Photo: Theladyluck · CC BY-SA 3.0 · credits
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Lady Luck
Person · female · United States · Englewood · born 1983
American rapper
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography151 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366451707
Biography
Shanell Ayana Jones (born December 7, 1981), better known by her stage name Lady Luck, is an American rapper from Englewood, New Jersey. She signed a five-album record deal with Def Jam worth between half a million and a million dollars at the age of 17 on the strength of several freestyles that she did for New York radio station WQHT-FM. Luck was featured in The New Yorker and a series of articles in The Source, which ran monthly installments on her career. 2020 she became a music supervisor, winning an Emmy Award.
Luck was featured in the 2000 documentary film of Jay-Z's 1999 tour, Backstage. In 2017, she was a cast member on the reality show, First Family of Hip Hop on Bravo TV.Her single "STROKE" which was released on the television show went Platinum online. In 2023, she released "Praise."
She is of Puerto Rican and African American descent.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Lady Luck head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Luck_march_2012_%28cropped%29.JPGcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6470365genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6470365seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Luck_%28rapper%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Luck_%28rapper%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Theladyluck · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6470365 · MusicBrainz: 8ec9a41c-9857-458b-9619-3e14dc5321fe
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