On his debut album Blue Collar, Rhymefest draws on his years of less glamorous work.
The duo first worked together in 1996, the year Jay-Z released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt.
He recorded his debut album in the studio next door to the Fab Four while they recorded The White Album.
Jones has recently signed a five-album deal with Universal Classics, with his debut album due for release on 14 October.
The results bear that out: his debut album, Lace Up, hit stories in October and has sold over 125, 000 copies through January.
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Woon heads back out on the road in February and his debut album is scheduled for release in the spring through Polydor Records.
The London troubadour sold 500, 000 copies of his debut album Home Again around the world last year and was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
The short, unfussy songs on his debut album recall the straightforward rock of a simpler era - storming through 14 tracks in just 39 minutes.
With his debut album, 1989's West Textures, Keen set a template that he would stick to throughout his career: a blend of acoustic folk balladry and raucous barroom country.
Ipswich rapper DELS is also playing the Lake Stage, in what will be his first appearance in the county since the release of his debut album, GOB.
On his debut album, Hand Built by Robots, Faulkner covers bands as varied as Rusted Root and Massive Attack, using his trademark percussive style on acoustic guitar.
So from 1998 to 1999, Ludacris recorded and independently released his debut album, Incognegro, launching his own label, Disturbing Tha Peace, with his managers Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon.
James Durbin -- that mythical creature with the tail from season 10 -- returned with blonde ambition to scream "Higher Than Heaven, " off his debut album Memories of a Broken Disaster.
His debut album "Justified, " which spawned hits like "Rock Your Body, " "Cry Me a River, " and "Like I Love You, " soon became hot enough to land him on the biggest stage of all.
Other nominees include Maps - musician James Chapman - for We can Create, his debut album which he produced in his bedroom in Northampton, and Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan for The End of History.
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The 19-year-old rapper played over 200 shows around the country, pumped his Twitter following past 1.4 million and released his debut album, Blue Slide Park, which became the first indie offering to open at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in over a decade.
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After signing with Sugar Hill Records in 1997, he released his debut solo album Aloha From Nashville, which paved the path for his solo success in years to come.
Reilly also played guitar for Morrissey on his debut solo album, Viva Hate.
Michael Penn seemed like a budding superstar in 1989, when his outstanding debut album (March) and single ("No Myth") broke big.
Instrumental hip-hop artist and producer Ramble John Khron, better known as RJD2, emerged as an exciting new voice in hip-hop after the release of his 2002 debut album, Deadringer.
On 5 October, he releases his debut solo album - the Courtney Pine-produced From There to Here - followed by a launch event during London Jazz Festival in November.
Bugg has already topped the charts with his self-titled debut album, and his single Lightning Bolt was used to soundtrack Usain Bolt's Olympic victories.
" Junk" (audio) from his self-titled debut solo album has always been one of my favorites.
West recorded Jesus Walks - a track Rhymefest had written - for his multi-platinum 2004 debut album.
Muscles rolls out a variety of delightful, often-wordless shouts that inform his style throughout the 2007 debut album, Guns Babes Lemonade.
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Forbes estimates that Cook generated the bulk of his income from the 1.1 million copies sold of his self-titled major label debut album.
James Morrison's debut album Undiscovered made him a star in his native U.K. last summer, and the disc's release here portends similarly big things: Mixing the smoky soul of Terence Trent D'Arby with the catchy crooning of James Blunt, the 22-year-old is nothing if not commercially viable.
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