(For all you Hiphop Junkies!)
Little Known Facts About Hip-Hop
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
-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.
-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 cla**ic 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.
-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 sh*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
dj premier stopped workin wit jeru the damaja…cuz jeru got pissed when premier was f*ckin his sister…
ghostface said on tony's money "this what happens when u dont give niggas they f*ckin money" in response to de la soul for not paying him for the track he was on he also jacked their beat
littles jacked alchemist chain at a recording studio
-According to Marley Marl, him and Cormega had already finished a whole album ready for release before Nas was due to release illmatic. It eventually fell through as Mega was sent to jail.
- Das EFX stole their iggedy style from UK hiphop outfit Demon Boyz while on tour with EPMD.
-Fritz(that nigga back in the day) used to sell bricks to Alpo, AZ, Rich Porter, Boy George, Tony Montana (Fat Joe's boy) and them. in other words, he supplied the dealers
-reason why curtis jackson took 50 cents name was because the real 50 cent had major beef wit supremes team & had em shook during his prime
-Masta Killa was the last member to join Wu
-Biggie did a 9 month bid in North Carolina
-Eric B had Large Professor beaten down on one occasion for Xtra P talking sh!t about not getting production credits and because he thought he was gettin' at him on "snake eyes".
p Diddy was a back up dancer for Kane & heavy d sometimes
- DMX is the only rapper ever to debut his first 5 albums at number 1.
- Redman got his start from being a local rapper on Yo! MTV Raps.
-R. Kelly had a secret wedding with Aaliyah when she was only 14 years old, but had to get an annolment when her parents found out.
-Big L was murdered as revenge for something his brother did. He was shot 8 times, including in the head, b/c the killer had a beef with his brother, who was in jail at the time.
- Dre named his 2nd cd, Chronic 2001 even though it came out in 99, b/c Suge Knight made a cd named Chronic 2000, a cd full of old Death Row tracks.
- If you listen to Many Men, at the beginning if you count the gun shots, there are only 8 instead of 9.
Trick Daddy was jumped and got his chain snatched at a show in Detroit for dissing Trick Trick a local Detroit rapper cause he thought he stole his name.
Scarface tried to commit suicide when he was younger.
buckshot was picked on in hgh school by the rest of BBC they would play mokey i the middle wit his quran
nobody in NWA had a criminal record
B.I.G. had some of his dudes run up in D&D studios and beat down Starang Wondah then had them put the phone to his ear while B.I.G. proceeded to tell him never to f*ck with him again. This was in retaliation for OGC's first video where they had a fake Biggie get beat down.
Starang admitted it on Heltah Skeltah's "I Ain't Havin That"
"like when i was up in D&D i caught 2 or 3 stitches / i was still gettin b*tches at the tunnel takin pictures"
Murder Inc. - A group featuring Jay-Z, DMX, and Ja Rule was supposed to come out when DMX and Ja Rule had a fallout
Triangle Offense- Joe Budden, Fabolous, and Paul Cain, the album would have came out if joe buddens debut album went platinum, but it didnt so the label didnt feel need to further explore the potential of that group.
Styles P. was only dissing rocafella and Jay-Z during the Beans and Jada beef in order to push jadas album kiss the game goodbye, when styels came out of prison he said he wished he could take it all back and do resoviour dogs part 2 wit "my niggas at the roc"
Sauce Money won a grammy for writing P.diddys verse on Every Breathe u take the BIG tribute.
