Eve (rapper)

In 2004, Eve appeared alongside Kevin Bacon in The Woodsman. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. Officially Eve is a part of Aftermath Entertainment, but she is still signed to the Ruff Ryders management company. In 1975 a court awarded Diodati the right to the name in a court suit in which the original members tried to establish their right. Dre is the executive producer to the album. Eventually the group broke up, but Diodati still has a group which he calls the Four Aces, though it contains none of the original members. Dr. He was replaced as lead singer by Fred Diodati, who had attended South Philadelphia High School a few years after Alberts.

Eve is working on her fourth solo album on Aftermath Entertainment. Alberts, however, left the group in 1956 to try to make it as a soloist, but never made the charts. The owner tried to blackmail money from her with the pictures. They played locally in the Philadelphia area, and Alberts started his own record label, Victoria Records, when they could not find a distributor to release their first record, (It's No) Sin. It sold a million copies, and Decca Records soon signed the group, billing them as The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts.. In the summer of 2003, there were some nude pictures that surfaced online that were allegedly of Eve in a sexual pose with another woman, taken about eight years before, when she was a stripper. Originally, Alberts sang with Mahoney playing behind him, and later they added Vaccaro on trumpet and Silvestri on drums. "Gangsta Lovin'", with Alicia Keys, became another pop hit and Eve closed out 2003 by signing to UPN for a television show about a fashion designer. Alberts went to South Philadelphia High School, Temple University, and the United States Navy, where he met Mahoney.

She released Eve-Olution, her third album, in 2002. The original members were Al Alberts (originally Albertini), Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sol" Vaccaro. They all came from Chester, Pennsylvania. Eve then appeared in XXX with Vin Diesel and in Barbershop with Ice Cube. The Four Aces were a pop singing group. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Scorpion went platinum. The follow-up, Scorpion, was released in 2001 to good reviews, but the second single, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (with Gwen Stefani of No Doubt) became a pop success.

Her 1999 debut was Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders First Lady and the album was an unprecedented success, the first rap album by a woman to enter the American charts at #1. Her single "What Ya Want" soon became a hit, and she collaborated with The Roots and Blackstreet and Janet Jackson, further expanding her fanbase. She had, however, befriended DMX and appeared on It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and other Ruff Ryders' compilations. Her label, Aftermath Records, found itself in financial trouble and Eve was soon without a record contract.

After a period of working as a stripper, Eve returned to hip hop at the encouragement of pop superstar Mase; she recorded "Eve of Destruction", which appeared on the soundtrack to Bulworth in 1998 (see 1998 in music). She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of an all-female group called EDGP (pronounced Egypt) and eventually went solo as Eve of Destruction. Eve (born Eve Jihan Jeffers on November 10, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rapper associated with the Ruff Ryders crew.