Andre Harrell was a music executive whose Uptown Records, founded in 1986, defined the hip-hop and R&B fusion of the ...

Anthony Bodden is a filmmaker and marketing innovator best known for co-writing the cult hip-hop film Belly. As founder of ...

Ashanti, born Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas on October 13, 1980 in Glen Cove, New York, is an R&B singer who became ...

AZ, from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a revered lyricist who first gained fame with his guest verse on Nas's 'Life's a ...

Barron Claiborne is a Boston-bred photographer best known for shooting the iconic 1997 'King of New York' portrait of the ...

Benny Boom, born Benny Douglas on July 22, 1971, is a director known for shaping hip-hop's visual era through countless ...