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Ice Cube made an impressive return with the first-week sales debut of his new album, “Laugh Now, Cry Later,” which was independently released on June 6, through his own Lench Mob Records. Cube’s first solo effort in 6 years, “Laugh Now, Cry Later” debuted in this weeks Top 200 sales chart at #4, and Hip Hop/R & B charts at #2, selling 145,000 units in its first week – one of the highest first-week sales totals of any independent hip-hop artist release.

When Jadakiss hit the rap scene with his deafening group, the LOX, all hell broke loose. Why, you may ask, well, primarily because there had never been a hip-hip group in history who revolutionized the sound of hip-hop music as fast as they did. ?They? Are the only group who knew how to precisely give you lyrical food for your mind while simultaneously making thongs shake and drop (check out the meteoric rise of their platinum Money, Power & Respect for evidence). Plus, they redrew the rap map and became an influential force in the musical genre. Now, as one of the toughest and tightest emcees to ever grip the mic, Jadakiss, the LOXs? front man, is on the move to jump-start his solo career with his unprecedented album ?Kiss Tha Game Goodbye? which, due to its brilliance, is destined to go down in history books.

AT millennium's end, the hottest rapper in pop music is Jay-Z. Since the release of his quadruple-platinum Vol. II … Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z has had an incredible string of urban radio hits: "Can I Get a …," "Hard Knock Life," "Jigga What, Jigga Who," "Money, Cash" … the list goes on and on. And unlike many of today's most popular rap artists, he built an extensive catalog of hits before making his mark on the charts and enjoys underground respectability as well as mainstream acceptance.

No other rapper has been able to carve such a distinct niche in hip hop's diverse and expansive history as Snoop Dogg. His flow is like a Southern breeze on a lazy Sunday afternoon - soothing in its feel, sturdy in its power. We've all witnessed the curly-headed, lyrical phenomenon from 21st Street in Long Beach evolve and fortify into a grown man, now just as concerned with his business as he is with his lyrics - his game as healthy and expanding as his straightened head of hair.

DJ Quik (born David Martin Blake on January 18, 1970) is a West Coast rapper and record producer from Compton, California. He was raised on West Spruce Street in Compton. In September 2005, DJ Quik released his first independent album on his own new label, Mad Science. Over the years, Quik has had a variety of music from gangsta rap to R&B, but every production has had a signature touch

Truth is, ever since he debuted on the Friday soundtrack in 1995, Mack 10 has been the focus of the hip-hop nation. Each one of his albums -- Mack 10 (1995), Based On A True Story (1997), The Recipe (1998), The Paper Route (2000), Bang Or Ball (2001) -- has gone gold and has served as a snapshot of West Coast rap. Mack 10's ability to infuse his gritty lyrics with wit, insight and realism makes him one of the best hard-core rappers the genre has ever seen.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in Kansas city, Missouri on October 17 1973 to his mother Debbie Briggs-Mathers and his father Marshall Bruce Mathers II. Debbie was only 15 when Marshall was born. Not long after Marshall was born, his father packed his bags and left the family, never to be seen again. This wasn’t the end of a tough run for Marshall and his family; it was only just the beginning. Marshall got moved around to different houses and because of this he attended many schools. His mom finally settled down in a house in Detroit. Marshall was only 12 years old. The maximum time he spent at the one school was 3 months. He got bullied at every school he attended and later got back at them by dissing them publicly in his songs.

Dre (Andre Young) was born in February 18, 1965, Los Angeles, California.
He was raised in Compton, and got his nickname by adoring basketball superstar, Dr. J. His step-brother is Warren G. His brother got killed in a fight while Dre was on tour with N.W.A "My brother was my best friend. He was three years younger than me." Dre tells of being on the road when he received a phone call with the bad news. "You never forget that."
He started off as a D.J for parties as a teenager, and soon earned himself a spot in the "Eve After Dark" club, where he would play keyboards and sing.

I represent the Yay Area," raps the Yay (Bay) Area's E-40 in his typical lyrically innovative style on "Rapper's Ball" (featuring Too Short & jodeci's K-Ci), the first hit single off the popular Vallejo rapper's greatly anticipated new album, Tha Hall Of Game. The collection never once disappoints with its sixteen tracks packed, or rather, sprinkled with Forty Wata's (A.K.A. E-40's) addictively fresh, ever-evolving lyrical flow plus a talent-studded cast of guest rappers and producers, including 2pac, Too Short, The Luniz, Suga T., Ant Banks, B-Legit and Tonecapone.

