Omari Ishmael Grandberry, better known by his stage name Omarion, was born on November 12, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. His parents names are Leslie Burrel and Trent Grandberry and he is the older brother of singer O’Ryan and half brother of R&B singer Marques Houston. He was the former former lead singer of B2K until it’s breakup up in 2004. In Feburary of 2005, Omarion released his debut album entitled "O". It features the hit singles "O" which peaked at twenty-seven on the charts and "Touch" which peaked at ninety-four on the charts. It also spawned the single "I’m Tryna." The albu has since sold 758,000 copies in the United States. In 2006, Omarion released his sophomore album 21. The album landed at number one in the Billboard 200, selling 119,000 copies in its first week. Since 21, Omarion has released Face Off in 2007 and has another album scheduled for 2009. He has also acted in several movies which include You Got Served, Fat Albert and Feel the Noise. He has also appeared in such television shows as The Bernie Mac Show and Cuts. Omarion has also been nominated for a number of awards such as the BET Favorite R&B Male Artist in 2005 and the Best Male Breakthrough Performance MTV award in 2004.
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50 Cent was born Curtis James Jackson III on July 6,1975 in Queens, New York. He was raised until the age of eight years old by his mother Sabrina Jackson who made her living dealing cocaine. He than moved in with his grandmother. At the age of 14 he started boxing and selling crack cocaine on the street to earn extra money. In the summer of 1994, 50 Cent was arrested for selling drugs to an undercover officer. He was sentenced to 9 nines in prison but only had to serve 6 months in a boot camp program, where he earned his GED. Afterwards her started rapping and in 1996 met Jam Master Jay of Run DMC, who took him under his wing and taught him how to write and structure songs. 50 Cent made his first official appearance on Run DMC’s 1998 album Shut ‘Em Down, on the song React. In 1999 50 Cent left Jam Master Jay and signed to Columbia Records. In 2000 he released his unofficial debut album Power Of The Dollar. If February 2003, 50 Cent released his official commercial debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. It debuted at number one and sold over 800,000 copies in it’s first four days. Since then he has released three other studio albums which include The Massacre, Curtis and Before I Self Destruct. 50 Cent has sold over 23 million albums to date.
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Kings of Leon is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. They were formed in 2000 by the Followill brothersl. Members of the band include Nathan Followill, Caleb Followill, Jared Followill and Matthew Followill. The brothers spent much of their youth traveling around the South with their father, Leon, a traveling United Pentecostal Church preacher and their mother, Betty-Ann, who taught them when they were not in school. The boys learned to play drums, guitar and bass as children while performing gospel songs in the church. Kings of Leon’s first release, The Holy Roller Novocaine EP came out in 2003. Four of its five songs would later be released on Youth and Young Manhood, with the songs "California Waiting" and "Wasted Time" being remade. Their debut album, Youth and Young Manhood, was an average success, particularly outside the United States where they were dubbed one of the driving forces behind the so-called "new rock revolution" by the European press, most significantly in the United Kingdom. Kings of Leon released Because of the Times in 2007. The album became the band’s first number one album in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland. In 2008 they released their smash album, Only by the Night. It spawned the hit singles "Sex on Fire" and "Closer".
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Kanye West was born on June 8, 1977 in Atlanta,Georgia. His full and legal name is Kanye Omari West. When he was three years old, his parents divorced, and he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. Kanye West took some art classes at the American Academy of Art and also enrolled at Chicago State University, but dropped out due to poor grades and an ever increasing interest in music. In 2004, Kanye West released his debut album, The College Dropout. The album was recorded over a period of four years, beginning in 1999. The album became a smash hit spawning three ten top singles and selling over four hundred thousand copies in its first week. It has since gone on to sell three million units. The album received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song. Kanye West has since gone on to release three more records, Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007) and 808s & Heartbreak (2008). In August 2008, Kanye West revealed plans to open 10 Fatburger restaurants in the Chicago area, with the first coming in September 2008 in Orland Park. The second will follow in January 2009.
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