Obie Trice & Nate Dogg

Detroit rapper Obie Trice came up in his city's vibrant turn-of-the-century rap scene as an affiliate of Eminem's, easily the biggest success story in Detroit hip-hop. His irreverent, rough-neck style was in line with the raw, take-no-prisoners style of Motor City peers like D12 and Royce da 5' 9". This style was in full force on his hungry 2003 debut studio album Cheers, released on Eminem's Shady Records. Obie Trice was born in 1977 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He began rapping at a young age when his mother bought him a karaoke machine that he used to rap over the beat...