On this day in 1989, Dana Owens, better known to the world as Queen Latifah, made her groundbreaking debut with All Hail the Queen, released on Tommy Boy Records. The album not only marked the arrival ...

35 years ago, hip-hop got a new queen. Queen Latifah released her debut album, All Hail the Queen, in November 1989, and today, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison talks about how that album shook ...

At a young age, Dana Owens strutted with a regality that was contagious. She gave herself the name Queen Latifah (Latifah is an arabic name meaning delicate and kind) and demanded respect for ...

There’s something to be said about a woman who dubs herself a queen. For Dana Owens, doing so was only fitting, given that her mother instilled in the star the drive to establish the very queendom we ...

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress, and singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and ...