AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGERS - RAPPERS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
RAP & HIP-HOP: 50 cent Afroman Big Pun Black Rob Bow Wow Busta Rhymes Chingy Chino XL Chubb Rock Common Coolio Da Brat De La Soul DMX Eve Fabolous Flipmode Squad Fugees Funkmaster Flex Gang Starr Grandmaster Flash Ghostface Killah Hieroglyphics Ice Cube Jadakiss Ja Rule Jay-Z Juvenile Kanye West Lauryn Hill Lil Jon Lil' Kim Lil' Zane Lloyd Banks Ludacris Missy Elliott Nas Nate Dogg Nelly Notorious Big Obie Trice Ol' Dirty Bastard Outkast P. Diddy Petey Pablo Q-Tip Run DMC Scarface Snoop Dogg Talib Kweli Tha Eastsidaz The Game Too Short Tupac Shakur Twista Warren G Wyclef Jean Xzibit Ying Yang Twins	R & B / SOUL: 98 Degrees Aaliyah Aaron Neville Al Green Alicia Keys Angie Stone Anita Baker Ashanti Aretha Franklin Avant B2K Babyface Barry White Beyonce Brandy Brian McKnight Chaka Khan Christina Milian Ciara Curtis Mayfield Deniece Williams Destiny's Child Diana Ross Dionne Warwick Earth Wind & Fire Erykah Badu Etta James Faith Evans Ginuwine Gladys Knight Jackie Wilson James Brown Jamiroquai Joe JoJo Kci & JoJo Lionel Richie Luther Vandross Macy Gray Mariah Carey Mario Marvin Gaye Mary J. Blige Maxwell Melba Moore Nancy Wilson Natalie Cole Omarion Patti LaBelle Queen Latifah Randy Crawford Roberta Flack Sade Sam Cooke Stephanie Mills Tina Turner Toni Braxton Usher Valerie Simpson Whitney Houston	JAZZ: Abbey Lincoln Acoustic Alchemy Al Jarreau Alex Bugnon Billie Holiday Blake Aaron Boney James Branford Marsalis Brian Culbertson Chuck Loeb Craig Chaquito Dave Koz David Benoit Dinah Washington Ella Fitzgerald Ethel Waters FattBurger Gato Barbieri George Benson Gerald Albright Grover Washington Jr. Greg Adams Herb Alpert Herbie Hancock Hiroshima Jeff Golub Jeff Lorber Joe Williams Jonathan Butler Keiko Matsui Kenny G. Marc Antoine Nat King Cole Nina Simone Ozzie Ahlers Patti Austin Ray Charles Sarah Vaughn
GOSPEL: A1 Swift Alabama State Mass Choir Albertina Walker Andre Crouch Angela Spivey Angie & Debbie Winans B. Chase Williams & Shabach Beverly Crawford Bishop Larry Trotter Billy Lester & AWP Bishop Andrew J. Ford II Bishop Paul S. Morton Bishop T.D. Jakes Brenda Waters Bryant Pugh Byron Cage Canton Spirituals Cece Winans Chicago Mass Choir Christianaires Clark Sisters COGIC International Choir Colorado Mass Choir Commissioned Dallas/Fort Worth Mass Choir Danniebelle Hall Daryl Coley Dawkins & Dawkins Debra Killings Deitrick Haddon Derrick Starks Donnie McClurkin Fred Hammond Hezekiah Walker Juanita Bynum Karen Clark Sheard Kirk Franklin Kurt Carr Singers Lamar Campbell Marvin Sapp Mary Mary Maurette Brown Clark Norman Hutchins Richard Smallwood Shekinah Glory Ministry Smokie Norful Walt Whitman	REGGAE: Bob Marley Daddy Yankee Easy Star All Stars Toots and the Maytals Ziggy Marley	BLUES: Albert King Chris Thomas King Freddie King Guitar Shorty Johnny Guitar Watson