Some Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

I almost didn't post this up today, but here we go again...below are 7 Hip-Hop facts you might not know.







7.  Ice Cube's EP, Kill At Will was the first EP to go platinum.










6.  50 Cent co-owns a movie production company (Cheetah Vision) with Randall Emmett, and has a $200 million deal with Lionsgate to produce 10 movies; an average of $20 million to be spent on each movie. Setup, All Things Fall Apart and Freelance are some of the movies that have been released through the company.




5.  The legendary Eric B did body guard work for both Suge Knight and Mike Tyson back in the 90s.




4.  Nas is the only solo rapper with two "5 mics" albums- Illmatic (1994), and Stillmatic (2001). In case you don't know, 5 mics is a rating from The Source Magazine for a classic album.





3.  Tyga was once a part of the musical group, Gym Class Heroes.









2.  Except for 2004's Encore, all Eminem's albums have won Grammy Awards...that is a total of 5 awards for best rap album.





1.  Back in the early 90s, the late Eazy E was invited to the white house to have lunch with the then President of the United States- George Bush senior.




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