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1. Eve -- Eve Jihan Jeffers
   Philadelphia native Eve Jihan Jeffers caught her first break when Dr. Dre signed her to his label, Aftermath. Her contract with Aftermath expired before she was able to record an album, but a meeting with DMX led to her being brought into the Ruff Ryders crew (DMX, Drag-On, Lox, and Infa-Red). Their debut album, Ride or Die, Vol. 1, entered the Billboard charts at No. 1 in 1999, and Eve's "What Ya Want" from the album became a hit single. Later that year she released her debut solo album, Eve: Ruff Ryders' First Lady, which sold nearly 2 million copies. Her second solo effort, 2001's Scorpion, featured guest performances by DMX, Monique, and Gwen Stefani, while 2002 marked movie roles in Barbershop and XXX, and the release of her third album, Eve-Olution. The following year she starred in her own sitcom, Eve, on UPN.
2. Bizzy Bone -- Albums
   In 1998, Bizzy Bone released his first major solo album entitled Heaven'z Movie. It was released under Ruthless Records, Mo Thugs, and Relativity Records. The producers were Nina, Johnny J, Mafisto, Mike Smoov, Erik 'E' Nordquist, Mike Johnson & Cat Cody.
3. Ja Rule -- Ruff Ryder
   As the flagship artist for producer Irv Gotti's Def Jam-affiliated Murder Inc. label, Ja Rule became the rap industry's most commercially successful artist during the early 2000s, working closely with the hitmaker and his stable of talent. Ja initially won over a sizable following with Venni Vetti Vecci (1999), his rather hardcore debut album modeled largely after the style of rugged thug rap then popularized by DMX and the Ruff Ryder collective. In particular, "Holla Holla" became a breakout hit, but in retrospect it was a minor success relative to what Ja accomplished a year later with his follow-up album, Rule 3:36 (2000). On this album, Gotti juxtaposed the rapper's thuggish style with a trio of radio-friendly vixens -- Christina Milian, Lil' Mo, and Vita -- and produced three enormous hit singles: "Between Me and You," "I Cry," and "Put It on Me." These duets established the template for Ja's following album, Pain Is Love (2001), which featured yet more chorus-singing divas, this time Jennifer Lopez ("I'm Real") and Ashanti ("Always on Time"), as well as a similarly styled interpolation of Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" ("Livin' It Up") featuring Case on the hook. By 2002, Ja alone had brought Gotti's Murder Inc. label into the national spotlight and helped break successive artists from the label, most notably Ashanti, who collaborated with him on "Down 4 U," yet another chart-topping hit. Roughly around this same time, Ja used his fame to launch a minor acting career for himself, beginning with The Fast and the Furious (2001), and he began to attract attention from his peers, uniting with Nas on the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards and squabbling with DMX in the press.
4. Lighting (Stagecraft) -- Theatre
   An Arri Finesse provides lighting control via industry standard DMX to 132 dimmers and 13 switched circuits. The desk can be operated as a manual board with several pages each of 24 submasters, or as a memory desk with timed and sequenced crossfades with memory states being labelled through use of a QWERTY keyboard. If required, the desk can be operated from the auditorium during show set-up. Further details on lighting facilities can be found in the Hiring The Plaza Theatre page.
5. Ja Rule -- Fast And The Furious
   Ja Rule is a popular rap singer who has turned his fame in the music industry into a budding career as a film star. He has appeared in a number of feature films, including: Turn It Up (2000), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Crime Partners 2000 (2001), Half Past Dead (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), The Cookout (2004), Back in the Day (2004).
6. Jet Li -- Lethal Weapon
   The film will be Andrzej Bartkowiak's fourth as director, having previously directed Jet Li in Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the Grave, and Steven Seagal in Exit Wounds. If that doesn't sound like much of a resume, Bartkowiak's record as a Cinematographer has somewhat greater credibility. Thirty two films, from Terms of Endearment in 1983, the Michael Douglas classic Falling Down, and a string of Nineties action flicks: Speed, Species, US Marshals and Lethal Weapon 4.
7. Jadakiss -- Album
   Jadakiss is garbage, along with everyone rollin with RR, xcept for DMX. And BC, if you like Jada ripping the prez so much, why did you have such a problem with the Beastie Boys doing it on there latest album?
8. Eva Mendes -- Roles
   Eva Mendes was a student at Cal State Northridge with no particular show business aspirations, when she was "discovered" by a neighbor's talent agent. Within weeks she was in an Aerosmith video, and shortly after that she made her film debut in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror with Ahmet Zappa and Fred Williamson. She worked her way into progressively larger roles in bit-by-bit more prestigious movies, including Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Stuck On You, and Hitch.
9. Dreamweaver -- Macromedia Dreamweaver
   Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a major breakthrough for XML development, just as Dreamweaver MX 2004 was for CSS. The development team behind this release decided to offer people the entry-point support they needed to tackle XML and XSL-based web projects. The approach Dreamweaver 8 takes to XML and XSL is no surprise
10. Nas -- Rappers
    In 1998 Nas made his feature film debut, appearing in Belly. Co-starring with fellow rapper DMX, the two hip-hop stars played best friends. Although they both come from the same violent neighborhood, these two friends want very different things out of life. Tommy, played by DMX, is willing to do whatever it takes to attain money, power, and women. Nas's character, Sincere, wishes only to provide for his girlfriend and their child. To do so, he has partnered with Tommy in a world of crime, violence, and drugs.

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