Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

Pardon me for not putting this up yesterday, I got carried away by some business I was trying to sort out. So, here we go again. Below are some Hip Hop facts you might not know.



5.  When Lil Wayne's Cash Money Records deal expired in 2006, Jay-Z tried to sign him to Rocafella Records for a reported $5 million. But Jay made the mistake of telling Birdman about it. Birdman quickly sent a legal paper of warning to the Roc office the next couple of days, and worked out a new contract with Wayne... which included him having his own label (Young Money Records).








4.  Eminem's second album, The Marshall Mathers LP is the best selling Hip Hop album of all time. It has sold 22 million copies globally to date, and is still selling.







3.  Jay-Z had been trying to get his rap career popping since he was Jaz-O's side kick in 1989, when he was just 19. He didn't drop his first album (Reasonable Doubt) till 7 years later, when he was 26 years old.











2.  Although he no longer holds the title, in 2001, Busta Rhymes was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for having said the most syllables in one second.







1.  Most of the rappers that Dr. Dre has mentored in his career have been shot multiple times and survived. Before signing to Suge and Dre's Death Row Records, Tupac had been shot 5 times outside the Quad studio in 1994. Game was shot 5 times in 2001, when a couple of people gained access into his apartment with the intent of buying weed from the rapper. And we all know 50 Cent was shot 9 times (3 times actually...he was shot at 9 times, but 3 bullets hit him) back in 2000.