Damon Jeremiah Washington, AKA Diverse Character is an underground hip-hop artist from Trenton. His online bio states that he didn’t find much support for his musical aspirations while growing up in the city. His mother moved the family to Yardley Pennsylvania when he was 12. One of his notable achievements is being named an artist […]

Ellie Coles, also known as Ellz Coles, is a Trenton-born hiphop artist. Reverbnation YouTube Twitter

(Submitted by the artist’s representative) Jalmed Marks aka “21Bandz” was born June 21st 1991 in Trenton New Jersey where he found his Splashin Sound. 21Bandz has been influenced by many artist such as Jay -z ,Rick Ross ,Meek Mill , and Yo Gotti. 21Bandz been performing since he linked up with child hood friend Lamont […]

Hip-hop icon Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but spent part of his teenaged years in East Trenton, New Jersey, where he attended Trenton Central High School. He did not graduate. It was also where another student, Gil De Haven, introduced him to drug dealing and encouraged his rap career. In his […]

Craig Mack is a former rapper best known for the 1994 single, “Flava in Ya Ear.”  According to multiple sources, he was born in Trenton, New Jersey  in 1971, although the exact dates vary. He grew up in Brentwood Long Island, and began recording with Bad Boy Records in 1988.  But it was Flava in Ya […]

Collins Leysath  aka DJ Ready Red (1965-2018) is an original member of the influential Hip-hop group, The Geto Boys.  According to multiple interviews, his mother was a church musician who played popular R&B music at home. He started out as part of Trenton, New Jersey’s disco scene (“I was part of the first Puerto Rican […]

From her Wikipedia page: Dionne Yvette Farris (born December 4, 1969) is an American, singer, songwriter, producer and actress. Born and raised in New Jersey, she began singing in elementary school and competed in pageants as a teenager. In the early 1990s, she performed as the vocalist on hip hopgroupArrested Development (1992) hit single “Tennessee”. […]

Donald “Pup” Bolding is a songwriter, guitarist and producer whose talents have taken him from school and church ensembles in Trenton to touring and recording gigs with such hitmakers as Nelly, Case, Deborah Cox and Sarah Dash. He co-produced Sarah Dash’s album, :The Seventh Child, and co-wrote two of the songs.

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From their Wikipedia page: Poor Righteous Teachers is a hip hop group from Trenton, New Jersey, founded in 1989.[1] Often referred to as PRT by its fans, Poor Righteous Teachers is known as a pro-Black conscious hip hop group, with musical content inspired by the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths. Wise Intelligent, […]