Hip Hop Facts

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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 Jersey 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 Niggas 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

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50 also made a diss track at ghostface and instead of dissing him ghostface and his people just beat the fuck out of g unit at a club

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50 also made a diss track at ghostface and instead of dissing him ghostface and his people just beat the fuck out of g unit at a club

lol hilarious...i thought esham gettin his ass whipped by bizzare is hilarious haha...

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Awesome post! I havnt even got half way yet. As old as it is cats need to read this shit!

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