Lady Luck (rapper)

Lady Luck
Lady Luck in March 2012
Background information
Birth name	Shanell Jones
Born	1983 (age 33–34) Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Genres	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	Rapper, songwriter
Years active	1999-present
Labels	Universal, Def Jam, The Greatest Entertainment

Shanell Jones (born 1983), better known by her stage name Lady Luck, is an American hip hop recording artist from Englewood, New Jersey.

Luck signed a five-album record deal with Def Jam worth between half a million and a million dollars at the age of 17 on the strength of several freestyles that she did for New York radio station WQHT-FM. Luck was the subject of a feature in The New Yorker and a series of articles in The Source, which ran monthly installments on her career.

Lady Luck was featured in the 2000 documentary film of Jay-Z's 1999 tour, Backstage.

She is currently a cast member on the reality show First Family of HipHop.