Scarface quickly became the South's most admired rapper and remained so throughout the '90s after breaking away from the Geto Boys to launch his solo career in 1991. Even if he never scored any national hits or stormed up the Billboard charts with any of his numerous albums throughout the '90s, no one could question his clout throughout the South. He essentially defined what it meant to be a Southern thug rapper years before anyone even coined the term Dirty South. This became glaringly evident in the late '90s when a massive wave of young MCs arose from Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis emulating his style of hard-boiled, ghetto-bred, straight-up hardcore rapping. Besides serving as the father of Southern thug rap, it seemed as if every hardcore rapper wanted to align himself with Scarface during the '90s -- everyone from Ice Cube and Dr. Dre to 2Pac and Master P collaborated with the former Geto Boy -- all in an attempt to foster credibility among the loyal Southern rap audience.

Personal Profile:

Name: Tupac Amaru Shakur (born as Lesane Parish Crooks)

Date of Birth: 6-16-1971 - Brooklyn, NY

Date of Death: 9-13-1996 - Las Vegas, NV

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 168 lbs

Marital status: Separated (once maried to Keisha Morris), engaged with Kidda Jones

Occupation: Rapper & Actor

Mother: Alice Fay Walker aka Afeni Shakur

Father: William Garland

Aliases: MC New York, 2Pac, Makaveli

Music Groups: One Nation Emcees, Two From The Crew, Strictly Dope, Digital Underground, Thug Life, Outlaw Immortalz/Outlawz

Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York, New York on June 16, 1971 and died from fatal gun shot wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 13, 1996. Not only famous for his music, he was also a well respected actor with several films.

2Pac was a deep, multi-faceted individual. 2Pac's lyrics always went deep into the meaning of many political and social subjects including violence, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and broken families. He was well read as noted by his extensive reading list. 2Pac's poetry also reflected his many sides, some poems were motivated by love, others seeking to understand himself better and others by the cruel injustices of America and society.

Devin the Dude (born Devin Copeland), is a Houston-area rapper. Though relatively well-known among the underground hip-hop community during the mid-to-late 1990s, Devin did not achieve mainstream success until his breakout performance on the single F*** You on Dr Dre's 2001 album. Devin has released three albums, The Dude, Just Tryin to Live, and To Tha X-treme. Devin has worked with numerous artists in the hip-hop industry, ranging from The Roots and De La Soul to Xzibit and Jake the Snake and Nas. He was also a member of the southern rap groups "Odd Squad", "Facemob", and recently has released an album with his group, The "Coughee Brothaz" entitled "Collectors Edition".Besides sex, relationships, smoking marijuana, partying, and conscious or proverbial themes, much of Devin's work is also light-hearted and comically self-deprecating

No matter what is being supplied, a hustler is only as good as his word. With Atlanta serving up some of the hottest product in the rap game, native son Young Jeezy stands as one of the most exciting merchants of cool to emerge in years. Thanks to underground testimonials like “Air Forces” and “Chuuch,” Jeezy’s street swagger and authentic style has quickly made believers out of some the biggest players in the game, from Fabolous to P. Diddy. In his native Atlanta, and throughout the south, Young Jeezy has created nothing short of a movement. Now the world will get to find out what insiders have been buzzing about when his Def Jam debut, Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 drops this summer
Like many hustlers on the mic, rapping wasn’t in Jeezy’s original game plan. As CEO of Corporate Thug Entertainment, Jeezy was content to stack his paper from the background.

REALITY is a hard pill to swallow, and it can sometimes leave a bitter aftertaste. But just as the most torturous elixir can cure what ails you, a dose of reality can be the best medicine for someone who wants to get in touch with life and experience first hand its many lumps and bruises.
On his sophomore release, "TRAP MUZIK" - his first for Atlantic Records - T.I. fills the prescription for reality music: uncovering life stories from the trap, depicting the unrefined essence of street life and, more specifically, unveiling the grim realities of the drug game. "It's called trap music," T.I. explains. "So you know it's gonna be dealing with all aspects of the trap. And if you don't know what the trap is, that's basically where drugs are sold. In this country, the majority of us live in a neighborhood where drugs are sold, whether we like it or not. Whether you in the trap selling dope, whether you in the trap buying dope, whether you in the trap trying to get out - whatever the case may be, I'm trying to deal with all aspects of that lifestyle."

