Did you know that Heavy D,Busta rhymes and Biggie Smalls all have jamaican Heritage and born in may

Biggie smalls

Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let’s Do It Again).

Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. When Wallace released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip-hop scene and increased New York’s visibility at a time when West Coast artists were more common in the mainstream.The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the East Coast/West Coast hip-hop feud, dominating the scene at the time.

On March 9, 1997, Wallace was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. His double-disc set Life After Death, released 15 days later, hit #1 on the U.S. album charts and was certified Diamond in 2000 (one of the few hip hop albums to receive this certification).Wallace was noted for his “loose, easy flow”,dark semi-autobiographical lyrics and storytelling abilities. Since his death, a further two albums have been released. MTV ranked him at #3 on their list of The Greatest MCs (Rappers) of All Time. He has certified sales of 17 million units in the United States.

Early life

Born in St. Mary’s Hospital, despite later claiming to be raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Wallace grew up in neighboring Clinton Hill. Wallace was the only child of Voletta Wallace, a Jamaican preschool teacher, and George Latore, a welder and small-time Jamaican politician.His father left the family when Wallace was two years old, leaving his mother to work two jobs while raising him. At the Queen of All Saints Middle School, Wallace excelled in class, winning several awards as an English student. He was nicknamed “Big” because of his size before he turned 10

Heavy D

Heavy D

Dwight Arrington Myers (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), “Trouble” T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released were produced by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, his cousin Pete Rock and Eddie
Myers was born on May 24, 1967 in Mandeville, Jamaica, the son of Eulahlee Lee, a nurse, and Clifford Vincent Myers, a machine technician. His family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, in the early 1970s, where he was raised.

Busta Rhymes

Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., (born May 20, 1972),better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George “Buster” Rhymes. Early in his career, he was known for his wild style and fashion, and today is best known for his intricate rapping technique, which involves rapping at a fast rate with lots of internal rhyme and half rhyme, and to date has received eleven Grammy nominations for his musical work. About.com included him on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987–2007),while Steve Huey of Allmusic called him one of the best and most prolific rappers of the ’90s.

Busta was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, to Jamaican parents Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith, Sr. in 1972. Smith attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, alongside Jay-Z, DMX and The Notorious B.I.G . He went to Uniondale High School on Long Island, graduating in 1990.

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Losing our most enterprising people

Courtesy Jamaica Observer

We don't join those who think that migration is necessarily a bad thing. Moreover, we believe that it would be great if Jamaica can train persons for the international labour market.

What we are more worried about is losing the people on whom this country should rely for advancing its development. If a country loses too many of its most enterprising, it cannot achieve its full potential for economic development.

Jamaica has not attained and sustained real economic growth since the boom of 1960s. While many factors undoubtedly contributed to this sad and discouraging state of affairs, the loss of a significant share of our most enterprising people is definitely an important cause of our prolonged economic malaise.

The late Guyanese intellectual, Walter Rodney argued persuasively that Europe undeveloped Africa because it removed such a large part of its labour force through slavery into the New World, causing the continent's economies and societies to collapse. Hundreds of years later Africa has still not recovered.

Jamaica has seen a haemorrhaging its human capital on a massive scale since the late 19th Century. This has a profound and deleterious impact on our economy and society. Neither the platitude of brain drain nor the palliative of remittances are conceptually capable of grasping the unquantifiable aspect of losing a substantial number of our most enterprising people.

Enterprising, of course, is not to be confused with skills or brains or qualification. It is an attitude which encompasses hard work, creative survival, ambition and ingenuity.

The proof is the outstanding record of achievements of Jamaicans in foreign countries. West Indians, along with Asians and Jews, have repeatedly been documented as the highest achievers among all migrant groups in the US and have outperformed US-born groups, especially African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.

Jamaicans succeed abroad because of their attitude of enterprise. The demonstration of this enterprise is to organise the resources and visas to migrate from the familiar and the family to the different and difficult. They survive and thrive in different climates and cultures working two, sometimes three jobs. They accomplish despite prejudice, racism and xenophobia. This is good news of which we can all be proud.
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But there is a down side. The loss to Jamaica is that these are the type of people that would be the driving force of economic development. In many instances, it is the most enterprising people who have the courage and competence to migrate and hence Jamaica is left to rely on a mixture of the depleted ranks of the enterprising and the less enterprising. The former stay by choice but have to pull along a disproportionate weight of the latter, namely the less enterprising.

We are losing too large a share of the most enterprising Jamaicans to be able to meet the human capital requirements for economic development but more important the spirit and culture of enterprise is what Jamaica needs to succeed in the 21st Century. If they could be induced to return in large numbers they would reinvigorate the culture of enterprise which is so lacking in our economy and society.

The appeal to patriotism will not be enough nor will remittances substitute for their presence. Jamaica needs their social energy, economic enterprise, work ethic and constructive example.