUT A NUMBER (1994). The collaboration with R.Kelly – which is even a short time the wife, the marriage is annulled, the youngest of the singer – the door to a worldwide success: the single “Back & Forth” and “At Your Best” collect indeed great acclaim. (more…)

Barisford Robert Brown was born February 5, 1969 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Known for her turbulent marriage to Whitney Houston, began his career as a member of the R & B band New Edition, with whom he made ​​several hit songs as “Candy Girl” “Cool it now” and “Mr. Telephone Man.” After the experience with the group in 1986, produces the same year his first solo album, KING OF STAGE, but it did not work out to be very lucky. (more…)

Sean Paul Henriques – real name Sean Paul – was born on January 8, 1973 in St. Andrew, Jamaica.
Initially has a brilliant sports career (in fact part of the national water polo), but the music remains his first love: it turns DJ and debuted with their first single – “Baby Girl” – in 1996. (more…)

The Neptunes – Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s former school in Virginia Beach – formed in 1992. Launched by producer Teddy Riley, the duo became within a few years one of the most popular production team in the United States. (more…)

Son of producer Sy Kravitz NBC, jew, Roxie Roker and actress, the black Bahams (Helen embodied in the famous TV series “The Jeffersons”), Lenny grew up without any kind of conditioning, passing his childhood in the luxurious Upper East Side of Manhattan but also in the seedy streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, eating sitting in the lap of jazz, Duke Ellington and classical music in Los Angeles, where a teenager, he sang with the prestigious California Boys Choir and the Metropolitan Opera and recorded, among others, with Zubin Mehta. (more…)

Lil ‘Kim was born on 11 June 1975 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

It grows on its own – sometimes on the road – after parental separation. His ability to rhyme, however, attracts the attention of Biggie Smalls (Notorious BIG), which helps her to pursue a career as a rapper. (more…)

Dwayne Michael Carter Junior was born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and spent the first years of his life in the Hollygrove neighborhood.

The first to notice his talent is Bryan Williams, founder of Cash Money Records: Dwayne has eleven years and, under the name of Lil’Wayne (Wayne Small), records his first freestyle in the study of the talent scouts. From here on, the story may seem like a movie plot: Williams decides to try to publish some of the rapper’s songs, which now takes 14 years, he abandoned his studies and became the father of little Reginae, had by his girlfriend, Antonia Johnson. The history between the two collapses quickly, but at the same time Wayne’s career began to take shape. In 1997 he founded the group Hot Boys with rappers Juvenile, BG and Turk in the same year they released their first album, GET IT HOW YOU LIVE. (more…)