Phalon Anton Alexander, better known in the world of music as Jazzy Pha was born in Memphis, Tennessee in the year 1975. He is a versatile genius. He is a record producer, songwriter, rapper and a singer all blended into one. Jazzy Pha's debut hit was "Sho Nuff", which was an anthem from Tela. He worked with many great artists in his working career including, Missy Elliott (1, 2 step), Nelly, Ludacris, Trick, Lil' Wayne etc. He is also said to have brought R&B singer Ciara to the field of music through producing her solo album "Goodies" and has been her mentor.

Jazzy Pha however, rose to the arena of music with the 1990-released album "Rising to The Top". The album got much appreciation because of the positive lyrics thrust. Ron Wayne described the album of Jazzy as "A merger of West Coast hip-hop and a Southern-funk vocal approach". His own creation has the smell of his Memphis roots and that reflected on the songs that he produced later in his life. The classical soul approach of jazzy Pha's music is also noticeable in the slower tracks the likes of which he produced with R&B singer Ciara. Ciara's album "Thug Style" reflects such a phenomenon.

The R&B singer Ciara was first noticed by Pha around 2002-04. In the year 2005, Ciara's album "Goodies" was released which had the creation s of a musical genius and that instantly made the album a massive hit. During 2006, Ciara made an acting debut in the film Jelly Beans and released Ciara's "Sophomore".

Robert Sylvester Kelly was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 8th. He is an American songwriter, pop singer, American R&B and a rapper. He entered the world of music as the founder and lead singer of "Public Announcement". He was a versatile personality who could do rap, hip-hop, and could mix soul and funk with equal ease. Kelly was always on the list of controversies because of the sexual references on his songs such as "Bump N' Grind", Feelin' on Yo Booty" and "Ignition", which is a remix.

In the year 1994, he worked with Aaliyah for her debut album "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number". This was his first encounter with Aaliyah. Later there were many occasion when he got the opportunity to work with Aaliyah. R Kelly was impressed by the vocal capability of Aaliyah and thus she was given an opportunity by Kelly to join "Background Enterprise". Her debut album "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" was composed and produced by Kelly himself that was a huge hit and helped Aaliyah obtain a stand in the music world. The album, a multi platinum hit with numbers such as "Back and Forth", "At Your Best" and "The Thing I Like". However, some controversial rumors fathomed during this time that affected Aaliyah's career. In the year 1996, however, Aaliyah made a come back without Kelly to her side and made the album "One In a Million".

However, there are certain parts of the audience who criticizes Aaliyah's straightforward deliveries and complains that she lacks the personality that is required to be a good performer and that her lyrics are static. However, despite of all the controversies and complains about R Kelly and Aaliyah there is no denial that the pair made some great music in the arena of rhythms.

Jermain Dupri Mauldin, also known as JD is an American record producer. He is also well established as a famous rapper. In the year 2006, JD became the youngest inductee to the "Georgia Music Hall of Fame". The music career of JD was self made and the credited hits are the "Money Ain't a Thang" (1998) with Jay-Z "Its like That" (2005) with Mariah Carey, "Welcome To Atlanta"(2001) in collaboration with Ludacris are the prominent ones in his career. In the year 2004 and 2005, Dupri had the experiences of working with Usher and Mariah Carey on their solo releases "Confessions" and "The Emancipation of Mimi" respectively. There are many other albums that he produced along with Carey that include "Its Like That", "We Belong Together", "Get Your Number", "Shake It Off" and "Don't Forget About Us" are the most significant ones in the line.

JD's album "Jermain Dupri presents….Young, Fly & Flashy, Vol. 1" proved controversial because of the content that had his girlfriend Janet Jackson in a peep show club, collected much criticisms and controversies. However, in a survey in the year 2006, Dupri was selected one of the top ten riches of the world of hip-hop music. Dupri again worked with Jackson for the production of the album 20 Y.O. that was released on September 2006. However, it never proved as much successful as Jackson's previous albums with JD. Because of the commercial underperformance by the company, Dupri left Virgin Urban Music and was appointed the head of Island Records. Quite recently, JD recorded few albums with Janet Jackson for the album "Discipline".

DJ Quik is one of the most famous singer, producer and rapper America has ever produced. Even if it was seen during the early 90's that the language of music is getting a global touch to its accent, Quik remained stubborn in constructing music by maintaining heritage. He is one of the few persons who have four gold and platinum albums and one hundred million soundscanned recordings to his credit.

