T-Pain and Lil Wayne have owned the music scene over the past year: It seems as if T-Pain's voice has accented half the hits on urban radio, while Lil Wayne, another ubiquitous collaborator, has appeared on the rest.

T-Pain poses with his award for best collaboration for "Good Life" backstage at the BET Awards on Tuesday June 24, 2008 in Los Angeles.
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T-Pain transformed the BET Awards into a circus Tuesday with a multi-artist medley that showed the rapper and singer's wide-ranging influence on urban music, while best-selling rapper Lil Wayne and songstress Alicia Keys gave rousing performances of their own.

Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, left, and Dawn Robinson, right, perform with Alicia Keys at the BET Awards on Tuesday June 24, 2008 in Los Angeles.
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Alicia Keys has scrapped a concert in Cleveland after canceling her show in Pittsburgh earlier this week. A message posted on her Web site says the 27-year-old R&B singer has swollen vocal cords. She was scheduled to perform Thursday night at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center.

Singer Alicia Keys, left, performs on NBC's "Today Show" in Rockefeller Plaza, on Monday, April 21, 2008, in New York. At right is a backup singer.
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Alicia Keys' passion for that piano-feel made her change her name to then singer-song writer. Alicia Keys has gone on to establish herself by far as the current princess of R& B.

When Alanis Morissette needed to clear her head, she went to India. When Mariah Carey couldn't handle the pressure anymore, she went to a sanitarium. When Alicia Keys faced a near-breakdown, she went to Egypt. By herself. For three weeks.

When Alanis Morissette needed to clear her head, she went to India. When Mariah Carey couldn't handle the pressure anymore, she went to a sanitarium. When Alicia Keys faced a near-breakdown, she went to Egypt. By herself. For three weeks.