Paul C was murdered by his wife and his brother
Showbiz has almost been sent upstate for attempted murder twice
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
LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee came to blows one night backstage.
Freddie Foxxx put a gun in Benzino’s(RSO AT THE TIME) mouth on the Flavor Unit tour bus, because Benzino would not stop talking shit 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 (Jimmy da Henchmen)
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.
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
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.
Not a single member of the group NWA had a criminal record
Number of times the word cat appears on NWA albums
Straight Outa Compon: 42
100 Miles and Runnin: 105
Efil4zaggin: 249
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 hence why in the video for “hot sex” he wore a mask
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*tty. 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 the rapper who took his place on the record was of course nasty Nas
Redman Smacked Prodigy around the time Hell On Earth was out b/c he was dissing Keith and Def Squad a year or so later keith murray himself slapped prodigy in a club(the tunnel in nyc)
When Nas came to Boston around 94/95 somebody in RSO Crew walked up to Nas and knocked his baseball hat off trying to start a problem nas let it go and walked away
MF Grimm was not only suppose to be on Live at the BBQ, but his joint with Kool G Rap for 4, 5, 6 was suppose to be the lead single but he was arrested again and G Rap went with the joint with Nas knwn as fast life
Fat Joe gave Guru a place to live for awhile when guru moved from boston to nyc
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
Pharrel use to carry records around for Teddy Riley he also produced and wrote ‘rump shaker”
The following rappers been robbed more than one time:
Busta Rymes
jazze phae
Nas
Dr. Dre
Shyheim from the wu
Mase(most famous for gettin his chain snatched at a knicks game)
Puff
Jermaine Dupri
camron
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”.
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
Everyone in CashMoney has done at least 2 years in prison
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
DJ Ready Red was kicked out of Geto Boys and shafted by J. Prince because of his lack of melanin
Kool G Raps verse
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