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Cameron Jibril Thomaz, better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper.

Born 8^th September 1987 in Minot, North Dakota, Thomaz moved around a lot as a child, living in Germany, England and Japan before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA to attend high school. He took an interest in rap and hip hop music from a young age and chose his stage name in his early teens – choosing ‘Wiz’ as a shortening of ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Khalifa’ because it’s an Arabic word meaning successor. He released his first mixtape Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania when he was eighteen, and this led to a deal to record his first full-length studio album with Rostrum Records.

Show and Prove was released in September 2006. It sold over 10,000 copies, produced the single Pittsburgh Sound (All in My Blood) and led to Rolling Stone magazine rating the rapper as an ‘artist to watch’ over the next few years. Khalifa signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007 and released two more mixtapes that year: Grow Season and Prince of the City 2. The latter included the single Say Yeah, which reached number twenty on the US Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. He released a further two mixtapes over the next year – Star Power and Flight School – before parting ways with Warner Bros. in early 2009.

Following the release of his sixth and seventh mixtapes How Fly (ft. Curren$y) and Burn After Rolling in 2009, along with the single Teach U to Fly, Khalifa put the final touches on his second studio album. Released on 24^th November, Deal or No Deal reached number 25 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and produced two hit singles: This Plane and Red Carpet (Like A Movie).

Wiz Khalifa released his eighth official mixtape Kush and Orange Juice in April 2010.

Ahead of the release of his fourth studio album Thug Motivation 103, Young Jeezy has been discussing why he’s decided to feature some lesser-known hip hop acts in the forms of Plies and Yo Gotti.

“Me and Gotti kind of came up at the same time,” Jeezy told MTV News. “But I respected his grind just as well as he respected mine. Same thing with Plies.” He also revealed it was important to show his Southern roots with his collaboration. “Of course I’ve sold records in other places, but I don’t ever want to forget [where I come from]. So look who I’m bringing with me. You heard of them, but you don’t know them. But now you know them.”

Plies is featured on the track Lose My Mind while Yo Gotti appears on All White Everything – two of the first three singles on the album – while Lil Jon also features later on the track Jizzle. The album itself is due for release on 28^th September 2010. To download these and any other Young Jeezy ringtones, visit mobijoy.com

Chad Lamont Butler, better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper, hip hop singer and record producer.

Born 29^th December 1973 in Crowley, Louisiana but raised in Port Arthur, Texas, Butler grew up in a musical environment as his father was a professional trumpeter who regularly worked with the blues/gospel singer Solomon Burke. Butler studied classical music at high school and sang in the choir, but soon began to take an interest in hip hop after listening to Run-DMC. This led to him forming the rap group Underground Kingz – later known as simply UGK – with his best friend Bernard Freeman (aka Bun B). After appearing at several venues in the local area they were signed to Jive Records in 1992.

Their first release was Too Hard to Swallow, which reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. This was followed by 1994’s Super Tight, which reached the Top 10 in the same chart (also breaking into the top half of the Billboard 200 pop chart) and earned the duo overwhelming critical acclaim, and then came 1996’s Ridin’ Dirty­ (which charted inside the Top 20 on the Billboard 200). This was followed by some high-profile appearances on other artists’ records, including Jay-Z’s Top 20 hit Big Pimpin’ and Three 6 Mafia’s Sippin’ On Some Syrup, and the release of their fourth studio album Dirty Money – which shot to number eighteen on the Billboard 200.

The group were forced to take a hiatus from 2002 to 2005 as Butler was incarcerated on a gun assault charge. During this time his record label released the rapper’s one and only solo album – Sweet James Jones Stories. Immediately upon his release UGK returned to studio to record their self-titled fifth studio album. Released on 7^th August 2007, it was the biggest hit of their career, shooting straight to number one on the Billboard 200 and producing the hit single International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You).

However, just four months later, Butler was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room. According to the coroner’s report, he had accidentally overdosed on promethazine and codeine.