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Master P, Ma$e, and Cam'Ron all had a chance to go to the NBA
Nelly had a chance to be in the MLB
Biggie, Jay-Z, and Busta Rhymes went to the same highschool in Brooklyn

Every rapper in State Property other than Young Chris is Muslim
Jadakiss bought one of Cam'Ron's Beemers off E-Bay

Kurupt got his deal for death row after he battled Snoop in the street... (right after Deep Cover came out) Snoop introduced him to Dre and at Dre's home, he had to freestyle... if dre wasn't impressed, he was getting tossed in the pool...

Chino XL is a member of MENSA

Q-Tip wrote Phife Dawg's rhymes on People's Instictive Travels on the Paths of Rhythm...

E-40 Created The Terms "O Boy","Pop Ya Collar","Fasho" and The Fa Shizzle's.. Also Get Low Was nationally recognized due to the song by Lil Jon and Ying Yang but The Bay Has Been Using it for years. The Term Wanksta was around Long Before 50 Cent Made his song

Sauce money wrote puffys "ill be missing you"

Eminem used to sound like Az when he rhymed

Cormega witness his mother die when he was just a little boy. She was shot dead infront of him

Rahzel and Grandmaster Flash are cousins

Canibus admitted that he had never smoked marijuana in his life. (Courtesy of Rolling Stones - November 13, 2002)

Immortal Technique was born in a military base.

50 Cent lived on the same street as Ja Rule

Big visited pac in hospital after the 94 shooting

There was a Hip Hop album with the title "The Black Album" which was made by Producer No ID

Young Buck of G-Unit has a album out already....b4 UTP he made a album with some kid named D-Tay...this was like 2000.

Pharoahe Monch used to be real fat, he also has Asthma

Nas wrote NY State Of Mind when he was 17

Suge was the DOC and Bobby Brown's bodyguard. He got the ends and outs of the music buisness from DOC

Yeah Ashanti is in the "MC's Act Like They Don't Know" video

at one point, every single rap label warned their artists: "never publicly mention the Wu tang"

Ghostface beat up Mase causing him to have his jaw wired.

Jayz and Busta Rhymes attended the same high school and once battled in a hallway (Busta Rhymes lost and he was an upper classmen)

jemaine dupri was the youngest producer ever to go platinum

eazy e had dinner with george bush

snoop dogg went to school with camron diaz

Esham, a pioneer in horrorcore rap in detroit, wrote some of the most vicious diss tracks to eminem....response was Bizzare sending Esham to the hospital with a ruptured eyeball, a mild concussion and loss of hearin in his left ear...

We all know The Notorious B.I.G. was killed in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997. But, ironically, Biggie shouldn't have been in L.A. that weekend. Big, who'd been in L.A. since early February '97 promoting his 'Life After Death' album, was supposed to hop a flight to London on Friday, March 7, 1997, to continue his promotional junket. Biggie canceled his flight, and chose to remain in L.A. that weekend. He enjoyed the sunshine too much, and didn't want to leave it behind to go to an overcast London. Plus, he disliked European food. It may seem trite, but it's true. If Biggie had gotten on that flight on March 7th, he might still be with us.

mase had a million dollar contract (I think he was the first rapper, to get that).

Kool Keith & DMX used to collects bugs.

Dmx used to stand for "Divine Master of the unknown" (he should had kept that meaning)

Krazyzie Bone is a Jehovah Witness

Dre didnt like Snoop's raps, when he first heard them.

Just blaze got into producing, mostly to buy videogames.

Neptunes got some influence from old atari's music/sfx.

LL cool j wanted to do a song with odb. But when odb got to the studio. He rip off one of LL's plaque & pissed on it. Which made LL mad & got sercuity on him.

mc hammer dissed redman in one of his song.

dmx first thought Biggie was soft. Since, he saw Big did somethin real stupid in the studio

Bad Azz was Snoop's ghostwriter.

Jay Z ghostwritten Dre's verse on "Forgot About Dre"

Ras Kass use to battle Snoop in High School

Ras Kass's baby mother is recording artist Teedra Moses who he helped get a deal

Lil Kim was at one time pregnant by BIG but had a miscarriage. She also use to transport drugs on the bus system for him.

Da Brat was the first female Hip Hop artist to go platinum

Eminem once battled Juice in the Rap Olympics and lost to him coming in 2nd and saying it was rigged/favortism. Juice was the reason Em was at the Rap Olympics through invitation.

Immortal Technique battled Poster Boy on 106 and Park and lost. Immortal Technique who use to battle in all of the underground battle circuits also battled Slug from Atmosphere and a few other well known underground battle mcs.

After Chino XL recorded the track 3 to the Dome for Sway and Tech with him, Kool G Rap and Kane, Kool G threw away his rhymes and Chino went into the trash and took the crumpled out rhyme out and kept it because he was such a big fan of Kool G.

Eminem was supposed to be signed to Duck Down BEFORE signing with Dre and Aftermath, but Dru Ha decided not to sign him (the rumor is because he did not want to chance singing a white artist).

Ghostface use to wear a mask earlier in the Wu's career because he was really on the run from the police and took off the mask once his name got cleared.

The original version of Interview with A Vampire written by Ras Kass was about a 12 minute song and was chopped down to the 7 minute song recorded on Rasasssination.

There is a long list of rappers who are not from or even raised in the areas they claim as rap artists.....to name some from what I know:

Prodigy is not from QB originally
Xzibit is not from L.A., he moved there to pursue a career from N. Mexico
Mailk from Illegal (appeared on Pump Pump on Snoop's Doggystlye) was from S.C. but claimed L.A.
UGK is not from Houston, they are from Port Arthur Texas
DOC as already said was from Dallas
Canibus is not from Jerzey like he originally claimed, but has lived in various places from Canada to Atlanta because of his family moving around.
Royce Da 59 is not from Detroit, but from a nice suburb a good ways outside of Detroit
Eminem is actually from Warren Michigan, not from Detroit
DJ Premier is not from NY, he is from Dallas Texas
Pastor Troy is from Augusta not ATL


Ice T use to be a REAL street pimp and hustler at one time before becoming a rapper.

