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William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976 in Coahoma County, Mississippi), better known by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper signed to his own label, Maybach Music Group. In 2006 he released his debut album Port of Miami, and has since released 2008's Trilla and 2009's Deeper Than Rap. He also has plans to release a collaboration album with Birdman entitled The H. Recently he has gained online attention for starting a feud with 50 Cent to gain publicity for his new album.

There are at least three artists by the same name: 1. A rapper from Baton Rouge, LA. Signed to Trill Entertainment, the label fronted by Webbie and Lil Boosie. “Wipe Me Down is a movement,” says Foxx who notes himself as the ‘last to sign, but the first of his kind’. “This is some different shit for Trill but we bringin’ all kinds of shit from under the table. We hit-makers and that’s the bottom line.”

Devin the Dude is a Houston-area rapper. Though relatively well-known among the underground hip-hop community during the mid-to-late 90's, Devin did not achieve mainstream success until his appearance on Dr. Dre's 2001 album. Besides sex, relationships, ridin' trucks, smokin' reefer, drinkin' beer, partying, and conscious or proverbial themes, much of Devin's work is also light-hearted and comically self-deprecating.

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager. Get It How U Live, released in 1997, was Lil Wayne's first album with Hot Boys, and Tha Block is Hot, his solo debut, came out in 1999. After gaining fame with two other albums in the early 2000s, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity with 2004's Tha Carter and its two subsequent albums Tha Carter II (2005) and Tha Carter III (2008).