Trina and Fabolous

During her free time in high school, Trina began writing rhymes until she caught the eye of Miami rapper Trick Daddy who offered the rapper a guest spot on his single “Nann Nigga” in 1998. The song became Trick Daddy’s lead single from his sophomore album “www.thug.com”, which reached No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100, and exposed Trina to huge audience. Due to the success Trina signed with Slip-n-Slide Records who issued her debut album “Da Baddest Bitch” in March 2001. Although the rapper failed to maintain creative control the album debuted at No. 33 on the Billboard 200, and stayed there for 29 weeks.

Working alongside Missy Elliot for her sophomore album, Trina had complete creative control over the release, which was released in August 2002. “Diamond Princess” debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the singles “Told Y’all” featuring Rick Ross, “No Panties”, and “B R Right” featuring Ludacris. The same year Trina launched her own label Diva Enterprises, which later became DP Entertainment, and signed the nine-year-old rapper Lil Brianna.

Trina’s third full-length album “Glamorest Life” was issued in October 2005 and out-performed both its predecessors, debuting at No. 11 on the Billboard 200. The album was led by the single “Don’t Trip” featuring Lil Wayne, and aided by the single “Here We Go” featuring Kelly Roland. After signing with EMI in 2007, Trina released two mixtapes “Rockstarr Royalty” and “Baddest Chick 2: Reloaded” ahead of her fourth full-length “Still da Baddest” in 2008. Reaching No. 6 on the Billboard 200, and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart, the album sold 47,000 in its first week.

Led by the single “That’s My Attitude”, Trina’s fifth studio album “Amazin’” was released in May 2010, and later spawned the hits “Million Dollar Girl”, “White Girl”, and “Always”. In 2011 Trina released the mixtape “Diamonds Are Forever”, which featured the singles “Ghetto”, “Waist So Skinny”, and “Can I”. The single “Beam” arrived in July 2012 featuring GunPlay, as well as the single “Bad Bitch” featuring Lolo Monroe and Shawnna.

Born on 18 November, 1977, Jackson was musical from a young age. His career actually began in high school in the 90s when he was spotted as a rapper an subsequently signed by the DJ Clue to his record label Desert Storm, which led to Fabolous being secured a deal with heavyweights Elektra records. Fabolous has since signed with giants Atlantic Records and, in present day, is signed with the label Def Jam whilst simultaneously founding his own record label, Street Family.

Fabolous’ first album was released in 2001 and was named ‘Ghetto Fabolous’ in an attempt at clever word-play. Despite the name, the album spawned a number of big hits including singles ‘Can’t Deny it’ and ‘Young’n (Holla Back)’. This provided the platform for Fabolous’ career to take off. His next album was 2003’s ‘Sweet Dreams’ and produced two top ten singles, ‘Can’t Let You Go’ and ‘Into You’. Besides these, Fabolous has released a whole stream of successful singles and has collaborated with a number of high profile artists such as Lil’ Mo, Christina Milian, Trey Songz and Hollywood legend turned part time rapper Jamie Foxx. Fabolous has a handful of albums under various record labels to date and has enjoyed enormous success from them all.