MC Hammer had to be restrained by Russell Simmons because he was going to attempt to beat down MC Serch after giving him the Gas Face on the song Gas Face.

Q-Tip and Janet Jackson have had a love interest in a long time, but remain friends. That is why Q-tip got the part as her slain boyfriend in Poetic Justice.

In Poetic Justice...2pac was supposed to have an extensice sex scene with Janet Jackson, but it was not shot when Pac refused to get an HIV test

Puffy directed Outkast's Player's Ball and Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik videos

Nore did time for murder when he was a juvenile.

Bizzie Bone and his siblings were molested repeatedly by their stepfather, and were kidnapped by him when their mother left him, which he says sparked his wild drug habit. Bizzie Bone also claims to have never tried eX, and claims that he was pressured into doing a verse on "Ectasy".

Snoop named "The Chronic". Dre didn't start smoking weed until he met Snoop, contrary to popular belief, he wasn't lying when he said "I don't smoke weed or cess", because at the time he didn't.


keith murray and prodigy had a physical altercation about 5 years ago.

baron davis and the game grew up together.

nas dropped out of school in the 7th grade.

The Fugees used to open up for Nas before either of them really blew up... (right after Illmatic)

You know that Biggie and Nas were hyped in 94 as the saviors of NY. Well supposedly they were on some tour and Nas began freestyling while they were drunk or something. Biggie fell asleep and then woke up and Nas was still going!

After recording Ready To Die Big learned to keep his lines in his head without writing them. This was a technique he taught Jay while Jay was doing Reasonable Doubt, then Jay eventually taught Ja Rule. None of them actually write lyrics.

When Big was doing "Notorious Thugs" he wanted to practice his Bone Thugs-ish flow without being embarassed so he sent everyone out of the room while he practiced by himself...

Big wrote all the lyrics for Junior Mafia's Consipracy minus a couple Lil Kim verses....

Nas, Jay and Mad Skillz were known in the early-to-mid-90s as the industries biggest ghostwriters....


.....

Mos Def was originally on BET's Teen Summit

50 Cent wrote most of Blaque's first album

That Order Of Protection against Murder Inc from 50 does exist but it wasn't 50 who asked for it, it was court mandated. Supposedly they didn't even have to tell 50 they had made it, so he truly may have never known.

Ron Artest grew up in the same Queensbridge housing projects that Nas, MC Shan, Havoc, and others did. If you look for him you can see him in various QB-related artists' videos.

After Nature's "Nas Is Not" single began circulating, Nature was reportedly beat down by Nas' brother Jungle and his friends...

Supposedly Jungle and Lake also got Prodigy his chain back after he had been robbed...

Also supposedly, Fat Joe and Big Pun had developed a rivalry with Jay Z way back in 98. They supposedly got into it at a club and Pun smashed a bottle of champagne or some wine over Jay's head...

The Neptunes used to ghostproduce for Teddy Riley, they produced SWV's "Right Here" with Pharrell singing backup vocals

Timbaland used to ghostproduce sorta - sometimes hed get credit, sometimes he didnt - for DeVante Swing of Jodeci....

Timbaland and Ginuwine used to be in a group on Devante's label called Da Bassment, if you look for the Nutty Professor Soundtrack they have a cover of Ready for the World's "Love You Down"

Missy was in another group on Devante's label called Sista, they had a song on the Dangerous Minds Soundtrack....

Lil Wayne Shot Himself When He Was 9

Game Was On The Dating Gameshow Change Of Heart And His Girl Had A Change Of Heart

jay and mase had a little beef Supposedly it was a misunderstanding.
mase got at them on his opening track on harlem world.
jay got at him on "imaginary player" vol. 1.

Angie Stone was Signed to Sugar Hill records as a rapper


.Nas was suppose to be on "CAN I LIVE PT 1" by Jay-z....Nas didnt show up at last minute and Reasonable Doubt had was deadlined for the Next day....So Jayz had to hurry up and WRITE the 2nd Verse of it in 20 minutes and record it by himslef....Alot of people say this was the begining of a long standing fued

Style's P Attacked Puffy with Chair...(Security saved his ass)

Beanie Sigel knocked out Gillie the Kid on South street in front of Whole Cash Money crew when the NBA all star game was there

NAS wrote "MIAMI" for Will Smith

2Pac was ready to sign Big Daddy Kane to his label Makaveli Records.

2Pac took ballet.

AZ was in one of Jay-Z's videos.

Tigger from Rap Citys the basement as well as Mystikal where cheerleaders in highschool

the game is in gta san andreas

Cash Money Records was started from dope money back in 92'

It is rumored that Baby had Cash Money Artist Yella Boy killed after he pistol wiped Baby.

Mannie Fresh been DJing since 1987, him, Mia X, and KLC and a crew called NYC Inc.

Lil Wayne was signed to CMR at the age of 10, and him and BG(than called Lil Doogie) was in a group called the B.G.'z. Than he shot accidently himself than his daddy died so he layed off the mic for a minute.

BG been using heroin since the age of 15.

Juvenile wasnt signed to CMR until 97. Actually, BG was supposed to be the first artist to drop from CMR when they went national, but BG went to jail so the dropped Juvenile first.

Baby owns a portion of the Magnolia projects, he lets everyone there live rent free. True Story! Most of the project has been torn down.

Hot Boy's first album "Get it How U Live" sold 300K locally.

Lil Wayne ghostwrote for Bow Wow before.

Master P fucced alot of artist by giving the m one album contracts with no royalties. Just one small lump sum at the contract signing.

Juvenile is actually in is mid 30's.

Baby is the legal gaurdian of Lil Wayne

ESCAPE" by Whodini was the first Hip-Hop platinum selling album 1984

"The BREAKS" by Kurtis Blow was the first hip-hop Gold single

Chuck D declined an offer from Def Jam cause he said he was to old to rap.

Big Daddy Kane while in High School challenged Kool Moe Dee in a battle but Moe Dee refused him.

