Kurupt

• Birth name:

  Ricardo Emmanuel Brown

• Date of Birth:

  23 November 1972 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Kurupt was born Ricardo Brown in Philadelphia, Pa. He moved to Long Beach, California where he met and befriended such rappers as Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger. He worked as a rapper on Death Row Records (Label run by Suge Knight) releasing one album with Daz Dillinger titled Tha Dogg Pound (selling 4 million copies to date) and appeared on such west coast classics as All Eyes On Me, Doggystyle, and The Chronic (all released on Death Row Records) He later went to a new label based out of his hometown of P... more

Kurupt was born Ricardo Brown in Philadelphia, Pa. He moved to Long Beach, California where he met and befriended such rappers as Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger. He worked as a rapper on Death Row Records (Label run by Suge Knight) releasing one album with Daz Dillinger titled Tha Dogg Pound (selling 4 million copies to date) and appeared on such west coast classics as All Eyes On Me, Doggystyle, and The Chronic (all released on Death Row Records) He later went to a new label based out of his hometown of Philly titled Antra Entertainment. He released 3 albums on this label all outselling each other as they were released. While running into financial difficulties, and trying to support his family, he went back to Death Row Records (now Tha Row) where he sits as the Executive Vice Pres. of the company and makes movies in his spare time. He was once engaged to Foxy Brown and Natina Reed member of (Blaque) before gave birth to their son named Trey (b. 2002) and he lives with his fiancée Gail Gotti is a female artist.