Some Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

I like to put this up every week cos I believe there are so many hip hop facts people might not know. I think this will help people have a better understanding of the Hip Hop world. Below are 5 Hip Hop facts you might not know...enjoy the read.




5.  Drake has surpassed Jay-Z to become the rapper with the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart. Jay has 9 No. 1's, Drake currently has 10...and counting.














4.  Not only is DMX the only rapper, he is the only musical artist in history to release his first 5 albums, and have them all debut at No. 1. "It's Dark And Hell Is Hot" (1998), "Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood" (1998), "And Then There Was X..." (1999), "The Great Depression" (2001), and "Grand Champ" (2004) all debuted at No.1.











3.  Kick In The Door, a track off the late Biggie's Life After Death album was a diss record aimed at Nas, Raekwon and a a couple of other rappers. Raekwon and Biggie never got along, and on his Purple Tape (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...) album in 1995, on a track titled Ice Water, he had some lines aimed at biggie-

"That's life, to top it all off, beef for white
pullin bleach out tryin to throw it in my eyesight"


Biggie was going by an alias at the time, Frank White. Big hit back with these lines off Kick in the Door-


"Fuck that, why try, throw bleach in your eye"

And for Nas, Biggie was on the Source Magazine cover in 1996, with the title- King Of New York. Nas had been known as the King Of New York around 1994/1995. So, he sent a subliminal at Biggie on his The Message track, off his It Was Written (1996) album. Check out the lines from Nas below-

"Yo let me let y'all niggaz know one thing
There's one life, one love, so there can only be one King"

Big hit back on Kick in the Door with these lines.

"Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns
As I crush so-called willies, thugs, and rapper-dons
Get in that ass, quick fast, like ramadan...

...Ain't no other kings in this rap thing
They siblings, nothing but my chil'ren
One shot, they disappearin'
It's ill when MC's used to be on cruddy shit
Took home Ready to Die, listened, studied shit
Now they on some money shit, successful out the blue"

The last line above is talking about how Nas was so street on Illmatic, but became a Mafioso rapper on It Was Written. After all of that, Biggie still shouted out Nas on the Thank You page of Life After Death's booklet.

2.  Lil Kim and Missy Elliot are the only female rappers that have at least 3 platinum selling albums. Lil Kim- Hardcore (1996), Notorious Kim (2000), La Bella Mafia (2003). Missy Elliot- Supa Dupa Fly (1997), Tha Real World (1999), Miss E...So Addictive (2001), Under Construction (2002)












1.  Canibus and LL Cool J had beef back in 1998Canibus was just getting into the game. Even though LL was a already a rap legend at the time, Canibus won the battle with his Second Round K.O track, which some put up there with Tupac's Hit Em Up, and Nas's Ether, as one of the greatest beef songs of all time. It is rumoured that this caused LL to use his power in the industry to blackball Canibus.
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Some Hip Hop Facts You Might Not Know

I used to put this up on Saturdays, but I got sick a while back, and I just couldn't keep up. I want to start posting this it on Fridays now. You can use the search bottom on the top left corner of this page if you want to read past post in this series.


Anyway, below are 5 Hip Hop facts you might not know-






5.  In 1995, Tupac became the first musician to have an album at Number 1 while in jail; he achieved that with his Me Against The World album.












4. Back in 1999, when people were just getting over the deaths of Tupac and Biggie, west coast rapper, Kurrupt almost started another coastal war. He had been engaged to Foxy Brown, but she wasn't faithful, and he found that she had been sleeping with DMX. Instead of facing X squarely, he directed his anger towards the whole coast. And on his dis track, Callin'Out Names, he went at DMX, The Firm (Nas, AZ, Nature & Foxy Brown), Ruff Ryderz (cos that's DMX's crew)...and some other East coast rappers.




4.  Dr. Dre wears a fresh pair of Nike Air Force Ones every day.













2.  Before J.Cole got signed as a rapper under Jay-Z's Roc Nation label, he had a t-shirt with the inscriptions- "Produce For Jay-Z or Die" that he used to wear around.

1.  Drake and J.Cole are biracial; they both have Negro fathers and Caucasian mothers.