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2 | [[caption-width-right:250:All Hail the Queen]] |
3 | Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), better known by her stage name '''Queen Latifah''', is an American rapper, actor and singer. Queen Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination, and an Academy Award nomination. She was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Rita (née Bray), a schoolteacher who worked at Irvington High School, and Lancelot Owens, Sr., a police officer. |
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5 | She started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, a crew of Emcees grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James, aka "DJ Mark the 45 King", made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap "Princess of the Posse". He gave the recording to the host of ''Yo! MTV Raps'', Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". |
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7 | !!Notable songs |
8 | |
9 | * "Ladies First" |
10 | * "Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here" |
11 | * "U.N.I.T.Y." |
12 | * "Black Hand Side" |
13 | * "Just Another Day..." |
14 | * "I Can't Understand" |
15 | * "[[ClusterFBomb Name Callin']]" |
16 | |
17 | ---- |
18 | !!Discography |
19 | |
20 | * 1989: ''All Hail the Queen'' |
21 | * 1991: ''Nature of a Sista'' |
22 | * 1993: ''Black Reign'' |
23 | * 1998: ''Order in the Court'' |
24 | * 2004: ''The Dana Owens Album'' |
25 | * 2007: ''Trav'lin' Light'' |
26 | * 2009: ''Persona'' |
27 | |
28 | ---- |
29 | !!Works Latifah has appeared in: |
30 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' (1991) as Marissa Redman, Dee Dee |
31 | * ''Film/JungleFever'' (1991) as Waitress |
32 | * ''Film/HouseParty 2'' (1991) as Zora |
33 | * ''Film/{{Juice}}'' (1992) as Ruffhouse M.C. |
34 | * ''Film/MyLife'' (1993) as Theresa |
35 | * ''Series/LivingSingle'' (1993-1998) as Khadijah James |
36 | * ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (1994) as herself |
37 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' (1995) as herself (voice) |
38 | * ''Film/SetItOff'' (1996) as Cleopatra "Cleo" Sims |
39 | * ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' (1997) as herself |
40 | * ''Film/{{Hoodlum}}'' (1997) as Sulie |
41 | * ''Literature/{{Sphere}}'' (1998) as Alice "Teeny" Fletcher |
42 | * ''Film/LivingOutLoud'' (1998) as Liz Bailey |
43 | * ''Film/TheBoneCollector'' (1999) as Nurse Thelma |
44 | * ''Film/BringingOutTheDead'' (1999) as Dispatcher Love (voice) |
45 | * ''Series/SpinCity'' (2001) as Robin Jones |
46 | * ''Film/TheCountryBears'' (2002) as herself, Cha-Cha |
47 | * ''Film/{{Pinocchio|2002}}'' (2002) as Dove (voice; English dub) |
48 | * ''Film/{{Chicago}}'' (2002) as Matron Mama Morton |
49 | * ''Film/BringingDownTheHouse'' (2003) as Charlene Morton |
50 | * ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'' (2003) as Aunt Shaneequa / The Oracle |
51 | * ''Film/{{Barbershop}} 2: Back in Business'' (2004) as Gina Norris |
52 | ** ''Film/BeautyShop'' (2005) |
53 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (2004) as Pam Dromeda (voice) |
54 | * ''Film/{{Taxi|2004}}'' (2004) as Isabelle "Belle" Williams |
55 | * ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' (2005) as Aunt Em |
56 | * ''Film/LastHoliday'' (2006) as Georgia Byrd |
57 | * ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' (2006) as Ellie (voice) |
58 | ** ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' (2009) |
59 | ** ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' (2012) |
60 | ** ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' (2016) |
61 | * ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' (2006) as Penny Escher |
62 | * ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'' (2007) as "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs |
63 | * ''Film/MadMoney'' (2008) as Nina Brewster |
64 | * ''Film/WhatHappensInVegas'' (2008) as Dr. Twitchell |
65 | * ''Literature/TheSecretLifeOfBees'' (2008) as August Boatwright |
66 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (2008) as Gwen Ifill |
67 | * ''Film/ValentinesDay'' (2010) as Paula Thomas |
68 | * ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' (2010) as herself |