Roxanne shante asked Moe Dee to ghost write her a battle rhyme against MC LYTE

Prince Paul producer for Tribe called quest started the skit writting for hiphop albums.

Teddy Riley produced "The Show" for doug e fresh and slick rick

Scarface, Bushwick and willie D are not the Original Ghetto Boys.

Marley Marl brung producers to the forefront as superstars in hip-hop

Melle Mel was the mc on Chaka khans "I feel for you"

The MESSAGE went Gold in 21 days

In 1983, Darren "Buffy, the Human Beat Box" Robinson won a talent contest at Radio City Music Hall thanks to his talent for using his mouth to recreate Hip Hop rhythms and a variety of sound effects. News spread, and Beatboxing was brought to a wide audience. Buffy was followed by Doug E Fresh

Errm this isn't really hiphop, but I find it funny.

Justin Timberlakes album which is written by Pharrell Williams, is actually just old cast off songs that pharrell wrote for Michael Jackson, but weren't good enough to make the cut.

the RZA created his Bobby Digital persona when in a PCP high. He started talking to himself, believing he was talking to Bobby Digital

Kanye West was born in Atlanta.

Rappers Oringinal Rap Names
Big Moon Dog - Big Pun
Chill-O-Ski - Busta Rhymes
Kid Wizard - Rakim
MC Love Child - Q Tip
MC New York - 2Pac
Paul Juice - Large Professor

What Group Names Stand For:

Black Moon - Brothers Lyrically Acting combined Kicking Music Out on Nations

Goodie Mob - The Good Die Mostly over Bullsh*t

Junior M.A.F.I.A. - Masters at Finding Intelligent Attitudes

KMD - Kausin Much Damage

the Lox - Livin off Experience

TRU - The Real Untouchables

U.T.F.O. - Untouchable Force Organization

Wu-Tang - Witty Unpredictable Talent and Natural game

Before Wu Tang was formed, Rza, Gza and ODB had a group called "All In Together Now".

6 costly artists to sample from:

Barry White - $10,000-$30,000 per sample

Zapp - $15,000

Sting - 50%-100% of the publishing

Isaac Hayes - $7000

Phil Collins - $8000

More Group Names and what they stand for:

Almighty RSO - Rock sh*t On

BWP - b*tches With problems

J.J. Fad - Just Jammin Fresh and Def

P.A. - Parental Advisory

U.N.L.V. - Uptown *****s Living Violent

WC and the MAAD Circle - Minority Alliance of Anti-Discrimination; Motherf*ckas Armed and Down

Yaggfu Front - You are gonna Get f*cked up if you front

Artist Acronyms:

Big Daddy Kane - King Asiatic Nobody's Equal

D.M.C. - Darry Mac; Devastating Mic Controller

Ja Rule - Jeff Atkins Represents Unconditional Love's Existence

Memphis Bleek - Makin' Easy Money Pimpin' Hoes in Style

Tash (Tha Liks) - Tough Ass Son of Harold

Kool G. rap - Kool Genius of Rap

KRS-One - Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone

Guru - Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal

Eminem is from Kansas but moved to Warren,MI thats like the border of Detroit (8 mile)...then moved to Detroit

Royce 5"9 is from the burbs (Oak Park,MI)

Eminem was goin' to be a member of the Outsidaz.

Grimm Reaper form the Gravediggaz was a original member of Stetsasonic.

Slum Village origianl name was Senepod (dopeness backwards)

Havoc & Prodigy stole they names from the westcoast rappers South Central Cartel (Havok & Prodoje)

Angie Stone is D'angelo's baby momma

Eve is the one who snitched on Foxy Brown wit DMX,leading to Kurupt leaving her and throwin' disses at X.

Young Buck appeard on a local Detroit group album (Street Lordz) before he got with G-Unit.

Holocaust/Warcloud (from the Black Knights) got kicked out of Wu-Tang's westcoast group The Black Kinghts cause he beat up RZA's brother (9th Prince from Killarmy)

The intro to Can It Be All So Simple was a real incident.Ghost did get shot.

ODB got shot in the stomach in Brooklyn for tryin' to rob someone.(look at the scar on his stomach in his old video)

Raekwon,Meth,Ghost,Nas,AZ All talk that 5% God Body stuff and all sniff coke or had done it in the past.

Farnsworth Bentley is gay (rumor has it P.Diddy is gay)

JD (Dupri) wash already rich...spoiled lil' down-syndrone lookin' muthaf....

Cash Money was actually Ja Rule's click name

Busy Bee looks like Mos Def
Llyod Banks looks like porno star Brian Pumper

LL Cool J & Rakim use to hang with big drug dealers in Harlem such as Rich Porter &
Alpo (check the F.E.D.S magazine)

Common was in a gang...the 4 Corner Hustler's which is Pepo like VL's

Twista & Crucial Conflict are also gang members

Rhymefest wrote Jesus Walks for Kanye

DJ Pooh (from the 1st Friday movie) was out way back in the 80's with King T

a Wu-Tang Clan member girlfriend song the chrous on Cher Che La Ghost

Power from the Wu-Tang camp gave them money to record they demo.He was a big drug dealer hence the name Supreme Team.

Mystikal is near 40 and was in the Gulf War in the 90's (a real No Limit soilder)

Cash Money Records got they "start up money" from heroine sells.Baby & Slim's brother is in jail from that (F.E.D.S magazine)

Trick Daddy 1st rapped wit Luke on a song called "Scarred" then 10 years later got scarred in Detroit by rapper Trick Trick for takin' his name he say.

the industry don't like Detroit artist...WE VIOLENT alot of rappers have got beat up at concerts for nothin'

Lil Zane has a cut on his left cheek and try to pass it as a dimple.

Lil Wayne was on heroine as well as B.G. (downsouth drugs is "cool" to take...14 year old crackheads down there)

Dame Dash played a swordsman named Carlos in Highlander: Endgame

T.I. ghostwrote for bow wow

Vinnie of Naughty By Nature is first cousins with Mike Tyson

Lil Flip has been shot

The D.O.C. is from Dallas

Tupac proposed marriage to Jada Pinkett and they went to high school together

Mos Def was an actor before he was a rapper

Only a few MCs wrote their own rhymes in NWA.