Of Times the "N" Word appears on NWA'S Albums
1.Straight Outta Compton : 42
2.100 Miles And Runnin : 105
3.Efil4Zaggin : 249
Rappers who've survived shootings
01]Beanie Sigel
02]Big Noyd
03]B-Real
04]Bushwick Bill
05]Capone
06]Dr. Dre
07]Dresta
08]Fat Joe
09]Ghostface Killah
10]Krumb Snatcha
11]LV
12]Ol Dirty Bastard
13]Shyne
14]Slick Rick
5 Records That Changed Funk Master Flex's Life
1.The 1st Record I Ever Bought : One For The Treble - DAVY DMX
2.The 1st Record I Ever Stole : Impeach The President - The Honey Drippers
3.The 1st Record I Ever Scratched : Get Into The Mix - Dj Devine
4.The 1st Record I Ever Got For Free : Beat Box - Art Of Noise
5.The 1st Record I Ever Spun At A Club : Let The Music Play - Shannon
Tape Kingz Iain McNee's Top 10 Greatest Mixtapes Ever
01.Best Of Biggie Smalls-Dj Mister Cee
02.'95 Live-Doo Wop
03.Blends 1-Ron G
04.10/8/89-Kid Capri
05.52 Beats-Kid Capri
06.50 MC'S-Tony Touch
07.2/10/93-DJ S&S
08.Spring '93 Part II-Doo Wop
09.Five Deadly Venoms Of Brooklyn-Tony Touch
10.Bad Boy Volume 1-DJ Clue
Rejected Titles of 20 Rap Albums
01.Cypress Hill
Rejected : America's Most Blunted
Released As : Cypress Hill
02.Stetsasonic
Rejected : And This Band Played On
Released As : Blood, Sweat & No Tears
03.Illegal
Rejected : Black Little Bastards
Released As : The Untold Truth
04.Intelligent Hoodlum
Rejected : Black Rage
Released As : Tragedy-Saga Of A Hoodlum
05.Beastie Boys
Rejected : Don't Be A Faggot
Released As : Licensed To Ill
06.The Lady Of Rage
Rejected : Eargasms
Released As : Necessary Roughness
07.Diamond D
Rejected : Flavortism-The Sophomoric Effort
Released As : Hatred, Pa**ions & Infidelity
08.Puff Daddy & The Family
Rejected : Hell Up In Harlem
Released As : No Way Out
09.Scarface
Rejected : I'm Coming Agg
Released As : The World Is Yours
10.Nice & Smooth
Rejected : Just When You Thought It Was Over
Released As : Jewel Of The Nile
11.Coolio
Rejected : The Last Original Nigga
Released As : It Takes A Thief
12.Gravediggaz
Rejected : Niggamortis
Released As : 6 Feet Deep
13.Da Lench Mob
Rejected : Pin The Tail On The Honky
Released As : Guerillas In The Mist
14.The Pharcyde
Rejected : Revelations
Released As : Labcabincalifornia
15.Eric B. & Rakim
Rejected : Save The Children
Released As : Don't Sweat The Technique
16.LL Cool J
Rejected : Smithsonian
Released As : Mr.Smith
17.Dj Quik
Rejected : Starved Bandit
Released As : Safe + Sound
18.Run DMC
Rejected : Still Standing
Released As : Down With The King
19.Onyx
Rejected : Three The Hard Way
Released As : All We Got Iz Us
20.De La Soul
Rejected : We Fell Into A Bottle Of Plastic Shwingalokate
Released As : De La Soul Is Dead
-Dr. Dre isn't in his own song, Stranded On Death Row off of the Chronic cd.
-Dr. Dre isn't even in his own song, Xxxplosive off of the 2001 cd.
-It was originally a track by Dre called 'The Way I Be Pimpin' which was written by Royce Da 5'9? who also appeared on the hook, but this track was removed at the last minute and a new track was made with the beat (Xxxplosive)
-The intro to Illmatic was produced by Irv Gotti
rza owns the rights to the wu-tang name
michael jackson owns the copyrights to the happy birthday song(happy birthday to you,happy birthday to you etc. etc) 100% true, if you heard it on tv, he gets paid
nature dissed cormega on a dj clue mixtape upon cormega hearing it he walked up to ature in QB and said "ayo nature u hear that new clue" and puched ature i the face knocking him out
jermaine dupri was originally going to sign ludacris but was advised not to by lil jon
MC'S First Names…
1.Big Moon Dog-Big Punisher
2.Chill-O-Ski-Busta Rhymes
3.Kid Wizard-Rakim
4.MC Love Child-Q-Tip
5.MC New York-2Pac
6.Paul Juice-Large Professor
How 10 Rap Monikers Got Their Names…
01.Busta Rhymes-Oklahoma College Football players real name
02.C-BO-Short for cowboy
