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According to Eminem himself, in the late 1990?s, about a year before he signed with Dr. Dre, one of the baddest MCs in Detroit, Swift, pulled up in a car and rolled down his window. He asked Eminem: ?Yo, Don?t you feel like, man, even if you never get [record] deals that you could just rap forever??.

Crossfade is a post grunge band originating in Columbia, South Carolina. The group came together in 1999 with the merging of singer/guitarist Ed Sloan with bassist/backup singer Mitch James and drummer Brian Geiger as the power trio The Nothing and then the name was changed to Crossfade in 2002. The group added singer and DJ Tony Byroads from Buffalo, New York. The resulting quartet renamed itself Sugardaddy Superstar.

Alicia Keys (born January 25, 1980) is an American R&B/soul singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, pianist, and actress. Keys is a renowned artist who has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide and won numerous awards, including nine Grammys, ten Billboard Music Awards and three American Music Awards.

Jeffery Atkins (born February 29, 1976 in Hollis, Queens, New York), better known as Ja Rule, is an American rapper and actor. Ja Rule is one of the best selling rap artists of all-time with 20 million albums sold worldwide, numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is a two time Grammy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter, actress, and record producer. She has had four solo top ten singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and the U.S. She has starred in the 2003 film Love Don't Cost a Thing opposite Nick Cannon.

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Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop singer?songwriter and an occasional actress. She is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson.

Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979) is an American actress, model, and Grammy Awards-winning R&B/pop singer, known professionally as Brandy. She is best known for her starring role in the UPN sitcom Moesha, and for hit songs such as "Sittin' Up in My Room," "Have You Ever," and "The Boy Is Mine."

There is a prominent feeling that when a band decides to grow up and write more about real life, adult situations they have become a better band. A good case of this can be seen in the popular pop band blink-182.

Green Day is a musical group from California, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Jason White, and Jason Freese. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. Their success has influenced other prominent pop punk bands like Sum 41, Good Charlotte and Blink-182.