Question: When was the person who sang "Hit 'Em Up Style" born?
Context: The Cotton (Japanese: コットン , Hepburn: Kotton ) series is a line of shoot 'em up video game software developed by Success with a long history of releases both in arcades and on home video game consoles.  With the series debuting in 1991, the Cotton games have helped to establish the visual style of shoot 'em ups sometimes called "cute 'em up".  Instead of warships and battlefields typical of most shoot 'em ups, Cotton games put players in control of a witch riding on a broom and tasks them with fighting through magical haunted kingdoms.  Cotton games have appeared on a variety of consoles including the PC Engine, the Super Famicom, the Mega Drive, the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and the Dreamcast.  There is also a pachinko game featuring Cotton available for the PlayStation 2.  Cotton appears as a hidden character in the Nintendo DS game "Rondo of Swords". "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)"  is the debut single by American R&B singer Blu Cantrell, written and produced by Dallas Austin and featured on Cantrell's debut album, "So Blu" (2001). Hell on Earth is the third studio album by East Coast hip hop group Mobb Deep, which was first released on November 19, 1996, on Loud/RCA/BMG Records.  The album is largely a continuation of Mobb Deep's previous album, the critically acclaimed "The Infamous".  The album is produced by Mobb Deep and also features guest appearances by emcees Nas, Raekwon, Method Man, and frequent collaborator Big Noyd.  The album stands out for its acclaimed singles "G.O.D. Pt.  III" and "Hell on Earth (Front Lines)," as well as "Drop a Gem on 'Em," a response to 2Pac's diss track "Hit 'Em Up."  A promotional single, "Still Shinin'", was released earlier that year and later added to the album.  The album, one of the earliest enhanced CDs, also contains an additional track ("In the Long Run") that at the time, had to be unlocked with the use of a computer. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is the fourth album by Akron/Family.  It was released on May 5, 2009 by Dead Oceans Records (and in Europe by Crammed Discs).  On February 15, 2009 "Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free" leaked on the internet. Greek hold 'em (originally known as tight hold 'em) is a community card poker game variant of Texas hold 'em which transitioned into the evolution of Omaha hold 'em.  Greek hold 'em combines the rules of Texas hold 'em and current day Omaha hold 'em.  In professional poker player Doyle Brunson's book, "Super/System", this version of poker was referred to as tight hold 'em. Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb; March 16, 1976) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter. "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" is the title of a number-one R&B single by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam from their 1991 album "Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen".  The song spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart (September 14, 1991), reaching #37 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  On the US dance charts, "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" was the third and final number one for the group.  One year later, a Dutch duo produced a 3:40 long remix.  There is also an unrelated song with the same title which has appeared in Konami's various Bemani music games. Annihilate 'em (April 11, 1970 – November 20, 1989) was a U.S. thoroughbred race horse who was best known for winning the 1973 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.  Annihilate 'em was ridden to victory in the Travers by Ron Turcotte, who originally planned to ride Triple Crown winner Secretariat in the race.  However, Secretariat missed the race due to poor health after losing the Whitney Stakes to Onion two weeks earlier while running with a low-grade fever.  Annihilate 'Em and Secretariat met in their only race together in the Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap in September 1973, where Secretariat finished first and Annihilate 'Em finished fifth. The phrase "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" or "Smoke if you got 'em" is slang for "do what you want, if you have the means".  The first phrase was popular in the military during World War II, meaning to take a break.  Officers would say "Smoke 'em if you got 'em", allowing the soldiers to take a break and smoke their cigarettes. "if you got' em" referred to the vagaries of war.  Cigarettes were nearly impossible to get in Europe during that time, because of the deprivations of the war.  Along with nylons for women, cigarettes were a luxury item that took on cultural importance beyond their monetary value.  Soldiers got a daily allotment of cigarettes with their K ration, the 1940s version of MREs.  Not all soldiers smoked and therefore unsmoked cigarettes became a War Department currency.  They traded freely across all borders and social classes.  Seventy-five years later the phrase is a touchstone used in all media to evoke a former heroic period. Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em is an erotic pornographic video game for the Atari 2600 by Mystique in 1982.  Distribution was handled by American Multiple Industries until distribution changed to Game Source.  Players control two nude women; the goal is to catch sperm falling from a masturbating man on a rooftop without missing.  Its gameplay has been compared to the Atari game "Kaboom! ".  There is also a gender-reversed version of the game titled Philly Flasher that features identical gameplay.  "Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em" has received negative reception since its release and is an oft-cited example of pornographic Atari 2600 games.
Answer: March 16, 1976