# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/evidence
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:45:06.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/evidence"
name: "Evidence"
slug: "evidence"
description: "Michael Taylor Perretta, known professionally as Evidence, is an American rapper and record producer from Venice, Los Angeles, California. He is also a member of the group Dilated Peoples, as well as being one-half of Step Brothers with the Alchemist. Evidence was included in the nomination for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year because of his production work on the Kanye West debut album The College Dropout."
tagline: "American MC, producer, and member of the rap group Dilated Peoples"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Evidence_of_Dilated_Peoples_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1976-12-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             0.8468526930564568
  historical:           8.853681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/evidence"
    handle:    "evidence"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/evidence/"
    handle:    "evidence"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/misterevidence"
    handle:    "misterevidence"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xdhZr7itYzrXzBPyOebNU"
    handle:    "2xdhZr7itYzrXzBPyOebNU"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.therealevidence.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/44391"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "اڤيدينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence"
    title: "Evidence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(musician)"
    title: "Evidence (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(rappeur)"
    title: "Evidence (rappeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(rapper)"
    title: "Evidence (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence"
    title: "Evidence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(rapper)"
    title: "Evidence (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence"
    title: "Evidence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/995c1ef8-5a55-40dc-b87f-f4a0ee95650b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1237694"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump