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Gary Rinaldo (born May 3, 1969), better known by the name Gary G-Wiz, is an American record producer and film score composer. Most known for being a member of the hip hop production team the Bomb Squad , G-Wiz is a longtime Public Enemy producer and contributed to many albums including: Apocalypse 91...
Dwight Arrington Myers [1] [2] (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), [3] known professionally as Heavy D, was an American rapper, record producer, and actor.Myers was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) and "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), as well as DJ and producer Eddie F (Edward Ferrell).
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), [2] better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove (2006).
[3] [4] [5] In 2020, XXL wrote that of 77 rapper deaths they examined, more than 40 remain unsolved, including the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G., and the 1999 murder of Big L. [6]
Markie was born in Manhattan in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York City, on April 8, 1964. [7] [8] He was raised on Long Island in the hamlet of Brentwood [6] [9] and the village of Patchogue, where he spent his teenage years and where, on September 25, 2021, the intersection of South Street and West Avenue, across the street from his then-home, was dedicated as Biz Markie Way. [2]
Quavious Keyate Marshall [1] (born April 2, 1991), better known by his stage name Quavo (/ ˈ k w eɪ v oʊ /), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known as the frontman of the now-defunct hip hop group Migos.
City of Lies is a 2018 crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. [2] It is directed by Brad Furman, with a screenplay by Christian Contreras based on the non-fiction book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan.
Jay Wayne Jenkins (born September 28, 1977), known by his stage name Jeezy (or Young Jeezy), is an American rapper.He is credited, alongside fellow Georgia-based rappers T.I. and Gucci Mane, with pioneering the hip hop subgenre trap music for mainstream audiences.