Eve Jihan JeffersCooper is an American hip hop recording artist and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best RapSung Collaboration in 2002, for the song Let Me Blow Ya Mind, with American singer Gwen Stefani. Eve was number 48 on VH1s 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era list.
Eve was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Julie Wilch, a publishing company supervisor, and Jerry Jeffers, a chemical plant supervisor. She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of an allfemale group called EDGP
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