Lady Luck (born 1982) is the stage name of rapper Shanel Jones.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.[1] After several arguments with the label,[citation needed] Luck was released from her Def Jam contract three years later. Although she recorded an album, Turn My Mic On in 2001, it was not released.[citation needed] 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.Lady Luck is also the grand niece of Sylvia Robinson, co-founder of Sugar Hill Records.