by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 7, 2022 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock are from Harlem, New York. Base was born Robert Ginyard, and DJ E-Z Rock was born Rodney “Skip” Bryce. Coincidentally, they were both born on May 18, 1967, and met in 1977 in the fifth grade, in the same class in a Harlem Public School. Base...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 7, 2022 | African American History, People
Rapper Huey was born Lawrence Franks Jr. on September 12, 1987, in Kinloch, Missouri, to Lawrence Franks. There is very little information available regarding his mother. However, he grew up in the Walnut Park neighborhood of St. Louis. He is the youngest of four...
by StanleyFreeman | Feb 7, 2022 | African American History, People
Nicholaus Joseph Williams is a Trinidadian-American rapper best known as Trinidad James. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad James’ family moved multiple times to Canada, then Florida, then the Bronx and then settled in Atlanta. Moving so often...
by FikesRobert | Feb 7, 2022 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Three Six Mafia is a hip hop group from Memphis, Tennessee that includes members Paul Duane “DJ Paul” Beauregard, Jordan Michael “Juicy J” Houston III, Lola Chantrelle “Gangsta Boo” Mitchell, Darnell “Crunchy Black” Carlton, Ricky “Lord Infamous” Dunigan, and Robert...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 7, 2022 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
American Multi-Platinum hip-hop duo 95 South is from Jacksonville, Florida. It was formed in 1993 as a Miami bass group with Artice “AB” Bartley, Carlos “Daddy Black” Spencer, and Jay “Ski” McGowan and named after Interstate 95, which travels through Jacksonville....
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