Lil' Cease

While Lil' Cease never collected solo trophies, his place in hip-hop history is secure. As a core member of Junior M.A.F.I.A., he helped define the mid-90s East Coast sound and was part of a Platinum-selling album that still gets streamed millions of times annually. His firsthand presence at the center of the Bad Boy era, from the studio sessions to the tragedy in Los Angeles, makes him an irreplaceable witness to one of hip-hop's most storied chapters.