Some Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

Okay, I am here again to "edu-tain" you. I put this up every Saturday, so If you like reading it, make sure you always check back on Saturdays...remember, it's kaysrapzone.blogspot.com at your service. Below are 7 Hip Hop facts you might not know.










7.  Black Eyed Peas song, "I Gotta Feeling" is the first single ever to sell more than one million downloads in the United Kingdom.












6.  In the new movie, Spring Breakers which stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, Gucci Mane had a sex scene, which happens to be a real sex session. The movie director said it himself that he went out and looked for a big booty girl that would catch Gucci's fancy. During the filming of the particular scene, Gucci said he would rather have the girl ride him cos he was tired, and he ended up falling asleep while they were filming. The director said that's the actual cut that made the movie...no edit.




5.  Tupac's 5th album, The Don- Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996) was recorded within a space of a week. He wrote the lyrics and recorded the whole album (12 track album) in 3 days; and mixing took an additional 4 days. Unfortunately, he was killed a few weeks after completing the album. It was released posthumously, and went on to sell 4 million copies in the U.S alone.



4.  From 1996-1998, Foxy Brown was in a rap group called The Firm,  with Nas, AZ,  and Nature. Around that same time, she was more or less Jay-Z's right hand lady...they recorded countless songs togther, including Ain't No Nigga, which was the hit single of Jay's debut album, Reasonable Doubt. It is funny cos at the time, Nas and Jay-Z were already at war...cold war...and they never crossed parts.




3.  Nas has 3 albums that have received 5 mics ratings (Classic Rating) from the Source Magazine- Illmatic (1994), Stillmatic (2001), and Life Is Good (2012). No other rapper or rap group has achieved that.



2.  Lil Kim and Foxy Brown used to be close friends around 1995-1996, when they were both getting into the game. Close sources say they would spend hours on the phone discussing music, and their future plans. They were even meant to record a collabo album (Thelma & Louise) together in 1997, which never materialized. Things started turning ugly when they dropped their debut albums in the same month (November) of 1996, and the competitive nature of the Hip Hop scene made people close to them turn then against each other. They began a war of words in the late 90s, and it has been on since then.

1.  Although Game came on the scene two years after 50 Cent blew up with "Get Rich Or Die Trying", they were signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records around the same time. Game even made an appearance in 50 Cent's In Da Club video back in 2003.