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
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