Redman is the stage name of Reginald "Reggie" Noble (born April 17, 1970), an American rapper of Korean and African-American http://experts.about.com/e/r/re/redman.htm descent. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he became popular as an artist on the Def Jam label in the early 1990s. He is known in hip-hop for his use of metaphors in his rhymes.