Question: Tha Smokin' Nephew, featuring singles such as "Shorty DooWop" and "Suga Suga", was the first major label album by which rapper?

Context articles: Fall from Grace (band)
Consent to Treatment
The Features, Vol. 1
Tha Smokin' Nephew
Suga Suga
Big Blue Sky (The Northern Pikes album)
Lil Wayne albums discography
Gift (Taproot album)
Gin Blossoms
Baby Bash

Fall From Grace is an American alternative rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle, Washington.
 The band is best known for winning Fuse TV's reality show "Bodog Music Battle of the Bands" and winning a one million dollar recording contract with Bodog Music.
 Fall From Grace beat out over 7000 bands; ten of which they toured with for the prize.
 Those bands included new Bodog artists Boston's Fear Nuttin' Band, Miami's Big Bang Radio, Dallas's Ashmore, Houston's Subversa, Atlanta's The Mood, Minneapolis's Leroy Smokes, Los Angeles's Blaxmyth, Phoenix's Idle Red, San Francisco's Strifer, and Philadelphia's Burn Down All Stars.
 The band released their first major label album, "Sifting Through the Wreckage", in 2008, and toured with Alesana to support the album.
 The album includes the singles "Pictures On The Wall" and "Last Straw".
Consent to Treatment is the second album by Blue October.
 It was recorded at Bay 7 Studios in Valley Village and Media Vortex in Burbank, California with producer Nick Launay, and released in the United States May 15, 2000, by Universal Records.
 It is the band's first major label album and their only album to feature former member Brant Coulter on guitar as well as their first album featuring Matt Noveskey.
 The opening track is a spoken word poem written by Justin Furstenfeld and recited by Blue Miller.
 Ryan Smith sings the female backing vocals on "The Answer" and "Balance Beam."
The Features, Vol.
 1 is the first compilation album by rapper Suga Free, it was released on August 22, 2006.
 The album features songs that Suga Free has appeared on throughout the 1998-2006.
Tha Smokin' Nephew is the first major label studio album by the rapper Baby Bash and his third album overall.
 Released by Universal Records, it entered the "Billboard" 200 at number 48.
 Five months after its release, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.
 By March 2005, the album had sold 531,000 copies in the United States.
"Suga Suga" is a song recorded by American rapper Baby Bash, featuring Frankie J.
 It was released in August 2003 as the second and final single from his album "Tha Smokin' Nephew".
 It is Baby Bash's highest-charting song at number seven, on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and charted on many international ranking, including number one in New Zealand.
Big Blue Sky is the first major label album by The Northern Pikes released in 1987.
 It featured two hit Canadian singles - "Teenland" and "Things I Do for Money".
 The album was certified Gold in Canada by the Canadian Recording Industry Association on December 24, 1987.
American rapper Lil Wayne has released eleven studio albums, one collaborative album, three compilation albums, one extended play, and twenty mixtapes. Wayne made his album debut in 1999, with "Tha Block Is Hot", which was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
 His later albums, "Lights Out" released in 2000, and "500 Degreez", released in 2002, attracted minor attention.
 In 2004, he released the first of his infamous "Carter" series, with "Tha Carter".
 In 2005, "Tha Carter II" was released.
 In 2006, Wayne released a collaborative album with rapper Birdman, titled "Like Father, Like Son".
 In 2008, Wayne released his best-selling album so far, titled "Tha Carter III".
 Certified triple platinum by the RIAA, "Tha Carter III" won the Best Rap Album award at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
 Lil Wayne founded record label Young Money Entertainment and released a collaborative album featuring rappers signed to the label, "We Are Young Money", in 2009, followed by his debut rock music album "Rebirth" in 2010.
 While serving an 8-month prison sentence in New York he released another album entitled "I Am Not a Human Being", in September 2010.
 The latest addition to "Tha Carter" series, "Tha Carter IV", was released on August 29, 2011.
 In 2013, Wayne released a sequel to his 2010 album "I Am Not a Human Being", titled "I Am Not a Human Being II", followed by two compilation albums with his labels, "Rich Gang (2013)", and " (2014)".
Gift is the first major label album by the rock group Taproot.
 It was released on June 27, 2000.
 "I" and "Again & Again" were minor Mainstream Rock singles.
 The album has sold at least 250,000 copies.
Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona.
 They first came to notice with the song "Hey Jealousy" from their first major label album, "New Miserable Experience" (1992), but this achievement was coupled with the removal and eventual suicide of the song's author and band co-founder Doug Hopkins, prompting the title of their follow-up album, "Congratulations I'm Sorry" (1996).
 After a series of charting singles, the band broke up in 1997.
 They reunited in 2002 and released a fourth album, "Major Lodge Victory", in 2006, and a fifth, "No Chocolate Cake", in 2010.
Ronald Ray Bryant, better known by his stage name Baby Bash (formerly Baby Beesh), is an American rapper.
 From 1995–98, he performed under the stage name "Baby Beesh", as part of Dope House Records, after which he changed the last part of the name to "Bash."
 His first album "Savage Dreams", was followed by "On Tha Cool"; and "Tha Smokin' Nephew", which included the singles "Suga Suga" and "Shorty DooWop".
 In 2005, "Super Saucy" was released, its lead single being "Baby, I'm Back", a collaboration with singer Akon. "
Cyclone" followed in 2007, with its title single featuring T-Pain and its follow-up, "What Is It" featuring Sean Kingston, landing on the "Billboard" charts as well.