He had a very struggling career in the first part of his life. He began his career in music by selling homemade mixtapes and after he moved out of school, he started DJing in the Southern California. However, in the year 1990, he joined Profile Records and proved himself not only as a singer but also as a producer.

Quik became famous in the field of music during the mid 90's when he began working under the management of the label of Death Row on "Above the Law" and created records in the g-funk style, unique to Quik himself. Mainly, he was hugely inspired by the two stalwarts of the g-funk style, Roger Troutman and George Clinton and learned to use the talkbox that later became the distinctive character of his creations up to the year 2005 when he announced the retirement of the talkbox. Around the year 1994, DJ Quik, under the management of Death Row, worked with the executive producer Suge Knight for the album "save+sound" that had Death Row as a special appearance. However, it is interesting to know that his debut album "Quik Is the Name" was quite successful. In 1998 his album "Rhythm-al-ism" labeled him as an underrated musician by most fans.

With the advent of rap music in the mid 70's there emerged a true rap icon that is considered the most consistent among the artists and the musicians because of his unique ability to blend the music to speak in the language of the urban society and maintain the music's heritage at the same time. DJ Quik has four gold and platinum albums to his name and over one hundred million soundscan recordings. Quik also has production experience with 2Pac, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre to his credit.

In mid 90's DJ took cues from Dr. Dre's Death Row Records and made a name for himself in the music field. He made records in the g-funk style that inspired him to the level that he learned to use the talkbox from Roger Troutman and George Clinton and later made it a trademark character in his musical creations. In the year 1994, DJ Quik joined Death Row under the management of Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row and together they went on to produce "Safe + Sound" that had Death Row as a guest appearance. While working with Death Row, Quik produced an unknown amount of songs among which some were never released. Under Quik's production, the most famous of Death Row song is "Heartz of Man", sung by 2Pac on his debut Death Row Record album "All Eyes on Me". Although he is known for the production of the album, DJ also did additional production work of mixing half of the album.

As DJ Quik worked hard against the personal and professional problems, he managed to fathom out of them, however, in the process, he changed his name to Quik and rubbed the DJ out of his name.

Timothy Z Mosely who is better known in the music world as Timbaland is a famous American producer, singer and a rapper. He ventured in the music industry in the 90s' and worked as a protege of Devante from Jodeci. His production style is marked by an individualistic uniqueness, unorthodox music arrangements and his instrumentation has a sense of space and rhythm. Timbaland is such a producer who has spread his musical influence on every genre of music and made a successful career as a pop music producer mainly. Timbaland is also a very good performer and has solo and duets to his credit. He also gave vocals to many of the songs sung by him as well as other contemporary singers.

Timbaland worked in collaboration with many of the famous singers and producers like Magoo, Petey Pablo, Beck, Jay-z etc. During the period around 2001, Timbaland produced three tracks for Tweet's debut collection, Southern Hummingbird and produced tracks for singers like Lil Kim and Southern rapper, Pastor Troy. In collaboration with producer Scott Storch, he worked on the production of a number of tracks by the former NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake. This smash album was entitled, "Justified". Another of the massive hits of the album includes "Cry Me a River". This song, however, helped Timberlake to establish himself as a mature singer and helped him to wipe out his teeny bopper image. Timbaland's talents to do rap and his appearance in the music video of "Cry Me A River" made him hugely famous. However, after the release of this album, Timbaland broke up with Scott over some financial problems. In the year, Timbaland produced album "Future, sex, love, sounds" was nominated got the Grammy awards in the "album of the year" category.

Sean John Combs, famously known as Puff Daddy or P. Diddy, was born in Harlem on November 4, 1969. Puff daddy, as he later came to be known, was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He derived his nickname of Puff Daddy as a child because of the way he used to puff his chest during football on the field. He was 18 when Puff Daddy joined Howard University, where he was notorious for his reputation in selling and trading term papers and exam papers and in endlessly promoting parties. It was no later than two years that Puff Daddy left Howard and found himself knocking at the doors of Andre Harrell, the executive of Uptown Records. Harrell quickly granted him internship and the rest, you know, is history!

