Kweli facts
Given name Talib Kweli Greene
Born 1975, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
Talib Kweli's name is Arabic. It means the seeker or student of truth and knowledge. (i knew that)
Talib's father is a professor of sociology and his mother is a professor of English language.(explains why he is so smart)
Talib is the oldest of two boys
^^Sadly thats all the info on him
here is Snoop
His mother nicknamed him "Snoop" because of the way he looked.
Foot size: 10 in Converse All Stars, 11 in regular shoes and 12 in dress shoes
Common
Given name Lonnie Rashid Lynn
Born Chicago, Illinois 1971
On Like Water For Chocolate, Common's "A Song for Assata" is a biography of Joanna Chessimard (aka Assata Shakur), a wrongfully imprisoned Black Panther who mysteriously managed to break out of prison in 1979.
DMX
Given name Earl Simmons
Born December 18, 1970 -- Baltimore, Maryland
He took the name "DMX" from the DMX digital sound machine.
Eve
given name Eve Jihan Jeffers
Born 1979, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eve first began rapping in a high school rap group under the alias "Gangsta."
To make ends meet, she worked briefly as a go-go dancer.
She soon changed her alias to "Eve Of Destruction
L Boogie
Born: May 25 1975 - South Orange, New Jersey
Given Name: Lauryn Hill
She hooked up with Wyclef Jean and his cousin Pras Prakazrel Michel and formed a group. They called themselves the Tranzlator Crew.(glad they changed that name)
Nas (i know Sick ill cell will love this)
Born: September 14, 1973 Long Island, New York, USA
Given Name: Nasir Jones
His father is the acclaimed jazz musician Olu Dara, who collaborates with Nas to this day
Nas started rapping at the age of nine and shortly joined a crew called the Devastatin' Seven in the mid-80s.
Heads started referring to Nas as "Nasty" and it became his nickname
aight time 2 go work out
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