J. Dash

At the age of eight, Jacksonville, Florida native J. Dash was capable of playing Mozart compositions on the piano. By age 13, he was in a band. Eventually, he took up producing and rhyming, and released his first two albums in 2006 and 2007. A few years later, the second album's "WOP" gained some traction and prompted him to retool the song. He released this new version on Tabloid Truth in 2012. In 2013, the reach of "WOP" extended -- propelled by a popular official video and many unofficial videos, the single entered Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart a second time and reached the Top 15. All the while, the University of Florida graduate kept his birth name a secret. ~ Andy Kellman