That was just the beginning of a prosperous career, where he came to collaborate with several well-known entities in the industry like Jodeci and Mary J. Blige until he materialized his dream of founding his own label in 1993, with the Bad Boys Records. Puff Daddy, along with his childhood friend, Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.), made the company turn into a success having sold more than 12 million albums by 1994, with the help of Faith Evans and Craig Mack. Puff Daddy made his debut appearance with No Way Out in 1997.

After his association with superstar Jennifer Lopez, Puff Daddy has been in constant spotlight with the Bad Boy Records still continuing to be a reigning deity in the Hollywood with the Bad Boy Record continuing to swing the crowd to their tunes.

Born on October 4, 1957, in Queens, New York, USA, Russell Simons is the proud son of Daniel Simmons is accredited as the most successful businessman in the US history of rap music. Nicknamed as Rush, Russell Simons co-founded Def Jam Records in 1984 with his associate Rick Rueben. He first branched out from Def Jam Records to make his career in movies, acting and co-producing Krush Groove, a rap movie in the year 1985. The film essentially highlighted a glorified biography of his own with renowned actor Blair Underwood playing his part on screen, but could not make a mark upon the spectators.

This failure of his did not keep. Russell Simmons returned tougher than ever with another film that followed, Tougher Than Leather (1988). Russell Simmons also claimed full authority over Def Jam with Rick Rueben leaving the record company. Without causing any further delay, Russell Simmons quickly rushed into setting up his company, which he called the Rush Communications, trying out everything he could lay his hands upon – be it a clothing line or magazine production or even producing television comedies.

Russell Simmons, along with his other preoccupations, dedicated some part of his time constantly producing films and some of his commercially successful films include Gridlock'd, The Addiction and the Nutty Professor.

Timbaland is considered to be a great producer, singer and a rapper. His production was so full of individualistic fervor that it sometimes said to overshadow the credited performer and became the star attraction of the performance. Timberland has created some of the most astounding creations of the time and specialized in the modern pop music and the urban music. He also created songs for Missy Elliott who worked with him and DeVante. In April 2007, Timbaland released an album featuring singers such as Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott and Elton John.

While working on "Ginuwine…The Bachelor", R&B artist Aaliyah contacted Missy Elliot and Timbaland to compose the second album for her. The result was that the creation by Timbaland had so many innovations that Aaliyah became the superstar overnight. However, Timbaland is also accused for illegally sampling material from certain middle eastern sources. Timbaland's second album with Magoo, with whom he worked with DeVante Swing, was "Indecent Proposal" that has appearance by some of their acquaintances like Aaliyah and Beck.

In the year 2003, Timbaland's hit single "Deliverance" came out marking the release of the third album, which was a collaboration work of Timbaland and Magoo, was named the Under Construction Part 2. Sista, Timbaland, and Magoo became the Devant's Swing Mob signees who are also known as "Da Bassment" crew with artists such as the Playa, Ginuwine and the girl group Sugah. Timbaland's voice is deep and has a electronic sound, and he is the master of an attractive voice texture that made him popular among various genres along with pop and hip hop.

Timbaland Z. Moseley or Tm Moseley was born in the year 1971, March 10. Timbaland is an American composer, singer, rapper and record producer, who could make hip hop beats come alive. Timbaland is mainly known for his works in hip-hop, R&B and pop. Tim is the producer of many singles of many of the singers since the mid-90s. He has nicely played with many genres of music and his music characterizes a trademark sense of space and rhythm and have marked difference in the arrangements, sounds and instrumentation. He is also a very well reputed performer and has performed solo on many occasions. He has also provided the vocals to many of the songs that he produced.

Moseley grew familiar with Magoo in Norfolk. He began making backing tracks on hip-hop, which Magoo liked. At that time Missy Elliott, on behalf of Magoo, got a chance to work under Devante Swing. Elliott brought Moseley along and that was the starting point of Moseley’s work with the Devante. Devante is the member and the producer of the R&B act Jodeci. Devante actually renamed Timbaland after the Timbaland boot that became popular in the hip-hop fashion. Timbaland later became one of the parts of the Devante Swing's Mob signees known as "Da Bassment" crew. Later Timbaland did many of the production work with the Devante productions. Some of the projects that Timbaland worked under the Devante includes, the 1995 Jodeci LP the Show, The Hotel, The After Party, there are various others. In 1995, most of the acts of Devante broke ties with the producer. However, Timbaland, Magoo, Playa and a few others collaborated and continued working on individual projects.