Busta Rhymes is a rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George ""Buster"" Rhymes. Early in his career, he was known for his wild style and fashion, and today is best known for his intricate rapping technique, which involves rapping at a fast rate with lots of internal... read full bio
CeeLo Green is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter-producer, television personality, actor, entrepreneur, pop culture and fashion icon. CeeLo Green has appeared as a coach on NBCs hit show The Voice. Early on in Cee Los musical career he was part of a band called Goodie Mob. He sang vocals on a ban called Outkasts debut album entitled Southerplayalisticdillacmuzik, and he... read full bio
B.o.B. is an American rapper and has a signed venture with Grand Hustle Records, Rebel Rock Entertainment, and Atlantic Records. B.o.B. is also a singer-songwriter and record producer. He is known for his autobiographical tales about his early struggles and the lessons of success over tightly arranged melodic tracks. His debut single “Nothin' on You” reached number one in both... read full bio
Big Boi is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and record producer who has appeared on tracks by Missy Elliott, Trick Daddy, Jay-Z, Killer Mike, Beyoncé, Brooke Valentine, Sleepy Brown, and Fantasia. He is most popular as a member of the hip-hop group Outkast, alongside Andre 3000. Outkast has released six critically acclaimed and commercially successful studio albums, as well as... read full bio
Simply put, Matthew James Colwell is the most successful solo act in Australian hip-hop history. 360 has created four platinum singles alongside four albums, six solo mixtapes, one EP, and one collaboration mixtape with PEZ as their partnership Forthwrite. "Boys like You" is the most commercially successful Oz hip-hop music at the moment, having received a fourfold platinum certification. Recognized for his... read full bio
Australian female rapper Iggy Azalea rose to stardom with her debut album, The New Classic. It emerged on the top five of many charts worldwide and made Iggy Azalea the first non-American female rapper to reach the top of the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. With the album's international hit “Fancy”, Iggy Azalea made history as only the fourth female rapper... read full bio
Ty Dolla Sign is a hip hop singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who gained popularity for writing and appearing on YG’s track “Toot It and Boot It”. He has toured with renowned artists, such as Wiz Khalifa, A$SAP Rocky, The Weeknd, and Fifth Harmony. He is known for the songs “Paranoid”, which emerged on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was... read full bio
DJ Mustard is widely known for his frequent collaborations with rapper YG, as well as the many singles he has produced for hip hop and R&B artists since his rise among mainstream music. His production style is up-tempo, radio-friendly, club-oriented, catchy hip-hop. This style has soared into the contemporary production style of West Coast hip hop, which Mustard has coined... read full bio
Labrinth is most recognized for his work with some of the biggest names in music, including Tinie Tempah and Devlin on "Pass Out," Kygo and Kygo on "Fragile," Mike Posner and The Weeknd on "Silence," The Weeknd and The Weeknd on "Losers," and Noah Cyrus and The Weeknd on "Make Me (Cry)". The song "Pass Out" hit number one in... read full bio
Willy William is a DJ, music producer and singer with a unique, collaborative musical style. He is part of the French music collective called Collective Metisse, and his major dancefloor hits include “Tragedie” and “B Boyz Shake da Body.” Other popular singles by Willy include “Playground,” “Hula Hoop,” “Le demoiselle,” and “Le Bordel,” along with an EP called Es tu... read full bio
Swae Lee is one-half of the hottest hip-hop duo of this era- Rae Sremmurd. Their first album, Sremmlife, came to sell over one million copies in the US and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The duo released their second album not long after, and it contained one of their most well known singles, “Black Beatles,” which rose to the... read full bio
Steven Ellison, who is known as Flying Lotus, is an electronic music producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper from Los Angeles. He has released five albums, ‘1983’, ‘Cosmogramma’, ‘Until the Quiet Comes’ and ‘You’re Dead!’; all have received critical acclaim. Flying Lotus has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network’s ‘Adult Swim’ program. Madlib, MF DOOM, his aunt Alice... read full bio
Monica Brown, known as Monica, is a singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Born and raised in Georgia, Monica joined a traveling gospel choir at age ten. After releasing her debut album ‘Miss Thang’, it achieved multiplatinum status, with singles ‘Don’t Take It Personal’ and ‘Before You Walk Out of My Life’, topping charts on Billboard Top R&B Singles. Her second... read full bio
Questlove is a multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, and producer. He is best known as the drummer for The Roots. With an extensive background in arts beginning at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts through the Settlement Music School, Questlove has been a music connoisseur for his entire life. With most prominent work in The Roots band,... read full bio
Brian Imanuel (also known as Rich Brian) is a singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He initially rose to fame upon releasing the single “Dat $tick”. The single was certified Gold soon after its release. Imanuel started his music career after feeling inspired by rappers like Macklemore, Drake, 2 Chainz, and Kanye West. His first try at a rap song... read full bio
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is a hip-hop group comprised of several artists who go by the names Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, and Bizzy Bone. The group got together in Cleveland, Ohio where they developed their own unique rap style. Best known for their fast-paced rapping and vocal harmonies, the group was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Performance. They... read full bio
Chilly Gonzales is a man of many talents. A composer, singer, pianist, rapper, producer, songwriter, and actor, Gonzales is best known for his classical piano compositions and MC and electronic albums. Beginning at age three, Gonzales began playing the piano. Classically training at the McGill University, he started composing and performing, a jazz virtuoso. To further his career, Gonzales decided... read full bio
Lo Down Loretta Brown is another side of Erykah Badu that you don’t usually see. Badu uses her alter ego Lo Down Loretta Brown as a side project to DJ. It’s been said that her DJ sets are evocative and a completely different experience from her usual sets. Badu got her DJ name from a name of a character in... read full bio
Orelsan is a rapper, songwriter, producer, and director. Listeners have compared him to Eminem, however, Orelsan raps in French. Apart from a solo career, Orelsan is part of the French hip-hop duo Casseurs Flowters. He has released a total of three studio albums as a solo artist, and two with his partner in the duo, Casseurs Flowters. Orelsan gained prominence... read full bio
Sheck Wes is an up-and-coming rapper from Harlem, New York. Wes is best known for his single ‘Mo Bamba’. Wes grew up playing basketball and through that gained a close relationship with Mo Bamba, a basketball player that will soon play for the NBA. Wes scored a record deal under Travis Scott’s Cactus Jack Records and Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music, which... read full bio
