1.Only a few MCs wrote their own rhymes in NWA

2.Redman and Dead Prez graduated from college

3.Members of Onyx were barbers before they became rappers

4.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

5.50 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

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

7.Nas wrote NY State Of Mind when he was 17

8.Jay-z and Busta Rhymes attended the same high school and once battled in a hallway

9.Yeah Ashanti is in the “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know” video

10.Jermain Dupri was the youngest producer ever to go platinum

11.Snoop Dogg went to school with Camron Diaz

12.Esham, a pioneer in horrorcore rap in detroit, wrote some of the most vicious diss tracks to eminem….so Bizzare of D-12 responded with sending Esham to the hospital with a ruptured eyeball, a mild concussion and loss of hearin in his left ear

13.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

14.DMX used to stand for “Divine Master of the unknown”

15.The Neptunes got some influence from old atari’s music/sfx

16.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

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

18.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)

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

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

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

22.Bone Thugs where homeless when they got to LA

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

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

25.J-Bo from Youngbloodz and Andre 3000 are cousins

26.Rakim wrote some verses for ‘paid in full’ three years before the album came out … that wouldve meant he wrote that around the ages of 14/15 …damn

27.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.

28.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…

29.That Order Of Protection against 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.

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

31.The Game is in gta san andreas (his voice only)

32.Lil Wayne Shot Himself When He Was 9

33.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.

34.Lil Kim had her ass whopped by Faith over B.I.G

35.Mary J Blige was a cokehead

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

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

38.Big L’s death was a case of mistaken identity. The shooter(s?) thought that it wuz his cousin

39.Big Pun used to play mad 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

40.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 ed. 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………

41.Guru from rap duo Gang Starr appeared as “8-Ball” in popular game Grand Theft Auto 3

42.MF Doom was actually born in London England

43.Nas went through a stage in his career where he went by the name “Nas Escobar”, after infamous Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

44.Big Pun widow/family does not receive any royalties for Pun’s music

45.Big L’s first release “Devils Son” was banned from radio, as he rapped about being the son of Satan and pistol whipping a church priest.

46.Remy Ma got her name from the alcoholic drink Remy Martin, although she admits she can’t stomach the drink.

47.The Game got his name from his grandmother, as he is a talented basketball player and his grandmother used to refer to him as “The Game” after having watch him play.

48.Freddie Foxxx put a gun in Benzino’s mouth on the Flavor Unit tour bus, because Benzino would not stop talking shit about what a thug he was

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

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

51.Q Tip got fucked up so bad by one of the members of Wrexx N Effect that he lost partial sight in one of his eyes

52.Grandmaster Caz wrote Rappers Delight

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

54.Suge doesnt like Game because he exposed some of Death Row business (stuff about Harry-O) and because he is not really a blood.

55.Jaheim is in fact gay, i hear he was spotted in atlanta arguing with his boyfriend over dropping his purse or something in the middle of the street.

56.Queen Latifah is certified 100% lez, she just hasent announced it yet

57.Baby has a brother who’s LEGENDARY in new orleans, now serving 500 some odd years in jail for various murders

58.Ice Cube got beat up for his “W” chain supposedly by someone from the Soul Assassins camp when him and B-Real were beefin

59.The Game isn’t welcomed in the bay

60.C-bo is in jail for shootin his baby momma

61.Suge knight paid that cat $5000 to snuff Dr.Dre at the vibe awards specifically during his lifetime acheivement award segment.

62.50 cent & ja rule’s beef never started be4 they were famous. they didnt even kno each other, real reason’s because ja was rollin with his posse one day just after he got famous, saw 50 cent rollin alone (after how to rob) started talkin shit so 50 clapped him dead in his eye. this was before blackchild poked him with a knife.

63.Pete Rock was nailing Nas’ baby momma and Nas got wind of this and thats why they dont work together anymore

64.Master P tied up and pistol whipped Pimp C (R.I.P.) after UGK were running around and telling everyone how P didn’t pay them for their guest appearances

65.Krayzie Bone beat up Prodigy

66.Styles p wanted to fuck up eminem because of the whole “fuckin fiasco” & almost did it while Em was recording a track for jada’s album.

67.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.

68.P Diddy was a back up dancer for Kane & heavy d sometimes

69.Treach (naughty by nature)has done Porn movies and is Pepas (salt n pepa)babydaddy

70.Memphis bleek is not fake as everybody thinks, he actually sold drugs, he was actually pushin weight when he met jay, before the rap shit started poppin off jay made him stop because he was only 15

71.Most of Wu Tang used to be angel-dust heads.Ghostface admits this in an interview “I was a dusthead”

72.U-God has beef with the Rza over Money

73.Biggie was not the playa he claimed to be, he never started gettin women until he got money, his bm looks like a man

74.The Song “Cry” was a real song about Jay-Z’s longtime girlfriend

75.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.

76.2pac had relationships with a few celebrities on the low, Jada Pinkett and Quincy Jones’s daughter to name some

77.Ice Cube isnt from Compton and went to a college in Arizona, he was never a gangsta.

78.Scarface tried to commit suicide when he was younger.

79.AZ supposedly fucked lil Kim & foxy brown.

80.The Game claims he caught his first body on March 4 1994

81.Fat Joe personally buck fifty’ed Cuban Link

82.Fat Joe writes 25% of his lyrics he has a team of ghostwriters

83.C Murder slaped the shit out of Juvenile in a disagreement.

84.According to DMX, K-Solo battled him in jail and completely jacked his style of spelling out words in his rhymes

85.trick daddy used to smoke danks(coke n cripy) for years

86.Big Pun was over 600 pounds when he died

87.Cage (bi polar), Scarface (depression) & Kool Keith (depression) have all spent time in mental institutes

88.The Beastie Boys were the first rap act to reach #1 on the Billboard charts

89.KRS One has released 14 albums over his career

90.Mystikal’s sister was killed by boyfriend which was a rapper from UNLV

91.Big L was rocafella when he died

92.Cormega was a signature away from reppin the roc.

93.Vanilla Ice was beat up by suge and hung out his balcony and forced to drink piss. All because Suge wanted the royalties to Ice Ice Baby.

94.Black Child From Murder Inc Stabbed 50 cent

95.Lil Kim suffers from low self-esteem partly because biggie used to verbally & physically abuse her.

96.mariah carey is the token industry whore, rumors of everybody from 50 cent & eminem to puffy & mase have passed that ass around like a peacepipe.

97.tony yayo was not thoro in jail, he stayed in solitary the entire time outta fear

98.Biggie apparently wanted to mimic the production line up on Illmatic when doing Ready To Die. Puff shot down the idea

99.Charlie Baltimore sucked irv gotti’s dick to get signed, this is her main talent & is the reason she’s famous

100.Puffy got caught gettin’ head from a dude (rumors has it that it was Mr.Bentley)

(via community.allhiphop.com)