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".

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.

Kanye Omari West, the American rap artist and hip-hop producer was born on 8th June 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. His debut album was "The College Dropout", released in 2004, which announced to the world that he knew how to make beats and rap. His first three albums were a big hit and received critical acclaims and numerous awards, including nine Grammys, the other two albums include his second and the third album as "The Late Registration" in 2005 and "Graduation" in 2007 respectively.

In the year 2001, West's songs were featured on Jay-Z's reputed album "The Blueprint". There were however many obstacle that followed the path of West. He was not recognized as a rapper by Roc-A-Fella as that part of the world has known him as a producer. Many of the record companies refused to take West as a hip hop artist as the companies felt that he lacks the "street image" that the rappers portray as a prominent hip-hop culture. In 2002, West took out his first single "through the wire". His Divine faith is well established by songs like "Jesus Walks". West was in the puddle with a financial dispute over Royce Da 59's song "Heartbeat". In 2008, February, West won four Grammy awards.

Nevertheless, a versatile personality like West also debut in television with the song "Through The Wire" on "Raymann is laat" in the year 2001. He was a great music maker with boundless energy and passion for music and a knowledge of playing with the tunes like the pied piper at his flute, mesmerizing generations with the spell of the music he created. Some of his albums include, "The College Dropout" and "Late Registration".