Some Hip-Hop Facts You Might Not Know

I said I would bring you this every Saturday, so, below are 11 Hip-Hop Facts You Might Not Know.


11. Back in the late 90s, Big Pun hit Jay-Z on the head with a bottle at a club, when Jay didn't want to vacate the stage for Pun and Fat Joe.



10. Back in the 80s, when Rakim and Big Daddy Kane were the Nas and Jay-Z of that era; Rakim recorded a diss track aimed at Big Daddy Kane for his "Let The Rhythm Hit Em" album. Kane heard about this, called up Rakim to squash it, and Rakim scrapped the track.



9.  Pharell used to carry records around for Teddy Riley back in the day.


8.  Rakim was still in High School when Paid In Full (his critically acclaimed debut album) dropped.



7.  Suge Knights Paid a street nigga $5,000 to attack Dr. Dre at the Vibes Awards back in 2004. The individual succeed in disgracing Dr. Dre as he swung punches at Dre while the doc was walking to the stage to collect his Life Time Achievement award ...Young Buck came to Dre's rescue, and stabbed the assailant with a butter knife.



6.  Around 2000, Before 50 Cent blew up big time, he had beef with Ja Rule, and after making a dis track aimed at the whole Murder Inc, they caught up with him at the Hit Factory (a studio), and gave him a beating...Black Child (one of the members of Murder Inc) stabbed 50 multiple times. There are documents to back this.



5.  Da Brat is the first female rapper to sell platinum (over a million copies) with an album; that was with Funkdafied back in 1994.








4.  DMX is the only rapper to debut his first 5 albums at number 1.



3.  R.Kelly had a secret marriage with Aaliyah when she was only 14, and had to get an annulment when her parents found out.













2.  50 Cent got shot 3 times (in the mouth, in the hand, and the leg), as opposed to his claims of getting shot 9 times. The killer, Homo (short for homicide) let off 9 shorts, but his hand was shaking, and he only hit 50 Cent 3 times.

1.  Fat joe had Cuban Link's face sliced in a night club some years back for talking reckless about him. Cuban was a member of his Terror Squad clique, but he was brought in by the late Big Pun. And, when Pun died in 2000, Cuban and Joe had a falling out.