Masta Killa punched a reporter for making fun of Wu.

Redman and Dead Prez graduated from college.

Before GZA, ODB had the name "Genius." This was way before GZA's 91 debut.

Members of Onyx were barbers before they became rappers.

RZA was charged with murder before 36 Chambers. He was released from lack of evidence

Kool Keith was in the hospital for mentally ill

Supernatural, the incredible freestyle master lost a battle with C-Rayz Walz

TI birthname is clifford Harris

He was arrested the for the first time at the age of 15

Mase claims to have two PHD'S

Gravediggaz was formed because of them 4 frustrated MCs getting rejected from record labels.

RZA came up with his alter ego, Bobby Digital, from doing too much pcp. He said he felt like there was 2 of him inside. That sh*t must have f*cked him up.

De La Soul were pissed at people calling them Hip Hop Hippies, so they went and released the album De La Soul Is Dead. Heard this on VH1.

The 9th member of the Wu was going to be picked from Masta Killa and Killah Priest. Masta Killa wrote rhymes all night, but Priest fell asleep too early. The next morning, he was awakened by Masta's Da Mystery of Chessboxin' verse.

50 Cent made his first official appearance in hip hop as a guest in Onyx's Shut em Down album. He was featured on the song "React."

Cappadonna taught Deck how to rap.

U-God's 3 year old son was shot while playing on the balcony of their house.

U-God talks about his son's death in the Forever LP.

Biggie isn't from NY. His mom didn't move to the BK til he was 8. He was bron in like the West Indies or Jamiaca, cant exactly remember

Nelly and Ciara were born in Austin


Usher was born in Dallas


Ludacris was born in Champaign, Illinois


Bushwick Bill was born in Kingston, Jamaica


8 Ball & MJG resided in Houston while under Suave House


A large number of Actors who play gangsters in movies are from nice neighborhoods with little or no street knowledge

David Banner has a Master's Degree

Nelly was scouted by the St. Louis Cardinals when he was in High School

Mase taught Jim Jones how to rap

The Neptunes produced the song "Rumpshaker" and Pharrell wrote Teddy
Riley's verse

Missy was an admitted hoe in high school. Blamed it on being molested when she was younger

Scarface has a tatoo of somebody blowing their brains out on his forearm

Trick Daddy has like 20 sibling between his parents

Andre' 3000 drew the cover for Outkast's Aquemini album

some of these i know are real but others are too dumb to be true... cool facts tho *reps*

EDIT: *must spread rep* ill get you later

Good read

at one point, every single rap label warned their artists: "never publicly mention the Wu tang"

LMAO I LOVE THIS QUOTE ITS GOING IN MY SIG

NOT ALOT OF THIS IS NEWS BUT SOME OF IT IS

seen this a few years ago

these are my fav

LL cool j wanted to do a song with odb. But when drunk odb got to the studio. He rip off one of LL's plaque & pissed on it. Which made LL mad & got sercuity on him. lmaaooooooooooo

No one fucking with Wu, especially Ghostface, lol

Killah Priest should have been chosen

Chino XL is dope

Pharoahe Monch used to be real fat, he also has Asthma. whoa

MF Grimm being replaced by Nas

Missy was an admitted hoe in high school. lol

I thought the whole reason Canibus got kicked out of the military was because they caught him smoking weed, or was that his first time doing it? Sounds fishy.

Anyways, some pretty interesting facts.

DOPE post... very good read!

Lil Wayne Shot Himself When He Was 9

8Mile!!!


But then it doesn't make sense
Lil Wayne Shot Himself When He Was 9

tehgame did you know that Royce is from the burbs

tehgame did you know that Royce is from the burbs
hahahaha repped

Lil Wayne was signed to CMR at the age of 10, and him and BG(than called Lil Doogie) was in a group called the B.G.'z. Than he shot accidently himself than his daddy died so he layed off the mic for a minute.




Yes I did btw

2Pac was ready to sign Big Daddy Kane to his label Makaveli Records.

fuck, didn't know that

"NAS wrote "MIAMI" for Will Smith"


haha

thats A LOT of 'facts', some seem pretty sketchy to me but theres a lot of interesting stuff there

[quote=ScottishHead;1288864]at one point, every single rap label warned their artists: "never publicly mention the Wu tang"

WHY? Was Wu-Tang that hardcore? Death Row was afriad to mention Wu-Tang?

^ ... A member of Wu got jumped at Suge's club in Las Vegas and Pac didn't like the way it went down and told Suge to squash the beef and he agreed outta respect.

good shit.

Xzibit is from Detroit, actually. Then moved to New Mexico. Or the other way around.

UGK never claimed Houston... they mention "P.A." or "Port Arthur" on every other track.

Lil' Wayne shot himself, accidently

lmao at ODB pissin' on LL's plaque

I've been tryna tell muh'fuckas on here for a minute that Rhymefest wrote Kanye West's Jesus Walks. I think it's funny how he's bragging about the song like a muh'fucka at the end of College Dropout. "I played Jesus Walks for them, and they didn't wanna sign me!"

[quote=ScottishHead;1288864]at one point, every single rap label warned their artists: "never publicly mention the Wu tang"

WHY? Was Wu-Tang that hardcore? Death Row was afriad to mention Wu-Tang?

WU were hard core as fuck. At least a few of em, like Ghostface, ODB, RZA, & Masta Killa, from what I know.
When they were in their prime, NOBODY fucked with em.

[QUOTE=Vats of Urine;1288923]

WU were hard core as fuck. At least a few of em, like Ghostface, ODB, RZA, & Masta Killa, from what I know.
When they were in their prime, NOBODY fucked with em.

exactly what do you mean by "hard core"?

^^you dont know what hardcore means or what


you pansy

^^you dont know what hardcore means or what


you pansy

:boxing: :boxing: :boxing:

That's hardcore, you muh'fucka ^^

[QUOTE=DRAQUO;1288968]

exactly what do you mean by "hard core"?