Don't let the name fool you. Cash Money Records' latest superstar Juvenile, is a hot rapper with more than ten years experience of ripping shows, dropping cold-as-ice lyrics and laying it down for "Uptown" New Orleans. "Juvenile is a name I got when I was young and thugging," explains 23-year-old Terius Gray.Juvenile hails from the infamous New Orleans Uptown region and was reared in the Magnolia projects. Like some other housing projects, the Magnolia projects have a serious reputation for being rowdy and wild. It's a place where few children survive unscathed by the horrendous poverty that grips many of the residents there. But not Juve. Like the elders of old, he kept his eyes on the prize - his dream of being a rap star. "I had my struggles," says a solemn Juvenile when asked about life in the "wild" Magnolia. "My pops went AWOL on me when I was four, so I had my struggles and I had peer pressure, but I didn't let things get to me. I always stayed focused on what I was trying to do."

Whoever coined the phrase "you can't keep a good man down," obviously had Bay Area rap pioneer Too $hort in mind. He has overcome tremendous obstacles in his quest to be the best player/rapper in a game he largely invented.
For the past ten years, Todd Shaw (AKA Too $hort), the man who was quite literally "born to mack," has been rap's original pimp lyricist of the year -- selling his unique blend of laid-back folk poetry to millions of die-hard fans around the globe. Beginning with his classic underground "Born To Mack" on through LPs like "$hort Dog's In The House", "Get In Where You Fit In", Too $hort has released an unprecedented ten straight LPs (seven on Jive Records). In a world where the average rapper is lucky to see three records hit the shelf, Too $hort has seen each of his Jive releases either go gold or platinum with little or no major support from major media outlets. Back in the day, the average fan learned about the new Too $hort record strictly by word of mouth traveling from street to street, hood to hood.

Legit (a.k.a The Savage), comin' straight out the Hillside with that Northern Cali Mobb sound, has been in the game for over 10 years. Before his rapping days B-Legit was a hustler on the streets of Vallejo (a.k.a Valley Jo, V-Town). He grew up in a single parent house surrounded by musical influences but still ran the streets.He was always tight with his kin folk and close friends which has continued even to today. B-Legit can always be caught loungin with his cousins E-40 (a.k.a. 40 water, Fonzarelli, Mr. Flamboyant), D-Shot (a.k.a. The Boss Baller), and Suga-T. He also is tight with fellow record mates on Sick Wid It, including Celly Cel, The Mossie, The Funk Mobb Playas Tryn' Strive, and Levitti. C-Bo, from the Garden Blocc Crips, is also a close patna and he appears twice on B-Legit's album The Hemp Museum.
B-Legit and his cousins started in this rap game back in 1986. The four of them perforemed at a talent show under the group name Most Valuable Players. After receiving encouraging response they decided to continue with this rap and take it to another level. They changed their name to The Click and recorded the Less Side in 1990

They said it couldn't be done, but KURUPT is proving he's second to none. Once again, this self-proclaimed Raw Dog Assassin has put down some of his best and hardest hitting rhymes on wax. Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha, released by ANTRA Music Group and Artemis Records, takes no prisoners.
The project reunites Kurupt with some the West Coast's biggest players- Daz Dillinger, Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg. Soopafly and Xzibit. KRS-One along with producers Battlecat and Organized Noize are also in the mix. And while some of hip hop's most revered appear on Streetz, Kurupt is totally in charge as the CD's opening track, "I Call The Shots," declares. Out first from the 18-track, power-packed album is "Girls All Pause" on which Nate Dogg does his musical magic and "Trylogy," full in effect with its classic gothic vibe.

Thizzelle Washington, Mr. Furly, Thizz King and many other nicknames; Creator of the Thizzle Dance, Thizzle Wiggle, Stupid Dances. Forever Remembered. Missed by Many. From California to Kansas City, to New York.

Great Lyricist, Dancer, Actor, performer, Producer, and many more thangs he was good at. Very Creative

R.I.P
Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks (1970-2004)
Thizz In Paridise