American music industry executives

American songwriter, record producer, rapper, and music executive (born 1972)

South Korean-American rapper and singer (born 1987)

American music producer, rapper and singer (born 1989)

American rapper, actor and record executive

American rapper and actor

American rapper and record executive (born 1969)

American record producer and DJ (born 1966)

American country music singer and fiddler (1903-1992)

Howard Earl Bailey Jr. (born March 9, 1980), better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American rapper. He toured as an opening act with fellow St. Louis rapper Nelly in 2002, and signed with Georgia-based rapper Ludacris' record label, Disturbing tha Peace (DTP), that same year. Released in a joint-venture with Capitol Records, his 2003 debut single, "Right Thurr" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jamaican-American rapper and actor (1967–2011)

Israeli–American media proprietor, investor

Earl Tywone Stevens (born November 15, 1967), better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. Stevens is a founding member of the rap group the Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released 27 studio albums to date, appeared on numerous movie soundtracks, and has also done guest appearances on a host of other rap albums. Initially an underground artist, his 1995 solo album In a Major Way opened him up to a wider audience. Beginning in 1998, he began collaborating with mainstream rappers outside the San Francisco Bay Area. He rose to higher mainstream popularity in 2

American singer, record producer, and executive (1936–2011)

Jason Terrance Phillips (born May 27, 1975), better known by his stage name Jadakiss (, ), is an American rapper who began his career in the 1990s and formed the hip hop trio the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in 1994. The group signed with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records, an imprint of Arista Records to release their debut studio album, Money, Power & Respect (1998); their second album, We Are the Streets (2000) was released by Ruff Ryders Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records. Both peaked within the top five of the Billboard 200 and yielded critical praise; their two subsequen

American record producer and musician (1911–2010)

American rapper, producer and actor

American entrepreneur and record executive

American record producer and songwriter

American music executive (born 1932)

American musician, producer & record company executive

American record producer and writer (born 1942)

American music executive

American record executive (born 1956)

American rapper and record producer

American rapper and record producer (1973–2007)

American music producer, journalist (1917–2008)

American rapper

American DJ, record executive and hype man (born 1978)

Turkish-American record producer (1932–2006)

American record producer, manager and director

American rapper (born 1981)

American record producer

American rapper

American DJ and producer

American rapper (born 1980)

American record producer (1931–1978)

American music executive

American rapper (1985–2021)

Lecrae Devaughn Moore (born October 9, 1979) is an American Christian rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, and recording producer and executive. Since having begun his career in 2004, he has released ten studio albums and four mixtapes as a solo artist, as well as recording with the hip-hop collective 116, which he co-founded.

American music executive, businessman, record producer, and manager

American rapper from New York (born 1974)

American jazz musician and producer (1918-2001)

American rapper from Louisiana

American talent manager and fraudster (1954–2016)

American actor

American record producer

Polish-American record company executive (1917-1969)

American businessman (1940–2016)

American rapper

American rapper

American rapper and record producer

American rapper from Georgia

American rapper (1990-2018)

German-born Jewish-American impresario and rock concert promoter (1931–1991)

American music executive (1942–2023)

American rapper and actor from California

American recording executive and co-founder of A&M Records

American rapper

American record producer

American record producer, songwriter, music publisher and musician (1932–2018)