Some Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

Yep! It's Saturday again, and below are 11 Hip-Hop facts you might not know.







11.  Fat Joe booked Biggie's first paid show in the Bronx back in the early 90s.

10.  Big Pun was the first Latin rapper to go multi-platinum.












9.  Royce Da 5'9 ghost-wrote "The Message" for Dr. Dre on his Chronic 2001 album; Dre's second album, which dropped in 1999.









11. Sisqo had always been rumoured to be Gay, but the stories weren't confirmed until his well-built boyfriend came to see him backstage after a show in 2000, and they ended up in a lip-lock. Lil Kim narrated the story recently, saying- “Man, I seen some weird shit in this game. One of the illest shit I’ve ever seen was when Sisqo was taken out of Missy’s dressing room by a gladiator gay dude. We all saw them kissing. Sisqo didn’t give a fuck, he made out with his macho man boyfriend in front of everybody.
If we had IPhones back then, these Nicca’s would be finished.”



10. Tupac's track, Me & My Girlfriend, which was about a gun, was inspired by Nas's "I Gave You Power" song. According to Young Noble of the Outlawz, Tupac heard ‘I Gave You Power’ in a studio out in North Hollywood in the Summer of 1996 and was amazed at the creativity and power of the track, and was inspired to make "Me & My Girlfriend."



7.  Ludacris still drives his old 1992 Acura Legend because it helps him go to public places without being noticed.



5.  Tupac had sex with all the girls in his "How Do You Want It" video. He even said that he almost fainted.




4.  The late Big Pun was a star athlete in his youth. After he got rich off the streets, he wanted to enjoy the life he had missed out, and started eating too much till he became obese.








3.  KRS One decided to become a rapper after he was picked on and dissed by a rapper while he was watching a rap battle. He felt so bad that the rapper had used his torn up jeans in his battle rap, and from that day, he put his heart into becoming a rapper.







2.  For the 27 years Dr. Dre has been in the music industry, he has only spent 2 weeks out of the studio: he literally lives in the studio...TRUE STORY.




1.  Tupac has released more albums after his death than while alive- he released 4 while alive, and 6 posthumous.




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