Not necessarily their music. Hardcore in the same context the guy I quoted was using it in. Meaning nobody fucked wit 'em. They were some ghetto-ass-I-don't-give-a-fuck muh'fuckas. I would've used a diff word...

^^you dont know what hardcore means or what


you pansy

obviously i know what hardcore means, but im asking whether he's describing their raps as hardcore or their lifestyles, duh.

and it's always the mature thing to resort to namecalling. good job! *thumbs up*

Nice, very interesting facts. The one about nas dropping out of school

i didn't read all of them, but bullshit @ Eminem having ever sounded like AZ. wigga please...

Nice, very interesting facts. The one about nas dropping out of school

why is that video on ur sig???
just curious...

^Lol because I like that song..lol

^Lol because I like that song..lol


Haha thats funny. I thought that dude was a black guy for like a year when that song came out...then i saw the video and was like "you're fucking kidding me? A white boy? with Red fucking hair?!?!? hahahaha i thought i was in the twilight zone or some shit...

^lmao

that one about nas writin miami has me still laughing, great post man

^Lol because I like that song..lol

lmao
good reason.

why is that video on ur sig???
just curious...

cuz you just got rick roll'd dun

Ghostface broke Mase jaw????


lol

Were d'you find all dis stuff out

I'm surprised Common was in a gang...a lot of those aren't true and are made up.

Kool Keith and DMX used to collect bugs =))

I'm surprised Common was in a gang...a lot of those aren't true and are made up.

Why is it so hard to believe Common was in a gang?

aye, this has been going about for a few years and they just add on some each time ...

some fact, some rumors and some myths ...

always a good read ...

I'm surprised Common was in a gang...
What's so hard to believe? Consider his background: He grew up in a low-income part of Chicago. His single parent mom woke up early every day to work more than forty hours a week, and yet they barely, if ever, made it above the poverty level.

Not hard to believe in the least.

wow, interesting facts, nice find my dude, reps for this

lol at canibus never smoking weed

and exzibit not from LA

hahahahaha

its true though.. about some1 in wu-tang got there chain snatched in a club by some1 in the death row crew and pac didnt like the way it went down so made dude give his chain back.. i mean wu-tang use to be deep as fuck.. noone was messin with em.. but deathrow use to roll like 500 deep and more out in L.A.. like Snopp always says they where like the black sopranao's.. another reason why so many people where killed after pac got shot again.. and i herd pac was tryna sign wu-tang to deathrow east.. imagine that shit. whoa..

LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee came to blows one night backstage.

-Freddie Foxxx put a gun in Benzino's mouth on the Flavor Unit tour bus, because Benzino would not stop talking **** about what a thug he was

-"The bridge is over" was a Marley Marl beat that Krs One and Scott La Rock found in a studio.

-2pac was robbed and shot by some of Supreme's boys.

-"I got a story to tell" was vaguelly based on a real life incident Biggie had when he was slipping pipe to John Starks' woman.

-Paul C was murdered by his wife and his brother.

-Showbiz has almost been sent upstate for attempted murder twice.

-Big Pun hit Jay Z over the head with a bottle in a club.

-Eric. B beat down Large Professor and ran Kool G. Rap out of New York to Arizona after 'G. Rap revealed Large Pro produced most of the beats Eric B was supposed to have done on the Eric B. & Rakim albums and "wanted dead or alive".

-Biz Markie produced most of EPMD's first album.

-Ghostface, Superb and their team beat down and robbed 50 Cent and Tony Yayo after 50's dis tracks.

-Johnny Juice did all Terminator X's cuts on the Public Enemy albums.

Kool Keith met Godfather Don outside some industry event that both of them weren't allowed entry to. They snuck in through a back window and then hung out for the next month or so recording the 'Don produced tracks on "the 4 horsemen" and, of course, all the classic Cenobites tracks.

-Just Ice was a prime suspect in a murder case.

-Just Ice turned up in Queens on Poet's block after the two Rockwell Noel & The Poet tracks dissing Krs One, Red Alert and Ms. Melodie with a shotgun and waited for Poet to come out. Needless to say, Poet stayed in the crib that day.

-DJ Ready Red was kicked out of Geto Boys and shafted by J. Prince because of his lack of melanin.

-Alpo, Fritz, the original 50 Cent from Ft Greene and various other notorious hustlers/killers from the legendary Paid In Full Posse were in the crew shots on "paid in full" and "follow the leader".

-Rakim recorded a dis cut aimed at 'Kane for "let the rhythm hit 'em" and had a verse on the title track itself aimed at him. 'Kane heard about this and called Rakim to squash it and Rakim went on to scrap the track and remove the verse.

-Eric B. did security for Mike Tyson throughout much of the 90's.

-Diamond D and his old late 80's group Ultimate Force with Master Rob recorded a full album with Jazzy Jay which has never been heard.

-A young Fat Joe and his boys Tony Montana(R.I.P) and Charlie Rock L.D were one of the top two crack crews in the Bronx in the mid 80's and bringing in thousands of $$$$ per day.

-Q Tip got fuked up so bad by one of the members of Wrexx N Effect that he lost partial sight in one of his eyes. ****EDIT***^^^^^very true^^^^^

-Nas came incredibly close to being on the Large Pro produced Kool G Rap, Xtra P, Freddie Foxxx and Ant posse cut "money in the bank" as he was always hangin' around Eric B.'s studio but had gone to pick up some weed with a chick so they let the Ant kid on there instead.

- Main Source (sans Large Pro) ran up in the Wild Pitch offices with machetes looking to behead MC Serch (then working as an A&R for the label) after a West Coast promotional tour went ****ty. MC Serch got wind that they were coming and escaped by crawling over the partial walls for his office and jetting out the back door.

- Grimm was supposed to be on "Live at the Barbecue" but he was arrested on the way to the studio.
"Ya'll don't write, you pay for airplays and rhymes of the month
A risin' star, I don't respect you cuz I do my own stunts
The rap world is run by morons, dudes who don't get it
that's why I simplify and cater to the dimwitted"

Rza and Killah Sin and another fam member went to see 50 perform after How To Rob and 50 got wind of them being there and dipped backstage and didn't perform, I have heard this one several times.

