| A teenaged emcee from St. Louis, J-Kwon seemingly came out of nowhere and bum-rushed the rap game with "Tipsy," his addictively catchy debut single and ode to intoxication. Kicked out the house at age 12, he sold crack and worked on his rhymes for years, eventually landing a deal with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def label. His first album, Hood Hop, dropped in March 2004 |