03.DMX-was a beatboxer took the name from the drum machine
04.E-40-his ability to drink four to five 40 oz's a day…
05.Grandmixer D.ST-Grandmixer DELANCEY STREET
06.Khujo (Goodie Mob)-After an AFRICAN slave who was given freedom after being illegaly shipped to america
07.LL COOL J-stole the name from DJ Cut Creator (cool jay at the time…)
08.Noreaga-named after the panamanian ruler
09.Dj Quik-C was taken out because he used to be a blood
10.Ras Ka**-inspired by a book about menelik II and ethiopian king
Acronyms
01.Big Daddy Kane-King Asiatic Nobody's Equal
02.B.O.X.-Beyond Ordinary Existence
03.DL (Hard To Obtain)-Down Low
04.DMC-Darryl MacDaniels, Devastating Mic Controller
05.DMX-Dark Man Of The Unknown
06.DV Alias Khrist-Deep Voice
07.MC Eiht-Experienced In Hardcore Thumpin
08.Guru-Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal
09.Ja Rule-Jeff Atkins Represents Unconditional Love's Existence
10.JDL (Cold Crush Brothers)-Jerry D. Lewis
11.Kool G Rap-Kool Genius Of Rap, Kool Giancana Rap
12.KRS-One-Knowledge Reigns Supremely Over Nearly Everyone
13.K-Solo-Kevin Self Organization Left Others
14.LL Cool J-Ladies Love Cool James
15.Memphis Bleek-Makin' Easy Money Pimpin' Hoe's In Style
16.Mr. Serv On-Surviving Every Rugged Vendetta On Me
17.N.A.R.D (Do Or Die)-Niggas Ain't Ready To Die
18.P.A. Mase (De La Soul)-Public Announcer Making A Soulful Effort
19.The PreC.I.S.E M.C.-Pre Beginning Change of Interest in Sister Effectiveness
20.Tash-Tough a** Son Of Harold
21.MC Twist-Talking With Innovative Street Terminology
Original Names of 15 Rap Groups
01.Band Aid Boys-Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
02.Disco Construction-The World Cla** Wreckin Cru'
03.DVX-Cypress Hill
04.Easy Street-De La Soul
05.High Tech-Black Moon
06.The Houserockers Crew-Fearless Four
07.The KA'S-Sugarhill Gang
08.The LD's, Force MC's-The Force MD's
09.New Crew-Main Source
10.Poetical Prophets-Mobb Deep
11.Simply Too Positive (STP)-Organized Konfusion
12.Square Roots-The Roots
13.3 The Hard Way-3rd Ba**
14.2 Shades Deep, Misfits Of The Outback-Outkast
15.The Warlocks-The Lox-D Block
16.All In Together Now-Wu Tang*
Jazo was offered a deal with Rocafella(500K) but he declined because he didnt want people to think that he needed Jay same reason why Sauce Money declined a deal with them aswell
FIRST TV SHOW DEDICATED TO HIP HOP "GRAFFITI ROCK" FEATURING NYC BREAKERS AND A BATTLE BETWEEN TREACHEROUS 3 AND RUN DMC
FIRST HIP HOP RADIO SHOW MR MAGIC, WHBI FM, 1979
FIRST MC SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL KURTIS BLOW, MERCURY
FIRST TV PERFORMANCE BY A MC GROUP FUNKY FOUR ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
FAMOUS MC / DJ BATTLES
COLD CRUSH FOUR -VS - FANTASTIC FIVE (Harlem World)
BAMMBATTA -VS- DISCO KING MARIO(the Bronx jr. high school 123
KOOL MOE DEE -VS- BUZY B
COLD CRUSH FOUR -VS- FORCE MC'S (Statin Island)
irv gotti can be seen in the "flava in ya ear" remix video
Kurtis Blow releases "The Breaks" on Mercury records (went on to sell more than a million copies).
1981-ABC's 20/20 shows the first national television coverage of the "Rap Phenomenon".
While touring in Oakland, UTFO asks a young local MC named Too Short to open up for them
The Fresh Fest concert tour, featuring Run-D.M.C., Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Fat Boys, and Newcleus, is hip-hop's first big money making tour ($3.5 million for 27 dates).
Houston, Texas native James Smith brings together "The Geto Boys". The original lineup consisted of MCs Raheim, Jukebox, DJ Ready Red, and Sir Rap-A-Lot. The group also featured Little Billy, a dancing dwarf who later joined full-time as Bushwick Bill. Following a short break-up in 1988, Smith called on local rhymers Willie D and multi-instrumentalist Akshun (later known as Scarface) to join the lineup.
