Becoming ... Queen Latifah

See how the Taxi star went from teen rapper to Oscar-nominated actress. By Serena Kappes

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Latifah performs a song from The Dana Owens Album, her first all-sung CD, on the Today show in September. The rapper (who used her given name for the record's title) had sung on her hip-hop records and covered some standards on the soundtrack to her 1998 film Living Out Loud, but a complete album of classics is a first for her.