Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Masta Killa's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs
The Ambitious Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Jamel Irief (born Elgin Evander Turner; August 18, 1969), better known by his stage name Masta Killa, is an American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. The birth-card coordinate for August 18 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2026 Performers — inducted member of Wu-Tang Clan
The 8 of Clubs coordinate
Masta Killa's birthday maps to the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Masta Killa. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call.
Masta Killa in the public record
He was only featured on one track on their 1993 debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), but has been prolific on Clan group albums and solo projects since the mid-1990s. He released his debut album No Said Date in 2004 to positive reviews, and has since released four additional albums. I never performed until we launched Wu-Tang. That was my first time as an MC. I have history since elementary school doing talent shows. Breaking and shit like that. I was that kind of dude. I loved to pop.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Masta Killa (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Masta Killa's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- A♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 8♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 5♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- That was me.
- Always doing shit around music.
- As far as with a mic in my hand, Wu-Tang was the first time.
- There never was next level for me.
Other inductees with this card
- Alessandro Cortini — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
- B. B. King — 1987 Performers
- Bernie Calvert — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
- Betty Kelly — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Bob Dylan — 1988 Performers
- Booker T. Jones — 1992 Performers with Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- Carlos Santana — 1998 Performers with Santana
- Chris Cornell — 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
- Cyndi Lauper — 2025 Performers
- Dennis Elliott — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
- Duane Eddy — 1994 Performers
- Guy Fletcher — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
- 13 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Masta Killa's birth card?
- The 8 of Clubs. August 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Masta Killa's dates come from?
- Birth date 1969-08-18 is the day-precision date on Masta Killa's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Masta Killa) + Wikidata CC0 (Q733802). Birth date 1969-08-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).