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Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens, born 1970, Newark, NJ) is an American rapper, singer, and actress; Grammy winner for "U.N.I.T.Y.", Oscar-nominated for Chicago, first solo female rapper with a Gold album.
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band formed in Bellevue, Washington in the early 1980s, known for the 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime and for selling more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Questlove
Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson, born 1971) is a Philadelphia-born drummer who co-founded The Roots in 1987, serves as musical director of The Tonight Show, and won an Oscar for directing Summer of Soul (2021).
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1975 by Kevin DuBrow and Randy Rhoads and best known for its 1983 album Metal Health.
Quivver
Quivver is the alias of British producer and DJ John Graham, active since the early 1990s and known for progressive house, trance, and Bedrock Records releases.
Quix
Quix, real name Jonathan Schnell, is a New Zealand DJ and electronic producer from Auckland known for wonky trap and bass music, now based in Los Angeles.
Qveen Herby
Qveen Herby is the rap and R&B alter ego of Amy Noonan, formerly of pop duo Karmin with husband Nick Noonan; rebranded in 2017 with 'Karmin Is Dead, Long Live the Qveen,' releasing EPs and projects independently.
R.A. the Rugged Man
R.A. the Rugged Man (Richard Thorburn, born 1974, Long Island) is an American underground rapper whose Jive and Priority albums were shelved before his 2004 debut Die, Rugged Man, Die; known for the Uncommon Valor verse and Nature Sounds albums.
R&S Records (record label)
R&S Records is a Belgian electronic music label founded in Ghent in 1983 by Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, known for releases by Aphex Twin and Joey Beltram.
R3hab
R3hab, the stage name of Fadil El Ghoul, is a Dutch-Moroccan DJ and record producer born in Breda in 1986, prominent in Dutch house and known for remixing pop artists.
R3LL
R3LL is the stage name of Terrell Griffith, an American Jersey club producer and DJ from Newark, New Jersey, and an original member of the Brick Bandits crew.
RaceCarBed
RaceCarBed is a Baltimore-based producer and DJ duo, Stanley Trutsi and Eric Stevens, active since 2010 and working across trap, tech house, and drum & bass.
Rachika Nayar
Rachika Nayar is an Indian-American experimental electronic musician and guitarist in Brooklyn, known for the albums Our Hands Against the Dusk and Heaven Come Crashing.
Radio Slave
Radio Slave is the principal alias of Matt Edwards, a British techno and house producer, DJ, and remixer who founded the Rekids label in 2006.
RaeCola
RaeCola is an American house DJ and production duo of twin sisters Rachel and Nicole Henderson from Chicago's South Side, known for their ghetto tech house sound blending booty bass and juke.
Raekwon
Raekwon (Corey Woods), Raekwon the Chef, American rapper and founding member of Wu-Tang Clan; his 1995 solo debut Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... established mafioso rap, followed by seven more solo albums and a 2021 memoir.
RAF Camora
RAF Camora, born Raphael Ragucci in 1984, is an Austrian rapper and producer based in Berlin who blends German-language street rap with trap and dancehall.
Raftaar
Raftaar (Dilin Nair, b. 1988, Thiruvananthapuram) is an Indian rapper raised in Delhi, known for "Swag Mera Desi", albums Zero to Infinity and Mr. Nair, the Kalamkaar label, MTV Hustle judging, and over a billion streams.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine, RATM, American rap-metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 by Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk; three politically charged studio albums plus Renegades (2000), 2023 Rock Hall induction, final live retirement announced 2024.
Rah Digga
Rah Digga (Rashia Fisher, born 1974, Newark, NJ) is an American rapper, Flipmode Squad and Outsidaz member, whose 2000 debut Dirty Harriet and 2010 Classic made her one of hip hop's most respected female lyricists; also an educator via Lyrics Matter and Peabody Institute.
Raiden (musician)
Raiden, real name Han Seok-hyun (한석현), is a South Korean DJ and producer who debuted in 2017, signed with SM Entertainment in 2019, and played the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics closing ceremony.
Raising Hell (album)
Raising Hell, Run-DMC's third album (Profile Records, May 1986), produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; first rap album to go platinum and 3x platinum, first hip-hop Grammy nominee, featuring Walk This Way with Aerosmith and My Adidas.
Raja Kumari
Raja Kumari, born Svetha Yallapragada Rao (1986), is an Indian-American rapper, singer and songwriter from Claremont, California, fusing hip-hop with Indian classical music; BMI Pop Award winner for Fall Out Boy's "Centuries," MTV Hustle judge, Godmother Records founder, and first Indian-origin AMA winner (2025).
Rakim
Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr., born 1968, Wyandanch, New York; Rakim Allah) is an American rapper, the MC of Eric B. & Rakim, whose Paid in Full (1987) pioneered internal rhyme and multisyllabic flow; later a solo artist with The 18th Letter and The Master.
Ralphie Choo
Ralphie Choo is the stage name of Juan Casado Fisac, a Spanish singer and producer from Madrid whose debut album Supernova was released in 2023.
Ramirez (rapper)
Ramirez (Ivan Ramirez, born 1998) is a San Francisco rapper, also known as RVMIRXZ, who blends West Coast rap, cloud rap, and Southern trap; he was the first artist on G*59 Records and left the label in June 2025.
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German industrial metal band that formed in Berlin in 1994. The group is known for its Neue Deutsche Härte style and over 20 million records sold worldwide.
Ramon Tapia
Ramon Tapia (born 1979) is a Dutch-Chilean techno producer and DJ based in Antwerp, Belgium, known for his 2008 breakthrough "Sweet Lullaby" and for founding Say What? Recordings in 2012.
Randall
DJ Randall, born Randall McNeil, was a British jungle and drum & bass DJ from east London who helped steer acid house into jungle and died in 2024.
Randall's Island (music)
Randall's Island is a park in New York City's East River, best known in EDM as home of the Electric Zoo festival, which ran from 2009 to 2023.