Artist's albums
Purpose
2023 · album
Something in My Soul
2022 · single
Fire In My Soul (An Acoustic Experience)
2022 · album
Lift Me Up
2022 · single
Bury 'Em Deep
2022 · single
Crazy 80's Babies
2021 · album
Watch the Signs
2020 · album
3rd Eye View
2019 · album
Growth
2019 · album
For My People
2017 · album
Thug Brothers 3
2017 · album
The Strong Survive
2017 · single
Powerful
2016 · album
The Code
2016 · album
Do It from tha Heart - Single
2015 · single
Thug Brothers
2015 · album
Finish Line (feat. Rise Sovereign)
2015 · single
The Year of the Underdogz
2013 · album
Fast Life
2013 · album
Son of God
2012 · album
Son of God - Single
2012 · single
Outlaw Rydahz
2012 · album
Noble Justice: The Lost Songs
2010 · album
Thug In Thug Out
2007 · album
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Biography
West Coast rapper Young Noble was born Rufus Cooper III in Sierra Madre, California on March 31, 1978. Cooper's early years were tumultuous, with troubles in family life as well as run-ins with the law. After relocating to New Jersey as a teenager, he spent several years selling drugs while trying to take steps toward a career as a professional basketball player. This winding path found Cooper in and out of school and juvenile detention centers, as well as ping-ponging between New Jersey and California. In the midst of this chaos, he began rapping under the name Young Noble. While living with his sister in California and trying to get his life back on track, he received a call from some friends who were recording with Tupac in Los Angeles. Cooper met Tupac at the studio and soon after joined on full-time as part of his group the Outlawz. Though Tupac was fatally shot not long after, Young Noble's studio contributions to his albums were still plentiful, with guest appearances beginning on 1996's Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory and continuing through the years as unreleased posthumous recordings were unearthed. The Outlawz soldiered on after Tupac's death, releasing a string of albums including 1999's Still I Rise, 2000's Ride wit Us or Collide wit Us, and 2001's Novakane. In 2002 he released his first solo album, Noble Justice. Young Noble stayed active with the Outlawz over the next decade and beyond, but also worked steadily on his solo output as well as many collaborations. In 2006 he worked with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Layzie Bone on the joint effort Thug Brothers, and throughout the aughts released mixtapes and collaborative albums with artists like Lil' Flip, Hussein Fatal, and Deuce Deuce of Concrete Mob. In 2012 he offered up his second solo album, Son of God, which he followed in 2016 with Powerful. Krayzie Bone took the place of Layzie Bone for the next two Thug Brothers installments, Thug Brothers 2 and Thug Brothers 3, released within months of each other in late 2017. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi