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Famous Rappers


Quiz

  1. Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu is better known by what stage name?
  2. By what professional name do we know Marshall Bruce Mathers III?
  3. Can you name the first female rapper to sell more than 100 million records worldwide?
  4. Which rapper has won a total of 22 Grammy Awards, the most by any rapper, and in 2017 became the first rapper to be honored into the Songwriters Hall of Fame?
  5. What stage name is Sean Combs better known by?
  6. Which rapper potrays NYPD Detective/Sergeant Odafin Tutuola in the police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?




  7. Who won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song "Glory" in the 2014 film Selma?
  8. Which hip hop artist was shot four times in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997?
  9. Which rapper and actress played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie?
  10. Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. is better known by what stage name?
  11. Shawn Corey Carter is better known by what stage name?
  12. Which 2015 American biographical drama film depics the rise and fall of the gangsta rap group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre?
  13. Stanley Kirk Burrell is better known by what stage name?
  14. Lauren Hill is known for being a member of which American hip hop group who rose to fame in the mid-1990s?
  15. In the late 1980s, under what name did Will Smith achieve modest fame as a rapper?
  16. Which rapper headlined the 2019 Glastonbury Festival? And can you name his first UK number-one single in the same year?
  17. Which rapper is a "global ambassador" for the Toronto Raptors basketball team?
  18. Which American singer, rapper and songwriter composed the theme song for Despicable Me?
  19. "Juicy" was the first single from which rapper's 1994 debut album, Ready to Die?
  20. By what stage name is British MC, rapper, and songwriter Dylan Kwabena Mills better known?
  21. Which American hip hop duo was formed in 1992 by rappers Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton?
  22. "Go shawty, it's your birthday, we gon' party like it's yo birthday." are the opening lines to which song?

Answers:

  1. Tinie (formerly Tinie Tempah)
  2. Eminem
  3. Nicki Minaj
  4. Jay-Z
  5. Puff Daddy or P. Diddy
  6. Ice-T (real name, Tracy Lauren Marrow)
  7. Common (real name, Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn)
  8. The Notorious B.I.G. (or Christopher George Latore Wallace)
  9. Queen Latifah
  10. Snoop Dogg
  11. Jay-Z
  12. Straight Outta Compton
  13. MC Hammer (or simply Hammer)
  14. Fugees
  15. The Fresh Prince (his popularity later increased dramatically in the 1990s when he starred in the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
  16. Stormzy. The song is called Vossi Bop.
  17. Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham)
  18. Pharrell Williams
  19. The Notorious B.I.G.




  20. Dizzee Rascal
  21. Outkast
  22. "In da Club" (by 50 Cent)