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Tyler, the Creator
Tyler, the Creator (Tyler Gregory Okonma, born 1991) is an American rapper, producer, and designer, Odd Future cofounder, two-time Grammy winner for IGOR, and six-category 2026 Grammy nominee for Chromakopia and Don't Tap the Glass.
U-God
U-God, also known as Golden Arms, is the stage name of Lamont Jody Hawkins, an American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, formed on Staten Island in the early 1990s.
Ufo361
Ufo361, born Ufuk Bayraktar in Berlin in 1988, is a German trap and cloud rap rapper who founded the Stay High label and scored German number-one albums.
Ugly God
Ugly God (Royce Cornell Davison-Rodriguez, born 1996) is a Houston-raised rapper and producer of the SoundCloud era, known for the 2016 viral hit "Water," the 2017 XXL Freshman Class, and the 2019 debut album Bumps & Bruises.
UK Afrobeats Chart
The UK Afrobeats Chart is the Official Charts Company's weekly Top 20 of the UK's biggest Afrobeats songs, launched in July 2020 and considered among the world's first official charts for the genre.
UK drill
UK drill is a London-born offshoot of Chicago drill rap, emerging around 2014 with sliding 808s, a 1-2-2 hi-hat pattern, and grime-inherited bounce; known for 67 and Headie One, mainstream hits like Russ's "Gun Lean", and heavy policing over lyrics used as court evidence.
UK underground rap
UK underground rap: rap made in Britain outside major-label distribution, spanning 1980s Britcore, 2010s DIY labels High Focus and Blah, and the 2023-2025 SoundCloud wave of fakemink, EsDeeKid, and Jim Legxacy, distinct from grime and drill.
Uncle Murda
Uncle Murda, real name Leonard Grant (born 1978), is a Brooklyn East New York rapper known for mixtapes, Roc-A-Fella and G-Unit deals that produced no studio album, and his annual Rap Up year-in-review songs.
Until the End of Time (Tupac Shakur album)
Until the End of Time is 2Pac's double album of unreleased Death Row-era recordings, released March 27, 2001 on Amaru/Death Row/Interscope; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified 4x Platinum.
Upchurch (musician)
Upchurch (Ryan Edward Upchurch, born 1991, Pegram, Tennessee), also Upchurch the Redneck, is an independent American country rap and hick-hop artist whose 2015 EP Cheatham County charted on Billboard and who alternates hip-hop and country albums.
URL (Ultimate Rap League)
The Ultimate Rap League (URL) is an American battle rap league founded by Smack White in New York in 2009, widely seen as the sport's leading league.
Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle, born 1967) is the American rapper whose "Ice Ice Baby" became the first rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100; his album To the Extreme sold over seven million copies before a backlash over a fabricated biography.
Vedan (rapper)
Vedan (വേടൻ), stage name of Hirandas Murali, is a Dalit anti-caste Malayalam rapper from Thrissur, Kerala. Known for "Voice of the Voiceless" (2020) and "Vaa" (2021), film songs like "Kuthanthram", a Kerala State Film Award, Calicut University syllabus inclusion, and 2025 sexual assault, drug, and wildlife cases.
Veeze
Veeze is a Detroit rapper known for scratchy, Auto-Tuned, offbeat delivery; debut mixtape Navy Wavy (2019), viral 2020 single Law N Order, acclaimed 2023 album Ganger on Warner Records, and 2026 mixtape Y'all Won.
Vegedream
Vegedream, real name Sachtela Evrard Djedje, is a French rapper and singer of Ivorian origin, born in 1992 in Orléans, blending rap, R&B, and afro-pop.
Vernon (최한솔) (rapper)
Vernon (최한솔, Hansol Vernon Chwe, born 1998) is an American-South Korean rapper in SEVENTEEN's hip-hop unit, solo artist behind Black Eye and I'll Be Back, and V8 member with THE 8.
Vic Mensa
Vic Mensa (Victor Kwesi Mensah, born 1993) is a Chicago rapper and singer, member of Kids These Days, founder of SAVEMONEY with Chance the Rapper, Roc Nation artist behind INNANETAPE, The Autobiography, 16 Shots, 93PUNX, and Victor.
Video vixen
Video vixen: a scantily clad female model appearing as eye candy in music videos, chiefly hip-hop and R&B, also called video girl or hip-hop honey. Emerged with 2 Live Crew's 1989 "Me So Horny," peaked in the early 2000s, declined with Instagram and smaller budgets.
Vince Staples
Vince Staples (born 1993, Long Beach, California) is an American rapper of West Coast, alternative, and contemporary rap; debut Summertime '06 (2015), later Big Fish Theory, FM!, and the rock album Cry Baby (2026), plus the Netflix series The Vince Staples Show.
Vinnie Paz
Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri, born 1977), also Ikon the Verbal Hologram, is a Philadelphia underground rapper fronting Jedi Mind Tricks, Army of the Pharaohs, and Heavy Metal Kings, with solo albums from Season of the Assassin (2010) onward on Enemy Soil.
Violent J
Violent J (Joseph Frank Bruce, b. 1972, Berkley, Michigan) is the Detroit rapper who co-founded Insane Clown Posse, created the Dark Carnival mythology, and runs Psychopathic Records and Juggalo Championship Wrestling.
Viper (rapper)
Viper (rapper), stage name of Lee Carter (born 1971), is a Houston, Texas underground rapper from El Dorado, Arkansas, known for the viral album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack, thousands of self-released songs, and RhymeTyme Records.
Waka Flocka Flame
Waka Flocka Flame (Juaquin James Malphurs, born 1986) is an Atlanta trap rapper; his 2010 debut Flockaveli with Lex Luger production and hits like "Hard in Da Paint" and "No Hands" defined early-2010s trap.
Wale (rapper)
Wale (Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, born 1984) is a Washington, D.C. rapper known for go-go-influenced hip-hop, Seinfeld-themed mixtapes, and Billboard 200 No. 1 albums The Gifted and The Album About Nothing.
Warren G
Warren G (Warren Griffin III), Long Beach rapper-producer, stepbrother of Dr. Dre, 213 founder with Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg; 1994's Regulate…G Funk Era went triple platinum.
Wati B
Wati B is a French independent hip-hop label founded in Paris in 1999 by Dawala, best known as the home of Sexion d'Assaut, Maître Gims, and Black M.
Watkin Tudor Jones
Watkin Tudor Jones, known as Ninja or Waddy, is a South African rapper and performance artist, frontman of the rap-rave group Die Antwoord. Earlier projects include Max Normal, The Constructus Corporation, and Original Evergreens.
WC (rapper)
WC (Dub-C), William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., born 1970, is a West Coast rapper from Los Angeles of Low Profile, WC and the Maad Circle, and Westside Connection, and a solo artist since The Shadiest One (1998).
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service is A Tribe Called Quest's sixth and final album (Epic, November 11, 2016), their first in 18 years, finished after Phife Dawg's death, produced by Q-Tip in New Jersey, and their first number-one album in 20 years.
Webbie
Webbie (Webster Gradney, Jr., born 1985) is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper on Trill Entertainment, known for the Savage Life album series and hits "Give Me That" and "Independent".