-Redman Smacked Prodigy around the time Hell On Earth was out b/c he was dissing Keith and Def Squad.

-A member of Wu got jumped at Suge's club in Las Vegas and Pac didn't like the way it went down and told Suge to squash the beef and he agreed outta respect.

*****EDIT*****I thought it was keith that snuffed P out in front of his people at the Tunnel.(shrugs)

-When Nas came to Boston around 94/95 somebody in RSO Crew (possibly Benzino) walked up to Nas and sonned him by knocking his baseball cap off of his head.

-Freddie Foxxx went to Landspeed records like 200 deep in order to get the money they owed him.

-Kool Herc was shot around 78 or something.

-Grandmaster Caz wrote Rappers Delight.

-Pharrel use to carry records around for Teddy Riley.

-Benzino forced Mays to give him part ownership of the source. There are legends of Benzino and his people tying up Mays in his own closet.

-Benzino actually one of the main reasons why Boston had such a small homicide rate in the late 90's, the Feds put UC's on every block and had a lot crazy ish going on so Benzino got a lot of the heads of the bigger gangs together to unite so that not everyone get locked up. That saw the murder lessen and the Boston police taken credit for "doing away with crime in a big city".

-Freddie Foxxx did put Benzino in check on tour with the Flava Unit. Benzino was acting up and Foxxx pulled something out.

-The entire city of Boston was blacklisted back in the day by the industry due to crowds and Boston rappers and thugs attending shows just to cause problems. Every rapper from Audio Two to Biggie had either a bottle smashed across their head on stage or their show cancelled due to a shooting. To this day very few rappers do shows in the Boston hoods because of it.

-MF Grimm was not only suppose to be on Live at the BBQ, but his joint with Kool G Rap or 4, 5, 6 was suppose to be the lead single but he was arrested again and G Rap went with the joint with Nas.

-Grimm also admitted that he came in third at the World Supremecy battle in 93, losing to SuperNat who won but that he was also involved in a shooting earlier in the day.

-Mf Grimm was held on trial for the murder of a cop.

-Everyone in CashMoney has done at least 2 years in prison I believe.

-A boston beatboxer by the name of A-Train is said to have beaten BizMarkie, Dana Dane, and K-solo in a battle back in 88.

-Jay-z was told by Scarface to change Reasonable Doubt because he actually named names of dealers.

-Fat Joe gave Guru a place to live for awhile.

-Guru didnt leave boston in the best of terms which is why the early of stages of his carrear boston did not play a big part. Gang Starr originally started in Boston and had a few emcees in it. Guru left for NY and took the name without people knowing.

-Rakim was still in high school when paid in full dropped.

-JT the bigga Figga returned Nas chain to him when it got stolen in cali

-suge beating the shit out of snoop's/ dre homies cause they were using that phone that harry o had an exclusive phone line... and the dudes saying saying to suge "hey we roll wit dr. dre"! first sign of dre holding no weight

-LL Cool J was cool with Alpo and many other rappers had drug ties then.

-Tupac did have some of his enemies killed.

-Eazy-E was from a very middle class family so was Ice cube they weren't thugs

-Some people in Death Row got raped in the building.

-Suge doesnt like game because he expose some of Death Row business (stuff about Harry-O) and because he is not really blood.

-The reason Sheek wasn't around much after LOX split from Bad boy cause he was clearing up cases he had.

-The real reason Mase left hip hop & Harlem is because of heavy extortion, not an epiphany from god

Got this from some other site,but theres plenty more

BIG lost his original record deal because Patti La Belle was offended by "Dreams of fu*king an R&B bi*ch".

When Puff started BB, he remembered BIG and the rest is history.....

Timbaland & Pharrell made a group when they were in High School

Flesh-N-Bone was the one who bought the bus ticjets for the rest of Bone to go to LA

Bone was homeless when they got to La

Krayzie auditioned over the phone first for Eazy-E, then in person in cleveland when Eazy did a show there..

Eazy-E told Bone not to get involved between the Dr.Dre & Eazy-E beef.....

Krayzie shot Wish Bone in the back of the leg with a shotgun when they ere yung(listen to I Remember frum Gemini:Good Vs. Evil)

Pac didnt wear a vest the night he got shot...and he ALWAYS wore a vest

Jay-z shot his brother for stealing money from him

Biggie isn't from NY. His mom didn't move to the BK til he was 8. He was bron in like the West Indies or Jamiaca, cant exactly remember

Lil Wayne shot himslef 2 times

"Let's Get It" with Pdiddy and Black rob was supposed to be G-Deps first single but made it in too a trio single for the PDIddy album

all most every crunk artist produced for So So Def during the Bass perion

JD is rich as hell for ghostwriting most of Usher's cds

Big Boi is from Savannah

David Banner graduated from Southern University, cum laude, and was prez of SGA

that other guy from youngbloods(not sean paul) and andre 3000 are cousins

T.I. ghostwrote for bow wow (no wonder bow wow fell off)

young buck has rapped with cash money and three six mafia

Common attened FAMU

rakim wrote some verses for 'paid in full' three years before the album came out ... that wouldve meant he wrote that sh*t around the ages of 14/15 ...damn

Prodigy and Havoc both attend the same high school before they got a record deal.

Vinnie of Naughty By Nature is ifrst cousins with Mike Tyson

Dame Dash played a swordsman named Carlos in Highlander: Endgam

Snoop named "The Chronic". Dre didn't start smoking weed until he met Snoop, contrary to popular belief, he wasn't lying when he said "I don't smoke weed or cess", because at the time he didn't.


keith murray and prodigy had a physical altercation about 5 years ago.

baron davis and the game grew up together.

nas dropped out of school in the 7th grade.

The Fugees used to open up for Nas before either of them really blew up... (right after Illmatic)

You know that Biggie and Nas were hyped in 94 as the saviors of NY. Well supposedly they were on some tour and Nas began freestyling while they were drunk or something. Biggie fell asleep and then woke up and Nas was still going!

