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Eve: Eve Jihan Jeffers
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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.
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Philadelphia native Eve Jihan Jeffers is a competent if unexceptional MC whose commercial success has largely been spun from her streetwise brand of flapper glamour. Lacking the outrageousness of Lil' Kim or the lyrical roughness of Lady of Rage, Eve is an easy-to-digest artist as au courant as the musically thin Swizz Beats-produced tracks she often rhymes over.
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One of the most prominent female rappers of the 2000s, Eve Jihan Jeffers was born in Philadelphia to teenage parents that had separated by the onset of her teen years. Subsequently raised by her mother and grandmother, she gradually drifted into deliquency and drug trafficking despite having shown a distinct talent for writing. Her pursuit of a music career was initially launched through EDGP, a rap and dance trio she joined while still in school; ... the project only lasted for a handful of performances, and upon its demise she decided instead to pursue a solo career. Using the name Eve of Destruction, she managed to establish a reputation on the local club circuit and through talent contests, but the less constructive aspects of her lifestyle created a barrier to any greater success. After graduating from high school, she began working as a stripper; a distaste for the environment and an encouraging talk with rapper Mase soon gave her the incentive to attempt a full-fledged career as a rap performer.
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