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

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 ....

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...

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....

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 ....

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. ...

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. .....

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. ....

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. ...

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 Southernplayalistica dillacmuzik 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". ....

Nelly was scouted by the St. Louis Cardinals when he was in High School ....

Mase taught Jim Jones how to rap .....

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

Rick Rubin came up with the name DefJam and the logo ....

Jay-Z wrote Memphis Bleek's verse on that song from Reasonable Doubt and told Bleek he could use it only if he could memorize it and recite back to him in 24 hrs. ...

BIG lost his original record deal because Patti La Belle was offended by "Dreams of XXXXXXX an R&B XXXXX". ...

Timbaland & Pharrell made a group when they were in High School .....

Krayzie shot Wish Bone in the back of the leg with a shotgun when they ere yung(listen to I Remember frum Gemini:Good Vs. Evil) ......

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

Jay-z shot his brother for stealing money from him ...

Lil Wayne shot himslef 2 times ....

JD is rich as hell for ghostwriting most of Usher's cds ...

T.I. ghostwrote for bow wow ....

rakim wrote some verses for 'paid in full' three years before the album came out ... that wouldve meant he wrote that XXXX around the ages of 14/15 ...XXXX....

Prodigy and Havoc both attend the same high school before they got a record deal. ....

Dame Dash played a swordsman named Carlos in Highlander: Endgam .....

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. .....

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. .....

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....

jay and mase had a little beef Supposedly it was a misunderstanding.
mase got at them on his opening track on harlem world.
jay got at him on "imaginary player" vol. 1. .....

Angie Stone was Signed to Sugar Hill records as a rapper....

Nas was suppose to be on "CAN I LIVE PT 1" by Jay-z....Nas didnt show up at last minute and Reasonable Doubt had was deadlined for the Next day....So Jayz had to hurry up and WRITE the 2nd Verse of it in 20 minutes and record it by himslef....Alot of people say this was the begining of a long standing fued ......

Style's P Attacked Puffy with Chair...(Security saved his XXX) ........

Beanie Sigel knocked out Gillie the Kid on South street in front of Whole Cash Money crew when the NBA all star game was there ........

NAS wrote "MIAMI" for Will Smith ......

2Pac was ready to sign Big Daddy Kane to his label Makaveli Records. .....

AZ was in one of Jay-Z's videos. ....

Tigger from Rap Citys the basement as well as Mystikal where cheerleaders in highschool ....

Cash Money Records was started from dope money back in 92'.....

Lil Wayne was signed to CMR at the age of 10, and him and BG(than called Lil Doogie) was in a group called the B.G.'z. Than he shot accidently himself than his daddy died so he layed off the mic for a minute. ...

BG been using heroin since the age of 15. ...

Lil Wayne ghostwrote for Bow Wow before. ....

Juvenile is actually in is mid 30's. .....

Baby is the legal gaurdian of Lil Wayne ......

Kim had her XXX whopped by Faith over B.I.G .....

Mary J Blige was a cokehead ......

Roxanne Shante got pregnant when she was 15 years old ....

Suposedly Lauryn Hill became a recluse the last 3 years or so and became apart of a strange cult with beliefs in Religious mysticism. Repordetly the cult has been draining her money and time. She suposedly has recently snapped out of it and is ready to work on the new fugees joint. .....

R. Kelly worked the drive through at Mc Donalds for an hour in St. Louis at a stop during the best of both worlds tour. ......

T.I. has 2 kids with Xscape singer Tiny ....

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

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

T.I. says urban legend was a paperless album. implying he keeps his raps in his head like jay or freestyles. (it seems everyone is tryin to do this now...) .....

Master P entered the NBA draft and for a brief stint played for the denver nugggets. ......

2pac used to call weed candy. ....

Daz and warren G went uncredited for a lot of co production on "Tha Chronic" .....

Treach did a prono......

ODB got gonorreha twice from the same woman. ...

Roxanne Shante legally jacked her label for over $100,000 for education, and has done well with her life (even though she ain't released [censored] for years). ....

Method Man was dusted during the recording of the Mary J. Blige "All I Need" video. (That explains some of his facial features in the video) .......

John Forte was busted for drug trafficking, and was caught with something like 30 pounds of yay. ....

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 murdered. 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.........

No Limit Curse: Master P filed bankruptcy. Soulja Slim was murdered. Mystikal in jail for rape. C- murder in jail for ummmm murder. Mac in jail for murder. Kane and Abel served 4 years for running drugs. Mia X is M.I.A. Mercedes strips now.....the list goes on....

The first person to give Nas his start at solo stardom was M.C Serch one third of the white rap group 3rd bass. .....

The New York Post a respected newspaper ran the offensive and disrespectfull headline about ODB's death "Dead Dirty Bastard" .....

When Skillz first album dropped he was still valet parking at a famous restraunt in Virginia .....

ODB had 7 kids not 13 as at first widely publicized ......

Once Ghostface Killah was a guest at the "Rap City" TV programm. Cappadonna joined him later, coming with a briefcase in his hands. Tigga asked Ghost about the contents of that briefcase but Ghost didn't say a word. Then Tigga started smiling and XXXX, so Ghost asked him smth like: "Do I look funny or what? I'm not joking, so stop XXXXXXX smiling at me". ......

Back in the days when 50 wasn't popular, he got dismissed from a club for dissing Ghostface Killah ! .....

RZA didn't like that Jay-Z called himself Jigga - because it sounds similar to GZA. .....

Method Man once said that he likes working with Redman more than with the WU. .....


I've heard that Ghostface Killah has some kind of diabetes so he doesn't drink any alcohol. .....

Method Man was one of the most favourite rapper of Notorious B.I.G. .......

While reading a magazine, Method Man found out that a video game "WuâTang Shaolin Style" came out for Sony Playstation. He got mad at the rest of the Clan for not telling him about that. Later he stated that this game was not that good, mainly because of the characters' movements