69 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'' (2010) as Regina Bookman |
70 | * ''Film/TheDilemma'' (2011) as Susan Warner |
71 | * ''Film/JoyfulNoise'' (2012) as Vi Rose Hill |
72 | * ''Film/SteelMagnolias'' (2012) as Mary Lynn "M'Lynn" Eatenton |
73 | * ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' (2014) as Sweet Brown |
74 | * ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' (2014) as Mrs. Dickson |
75 | * ''Series/HotInCleveland'' (2014) as Aunt Esther Jean Johnson |
76 | * ''Bessie'' (2015) as Music/BessieSmith |
77 | * ''[[Theatre/TheWiz The Wiz Live!]]'' (2015) as The Wiz |
78 | * ''[[Series/LeeDanielsStar STAR]]'' (2016-19) as Carlotta Brown |
79 | * ''Film/GirlsTrip'' (2017) as Sasha Franklin |
80 | * ''Film/{{Flint}}'' (2017) as Iza Banks |
81 | * ''VideoGame/SayonaraWildHearts'' (2019) as Narrator (voice) |
82 | * ''Series/{{Hollywood|2020}}'' (2020) as Creator/HattieMcDaniel |
83 | * ''Series/{{The Equalizer|2021}}'' (2021-present) as Robyn [=McCall=] |
84 | * ''WesternAnimation/MayaAndTheThree'' (2021) as the Gran Bruja (voice) |
85 | * ''The Tiger Rising'' (2022) as Willie May |
86 | * ''Film/{{Hustle|2022}}'' (2022) as Teresa Sugerman |
87 | ---- |
88 | !!! "All Hail the Queen's Tropes": |
89 | * [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]] |
90 | * BigBeautifulWoman: Her ''Chicago'' character provides the page image. She has slimmed down considerably in recent years, but she's still curvy enough to have this trope apply to her. Especially the "beautiful" part. |
91 | * CanonDiscontinuity: Her early albums aren't easy to find in stores. |
92 | * CoverAlbum: ''The Dana Owens Album,'' ''Trav'lin' Light''. |
93 | * ClusterFBomb: "Name Callin'" features Latifah cursing almost every other word. And it's quite sexy, really. |
94 | * HipHop |
95 | ** UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop |
96 | %%* [[IKnowKarate I Know Kickboxing]] |
97 | * JazzRap: Like the rest of the Native Tongues, Latifiah's first three albums were heavily drenched in jazz samples and influence. She'd drop the rapping after the turn of the millennium, and recorded straight jazz standards for her next two. |
98 | * Letters2Numbers: "Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here," "Listen 2 Me," |
99 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething |
100 | * SelfTitledAlbum: ''The Dana Owens Album'' |
101 | * StatuesqueStunner: As the intro notes, she's 5'10 and quite attractive. |
102 | * {{Supergroup}}: Latifah's a charter member of both the Flavor Unit (45 King, Apache, Lakim Shabazz, etc) and the Native Tongues (Music/DeLaSoul, [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest ATCQ]], Jungle Brothers, etc) collectives, and one of the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple few female emcees in either group]]. Latifah eventually became the leader of Flavor Unit after drug addiction took its toll on the 45 King. |
103 | * {{Sitcom}}: ''Series/LivingSingle'', ''Series/ThirtyRock'' |
104 | * SpellingSong: "U.N.I.T.Y." |
105 | * TakeThat: |
106 | ** "I Can't Understand" and "Rough" from ''Black Reign'' were responses to Roxanne Shantaé's diss to her on the latter's track "Big Lady": |
107 | ---> ''You don't wanna be a sista' in the name of rap\ |
108 | And yet you wanna talk shit and your style is wack\ |
109 | I would have squashed it before and made the whole issue dead\ |
110 | But now I'm fed, so it's off with your head\ |
111 | Now, the moral of the verse is your career is through\ |
112 | And don't be fuckin' with nobody who ain't fuckin' with you\ |
113 | If I was in yo shoes I'd let the BS start walkin'\ |
114 | Next time there might not be no talkin'''. |
115 | ** "Name Callin'" was allegedly a [[StealthInsult subliminal diss]] towards Foxy Brown. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGXdqOoBiY Part 2]] was recorded after Brown released a homophobic diss towards Latifah in response to the first. [[note]]Latifah's sexuality has been questioned since at least the late '90s, though she would finally come out in 2021.[[/note]] |
116 | ---> ''I don't spit subliminals no doubt\ |
117 | This way you don't walk around wondering who the fuck I'm talkin' bout'\ |
118 | I'm not trippin', I heard you rippin'\ |
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