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Tough girl rapper Eve is hip hop's ultimate tom boy-there she is, hanging out on the corner living it up with her boys on a Friday night. You know you don't wanna go disrespecting her. But you probably think you have to mind your manners so those 4 big guys who always follow her around don't feel like they have to teach you. And that's where you're wrong, because the street tough Eve will be the first one to show you how to treat a lady, never mind her male friends. Eve had already earned the nickname "Gangsta" while attending high school in Philadelphia and she was part of an all-girl crew EDGP (pronounce it "Egypt.") Her solo stage name was originally "Eve of Destruction," but she ultimately shortened it to Eve. Eve found work as a stripper before fellow rapper Ma$e convinced her to try rapping instead. Her first solo track was "Eve of Destruction" on the hip hop classic soundtrack to Warren Beaty's 1998 dark comedy Bulworth. The track got her attention-girls in the rap world were even scarcer then-and she was signed to Aftermath Records. Unfortunately, Aftermath suffered financially and had to close. But Eve befriended gravel-voiced rapper DMX and scored another standout track on the remix of his hit single "Ruff Ryder Anthem." The title of her 1999 album Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryders First Lady just about says it all-the disc was an unprecedented success and only the second album by a female rapper to debut at #1 (the first was Foxy Brown.) Eve also knows how to pick her girlfriends, and she's had big hits with Alicia Keys ("Gangsta Lovin'") and Gwen Stefani ("Let Me Blow Ya Mind.")

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