After recording Ready To Die Big learned to keep his lines in his head without writing them. This was a technique he taught Jay while Jay was doing Reasonable Doubt, then Jay eventually taught Ja Rule. None of them actually write lyrics.

When Big was doing "Notorious Thugs" he wanted to practice his Bone Thugs-ish flow without being embarassed so he sent everyone out of the room while he practiced by himself...

Big wrote all the lyrics for Junior Mafia's Consipracy minus a couple Lil Kim verses....

Nas, Jay and Mad Skillz were known in the early-to-mid-90s as the industries biggest ghostwriters....

Mos Def was originally on BET's Teen Summit

50 Cent wrote most of Blaque's first album

That Order Of Protection against Murder Inc from 50 does exist but it wasn't 50 who asked for it, it was court mandated. Supposedly they didn't even have to tell 50 they had made it, so he truly may have never known.

Ron Artest grew up in the same Queensbridge housing projects that Nas, MC Shan, Havoc, and others did. If you look for him you can see him in various QB-related artists' videos.

After Nature's "Nas Is Not" single began circulating, Nature was reportedly beat down by Nas' brother Jungle and his friends...

Supposedly Jungle and Lake also got Prodigy his chain back after he had been robbed...

Also supposedly, Fat Joe and Big Pun had developed a rivalry with Jay Z way back in 98. They supposedly got into it at a club and Pun smashed a bottle of champagne or some wine over Jay's head...

The Neptunes used to ghostproduce for Teddy Riley, they produced SWV's "Right Here" with Pharrell singing backup vocals

Timbaland used to ghostproduce sorta - sometimes hed get credit, sometimes he didnt - for DeVante Swing of Jodeci....

Timbaland and Ginuwine used to be in a group on Devante's label called Da Bassment, if you look for the Nutty Professor Soundtrack they have a cover of Ready for the World's "Love You Down"

Missy was in another group on Devante's label called Sista, they had a song on the Dangerous Minds Soundtrack....

Lil Wayne Shot Himself When He Was 9

Game Was On The Dating Gameshow Change Of Heart And His Girl Had A Change Of Heart

jay and mase had a little beef Supposedly it was a misunderstanding.
mase got at them on his opening track on harlem world.
jay got at him on "imaginary player" vol. 1.

Angie Stone was Signed to Sugar Hill records as a rapper


.Nas was suppose to be on "CAN I LIVE PT 1" by Jay-z....Nas didnt show up at last minute and Reasonable Doubt had was deadlined for the Next day....So Jayz had to hurry up and WRITE the 2nd Verse of it in 20 minutes and record it by himslef....Alot of people say this was the begining of a long standing fued

Style's P Attacked Puffy with Chair...(Security saved his ass)

Beanie Sigel knocked out Gillie the Kid on South street in front of Whole Cash Money crew when the NBA all star game was there

NAS wrote "MIAMI" for Will Smith

2Pac was ready to sign Big Daddy Kane to his label Makaveli Records.

2Pac took ballet.

AZ was in one of Jay-Z's videos.

Tigger from Rap Citys the basement as well as Mystikal where cheerleaders in highschool

the game is in gta san andreas

Cash Money Records was started from dope money back in 92'

It is rumored that Baby had Cash Money Artist Yella Boy killed after he pistol wiped Baby.

Mannie Fresh been DJing since 1987, him, Mia X, and KLC and a crew called NYC Inc.

Lil Wayne was signed to CMR at the age of 10, and him and BG(than called Lil Doogie) was in a group called the B.G.'z. Than he shot accidently himself than his daddy died so he layed off the mic for a minute.

BG been using heroin since the age of 15.

Juvenile wasnt signed to CMR until 97. Actually, BG was supposed to be the first artist to drop from CMR when they went national, but BG went to jail so the dropped Juvenile first.

Baby owns a portion of the Magnolia projects, he lets everyone there live rent free. True Story! Most of the project has been torn down.

Hot Boy's first album "Get it How U Live" sold 300K locally.

Lil Wayne ghostwrote for Bow Wow before.

Master P fucced alot of artist by giving the m one album contracts with no royalties. Just one small lump sum at the contract signing.

Juvenile is actually in is mid 30's.

Baby is the legal gaurdian of Lil Wayne
Kim had her ass whopped by Faith over B.I.G

Mary J Blige was a cokehead

Jay-Z was in Kanes' old videos

Roxanne Shante got pregnant when she was 15 years old

LOX debuted on Main Source 2nd album

Suposedly Lauryn Hill became a recluse the last 3 years or so and became apart of a strange cult with beliefs in Religious mysticism. Repordetly the cult has been draining her money and time. She suposedly has recently snapped out of it and is ready to work on the new fugees joint.

R. Kelly worked the drive through at Mc Donalds for an hour in St. Louis at a stop during the best of both worlds tour.

Kanye spent a million of his own money to make the final version of the Jesus Walks video

T.I. has 2 kids with Xscape singer Tiny

Juicy J and Project pat are brothers. And thier father is a minister.

Will smith hid in a closet when suge night and his blood friends stormed a studio in cali.

T.I. says urban legend was a paperless album. implying he keeps his raps in his head like jay or freestyles. (it seems everyone is tryin to do this now...)

Master P entered the NBA draft and for a brief stint played for the denver nugggets.

2pac used to call weed candy.

Daz and warren G went uncredited for a lot of co production on "Tha Chronic"
Treach did a prono

ODB got gonorreha (sp?) twice from the same woman.


At the time he died, Big L was in negotiations with Jay-Z to do a solo joint for Rocafella. I've heard this a couple of times.

I also heard that Big L's murder was a case of mistaken identity. The shooter(s?) thought he was his cousin or some [censored].

Roxanne Shante legally jacked her label for over $100,000 for education, and has done well with her life (even though she ain't released [censored] for years).



Method Man was dusted during the recording of the Mary J. Blige "All I Need" video. (That explains some of his facial features in the video)

In the months before he died, Big Pun had gotten so heavy that he had to be driven to and from the stage in a golf cart. Performing was said to be real hard & tiring for him. He was something like 700 pounds at the time of his death.

