Some more interesting facts
- The Game's mother owns a strip club, early in Game's career he used to strip there under the Moniker "Hurricane" n/h, the name would later be used for his shoe line with 310 Motors "The Hurricane". Game has also appeared on reality TV shows such as Change of Heart.
- Young Buck had a blood transfusion after getting shot twice at his trap house
- The Game has been shot 5 times
- Mike Tyson knocked out Wesley Snipes in an NY washroom because Snipes was flirting (unknowingly) with a girlfriend of Mike's.
- G-Dep ghostwrote "We Invented The Remix"
- Cam'ron has slept with Mariah Carey, Lindsay Lohan and actress Alyssa Milano, it is also alleged that he slept with Jessica Alba as well
- Rakim and Big Daddy Kane at one point didn't like each other and almost ignited what would have been Hip-Hop's first major beef
- Lil Flip was a straight A student in High School
- According to Pac's alleged father who was at the hospital after Pac was first shot in NY, Biggie came to visit Pac in the hospital.
- In Superhead's infamous memoir, the large majority of her book was in fact fabricated and/or taken from other women's experiences in the industry. The alias "Daddy" was declared to be Method Man after her publisher refused to release her second book without controversy to help sell it. This was confirmed by Karrine in a podcast she did and on Jamie Foxx's Foxxhole Radio show. Method Man vehemently denied the rumors, his wife was in the hospital battling cancer when the news dropped. She later passed away.
- Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch were renting jewellry from 2002 to 2007 (which is why you never saw them with consistent chains or jewels)
- When Young Buck's assets were put up for auction due to him filing for bankruptcy, the only thing he came back to buy back was his famous YB spinning logo chain, which had cost him 100k to have made and he bought back for $12,000.
- Mack 10 used to beat T-Boz when they were married and is the reason why they broke up
- Lil Wayne has writers for his albums and that is the reason why they vary in quality from Carter to Carter. Gillie Da Kid & Curren$y are said to have helped co-write the Carter 1, Carter 2 and 3. Carter 4 & 5 is said to have been written by Euro and Drake.
- Drake has ghostwriters for Take Care, Partynextdoor, The Weeknd helped write his second album.
- Many rappers such as Rick Ross, RZA and even Snoop Dogg are accomplished painters in their own time
- Busta Rhymes is a closeted Homosexual
- Eminem is actually a ginger and has natural red hair, he dyed his hair brown as a kid to avoid getting bullied
- Puff Daddy was a backup singer long before he produced or rapped. He did back-up for Heavy D, Big Daddy Kane and many other groups. This is also how he managed to meet Jay-Z who at the time was under Big Daddy Kane's tutelage.
- People forget that before Jaz-O, Jay-Z actually came up under Big Daddy Kane and learned a lot of what he learned from him in terms of the business side of music.
- while Jay-Z was having issues with writing a song, it was actually Biggie Smalls who suggested he don't write and just go off the dome as it was easier to come off coherent and flow versus reading off a paper. Jay-Z said it came natural to him because when he was on the block he would memorize lines so he could later write down. (source: Decoded)
- Just Blaze actually went into production so that he could pay for more video games
- I Gotta Story to Tell is about John Starks and his wife at the time
- Guru used to sleep on Fat Joe's couch early on in his career
- ironically, when NWA came out not one member in the group had a criminal record... think about that....
- Slim Thug is an accomplished real estate investor and made a million dollars and drove a Rolls-Royce before he signed a deal with The Neptunes. Part of that was the reason why Pharrell signed him to his label. It was actually Slim Thug who put him on to Black American Express Cards, something that Slim still don't get credit for when that was a popular thing in rap.
- many rappers actually draw or paint in their spare time: Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Wale,
- Mya fucked with a lot of niggas including (but not limited to) Baron Davis, D'Angelo, DMX, Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, The Game, Sean Paul, Gucci Mane, Maino, Pras, Julius Peppers, Nelly, several ball players, and more
- Meagan Goode has been passed around more times then the collection plate at Church (joseph gordon levitt, Thomas Jones, Nick Cannon, 50 Cent, Jamie Foxx, Tyrese & many more)
- Sauce Money wrote Biggie's "I'll Be Missing You" song
- Rocsi Diaz of 106 & Park used to blackmail artists into sleeping with her in order to get favorable praise while on 106. Andre 3000, 50 Cent and LL Cool J refused her advances (this is why she went in on LL and 50). DJ Whoo Kid, Floyd Mayweather, Tyrese, Lloyd Banks, and many others have fucked Rocsi. There's a lot of people I know she slept with but fuck it's tiring writing it all out LOLOLOLOL SMMFH.
- Tupac had a small charity foundation where he'd give jobs to felons fresh out of jail & a mentor for kids, at times he'd show up to their hoods & schools and buy everybody pizza, clothes & pay people's rent.
- The scar on Dame Dash's head came from an incident in France where he got hit over the head with a bottle during a scuffle
- Oschino of State Property fame has been shot 11 times, all on different occasions
