Ruggedman

Nigerian rapper, born on September 20 in Ehem, Abia State.

A graduate of political science from Lagos State University, Ojo, he started loving music in 1989. He had his own songs done in 1991 and released a CD, which had two tracks. The two songs got massive air play, but in 2002, Ruggedman felt Nigerian rappers (such as Rasqie, Eedris Abdulkareem, Maintain and many others) lacked talent and he needed to do something about it.

He was the most controversial musician at that time, which won him a lot of awards. One of his controversial tracks is Big Bros. This diss track was attacking the CEO's of Kennis Music, Keke Ogungbe and Dayo "D1" Adeneye. He also hit harder than anyone could have imagined when he said "the fact that you have (got) money doesn't mean you can toy with me" reasons being that he felt that the CEO's were politicizing the industry and barring other acts from proving their skills. He did not attack rappers such as Modenine, 2 Shotz, Freestyle, Six Foot+ possibly because he saw them as rappers who use words, because that was what he advised Edris Abdulkareem - "try use words, and u might sound nice, but not as precise as my guys you see in front of your eyes". He is from the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria, and was influenced by KRS-One, Dr. Dre, DMX, Eminem and many others.

He released an album entitled "Thy Album Come", and is now recording an album with Afro hip hop artist Faze . He is also been around the world including Dublin and Durban, South Africa. He is still considered by a larger proportion of Nigerians to be the best rapper ever to emerge from West Africa.

On March 3, 2007, he released his second album, "Ruggedy Baba", which includes the lead single Ruggedy Baba (featuring 9ice) and Club Rugged. It moved over 100,000 units after only three weeks of release.