N.W.A's follow-up record, 1991's "Niggaz4Life," sold 954,000 copies in its first weeks of release to become the first hardcore rap album to hit No. 1 on the charts, despite being banned by some record stores and seized by English authorities as obscene.
The best selling rap /R&B album ever in the US is CrazySexyCool by TLC which has reached sales of 11 million, surpa**ing MC Hammer's Please Don't Hurt 'Em which has sold 10 million units.
The Def squad - Mobb Deep beef goes like this:
-Prodigy makes that interlude on the Imfamous album talking about "rappers bragging about how much weed you smoke and using outer space words that don't make sense"
-Redman and Keith Murray (Who rolled with a crew called LOD - legion of doom) Take it personal and run into mobb deep at a club, in NY, not sure which one.
-Keith and prodigy exchange blows, he talks about it on "In the long run
saigon idolized mobb deep when he was yunger
50 cent appears in Method man and D'angelo video make ups 2 breakups
Keith Murray has a degree in English Literature.. that is why his rhymes are so well put together and somewhat complex.
kelis aborted two kids from pharrell
kayslay used to be a parking attendent
Mary J Blige got The Lox signed to Bad Boy he didnt like them to much but as a favor to mary he signed them
wyclef used to work in burger king
cam ron was offered a scholarship to play college ball and turned it down to be a rapper
after game dissed memphis bleek he responded with a freestyle over so seductive he also told game to meet up with him so he could f*ck him up game neva responded again
"braveheart party" which features may j blige on the hook is actually written by jay z(the hook)
The Lox had A physical Confrontation with puff during the "let the lox go" days. They were then banned from the BadBoy Offices
fat joe got an outta a miami hotel by cuba link
fat joe also got kicked outta the VMA's after dissin 50 cent, 50 cent and Tony Yayo only responded when police confirmed to them that Fat joe and TS (including Pistol Pete) had left the building
due to bein near bankrupt big pun's wife tried to auction off big pun's terror squad chain on ebay it only went to 50 thousand and didnt make the "reserve" price
obie trice sold his old couch on ebay
krs-one was homeless for a brief time
- on the "Armagedon" track on bone thugs -n- harmony's Art of war cd before pac's vers bizzy bone can heard saying "HE'S ALIVE HE'S ALIVE" in the background
Mathematics not only designed the famous Wu-Tang logo, but also SOME of the graphics on the Liquid Swords cover
RZA was charged of attempted murder and represented himself without a lawyer back in 91.
cappadonna taught Inspectah Deck how to rhyme.
In 1994, U-God's son (at the time a baby) was shot in a drive-by shootout in Park Hill Staten Island while playing outside, he got caught in the cross-fire. At the time U-God was on the road and had to hear the painful news via telephone. Thankfully he survived and is still alive today. His name is Donte.
Also back in 94, the cops raided 36 Chambers studio and arrested Ol' Dirty & inspectah Deck. I don't know the reasons.
The cover of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… was the first time Ghostface had appeared in a photograph without a mask.
The first album on Wu-Tang Records was supposed to be "Nothing New under The Sun" by Sunz Of Man. It was supposed to come out back in 1997 but they started all over again and released "The Last Shall Be First" instead in 1998.
Some of the skits on Killarmy's "Dirty Weaponry" are quotes from HBO's Spawn Animated series.
On Bobby Digital's Digital Bullet, The RZA is incorrectly credited as the producer for track 4 "It Must Be Bobby". That track was produced by Mathematics.
masta killa was a honorary 9th member..[wu-tang manual]
u-god was kicked off alot of tracks cuz rza thought his lyrics just wasnt cuttin it..[wu-tang manual]
rza and the crew took the protect ya neck video and brought it to ralph mcdaniels of video music box fame and asked him to play it. and he did. the rest is history.
flavor flav is rza's distant cousin.
hellz windstaff was the only track title used twice.[on liquid swords & forever.]
cocaine inspired many lyrics on the 36chambers album [wu-tang manual]
Denys Cowan of DC Comics Designed GZA's Liquid Swords Cover
ODB got robbed at his apartement and was shot in his back
ODB's dad was a cop