Pun used to play maaad pranks on his crew. One I can remember was him taking someone's cell phone, and putting it under his belly fold for a couple of minutes, than putting it back. Dude picked it up to use it, and it stank like Pun's bellyfold sweat

John Forte was busted for drug trafficking, and was caught with something like 30 pounds of yay.


Method Man loves golf! (Heads who seen the tape know what I'm talking about)

Willie D of the group Getto Boys moved his entire family to Baku, Azerbaijan, a middle east country on the border of Iran.

Bizzy Bone is quite the ladies man About 5 or six years ago Bizzy Bone got down on one knee and proposed to Halle Berry. He gave Toni Braxton the diamond ring off his finger. Him and Beyonce once had something going pre-jigga days.

Record Labels that are rumored to be "cursed":
The Bad Boy Curse: The Lox once seen as a sure thing first album flopped and they never really reached any great commercial succes. B.I.G was murdered. Black Rob arrested several times...labled a one hit wonder. Loon left the label. 112 left the label. New Edition left the label. Faith got caught with cocaine...left the label. Da Band broke up with only dropping a single album......Ness and Babs have yet to drop an album. Shyne is in Jail. and the list goes on.........

No Limit Curse: Master P filed bankruptcy. Soulja Slim was murdered. Mystikal in jail for rape. C- murder in jail for ummmm murder. Mac in jail for murder. Kane and Abel served 4 years for running drugs. Mia X is M.I.A. Mercedes strips now.....the list goes on....

The first person to give Nas his start at solo stardom was M.C Serch one third of the white rap group 3rd bass.

The New York Post a respected newspaper ran the offensive and disrespectfull headline about ODB's death "Dead Dirty Bastard"

When Skillz first album dropped he was still valet parking at a famous restraunt in Virginia

ODB had 7 kids not 13 as at first widely publicized

Once Ghostface Killah was a guest at the "Rap City" TV programm. Cappadonna joined him later, coming with a briefcase in his hands. Tigga asked Ghost about the contents of that briefcase but Ghost didn't say a word. Then Tigga started smiling and sh*t, so Ghost asked him smth like: "Do I look funny or what? I'm not joking, so stop fu*king smiling at me".

Back in the days when 50 wasn't popular, he got dismissed from a club for dissing Ghostface Killah !

Ol' Dirty Bastard's album "N***a Please" was originally planned to be named «Dirty World» or «Revolution: The Black Man Is God».

RZA didn't like that Jay-Z called himself Jigga - because it sounds similar to GZA.

Method Man once said that he likes working with Redman more than with the WU.
(It was on MTV)

RZA once said that if he wasn't in hip-hop business, he would like to be a scientist.

GZA is not a 5%-er anymore.

I've heard that Ghostface Killah has some kind of diabetes so he doesn't drink any alcohol.

Method Man was one of the most favourite rapper of Notorious B.I.G.

While reading a magazine, Method Man found out that a video game "Wu–Tang Shaolin Style" came out for Sony Playstation. He got mad at the rest of the Clan for not telling him about that. Later he stated that this game was not that good, mainly because of the characters' movements.

really interesting shit here

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Not necessarily their music. Hardcore in the same context the guy I quoted was using it in. Meaning nobody fucked wit 'em. They were some ghetto-ass-I-don't-give-a-fuck muh'fuckas. I would've used a diff word...


I forgot the name of the group, but it was a hip hop group that never made it.

Mobb Deep & Wu Tang were in the studio together, and they all got robbed at gunpoint by some no-name rap group! Lol, on top of that, the dudes made them drop their drawers, and robbed them while they were standing there in their boxers.

lol@ ma$e taught jim jones how to rhyme

Will smith hid in a closet when suge night and his blood friends stormed a studio in cali.

Pun used to play maaad pranks on his crew. One I can remember was him taking someone's cell phone, and putting it under his belly fold for a couple of minutes, than putting it back. Dude picked it up to use it, and it stank like Pun's bellyfold sweat

LOL

lol .. some funny shit .. but Cormega witnessing his mothers death :O

2Pac was ready to sign Big Daddy Kane to his label Makaveli Records.

fuck, didn't know that


Yeah, they even did a track together in the studio. Its a dope ass tune. I'm sure it will be released void of BDK on an upcoming Pac record at some point, with some shitty modern artist in his place.

I remember that track, one of my favorite unreleased tracks

Technically, Ja Rule is only 7 years old

No bull

Iz he's birthday on tha leap year day or summat ??

Iz he's birthday on tha leap year day or summat ??


Fuck off you cocksucker.

*Neg Reps*

E-40 Created The Terms "O Boy","Pop Ya Collar","Fasho" and The Fa Shizzle's.. A

"pop ya collar" and "oh boy" yes
the "fa shizzles" aren't originally e-40's, that's oakland slang and it wasnt created by 40
with that said, fuck you for swagger jackin my sig you ho.

that shits raw about rza getting charged for muder...

yea keith murray snuffed prodigy at the tunnel in nyc...both of em rolled mad deep but p didnt fight back i guess...

i heard a story about the wu doing a concert right after 36 chambers dropped...method man was performing m.e.t.h.o.d. man and a local gang called him a pussy, and wu rolls like 300 deep to all their concerts and they fucked up that gang...i think it was in D.C. or balitmore...not sure though.

edit: i heard ghostface threw 50 down a flight of stairs and jumped tony yayo...any one clarify that?

LOL @ ghostface throwing 50 down the stairs.

Nothing happened between those, period. Use your logic, if some rapper had beat 50 down, let's not even talk about the fact that we're talking about ghostface, the whole fucking planet would be talking about it.

Stop beleiving anything because you'd wish it'd happen.

LMAO I LOVE THIS QUOTE ITS GOING IN MY SIG

NOT ALOT OF THIS IS NEWS BUT SOME OF IT IS

beat you to it

lol .. some funny shit .. but Cormega witnessing his mothers death :O

yeah i read it on wikipedia like a 2 months back