From the city of Newark New Jersey, Queen Latifah was born to a school teacher and a police officer. She would be raised in a Baptist church although her parents would divorce by the time she was age ten. She was both an athlete as well as a performer in high school where she played a forward on the basketball team as well as performing in a musical called The Wiz. She would begin with a small group playing in a localized manner but would later get her big break when one of her demos was given to the host of Yo MTV Raps by the name of Fab Five Freddy. The single would be called Queen of the Posse and would change her life forever.

Queen Latifah

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as a learning experience