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1. The Mercedes Ladies were the first all-female rap group.

 

2. P. Diddy used to be a back-up dancer for Big Daddy Kane and Heavy D

 

3. Nas co-wrote Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” and it was the only Grammy Award-winning project of his career.

 

4. Lupe Fiasco admitted that Lasers is about his own inner battle with suicide. He said, “I wrestled with suicide. [I wanted to] document that in a song, explain to people what the fight of it is. There’s this wrestling with fame and success: How much is enough? How much of this money can I blow on Ferraris? What level of fame [shows] that I made it? Is it when the paparazzi are chasing me down the streets? Then I’m famous? Or am I famous now?”

 

5. Andre 3000 went abstinent before ATLiens came out.

 

6. Ghostface Killah beat up Mase so badly that he had to have his jaw wired.

 

7. DMX used to collect bugs.

 

8. Lil’ Kim was at one time pregnant with Biggie’s baby, but had a miscarriage. She also used to transport drugs on the bus system for him.

 

9. In Poetic Justice, 2Pac was supposed to have a sex scene with Janet Jackson, but it didn’t end up being shot because he refused to get an HIV test.

 

10. N.O.R.E. did time for murder when he was a juvenile.

 

11. Jay-Z shot his brother for stealing money from him.

 

12. Lil Wayne shot himself twice.

 

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13. Dr. Dre didn’t start smoking weed until he met Snoop. So when he raps “I don’t smoke weed or cess” in N.W.A’s 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, he wasn’t lying. At the time he really didn’t.

 

14. Nas dropped out of school in the 7th grade.

 

15. When Biggie was recording “Notorious Thugs,” he wanted to practice his Bone Thugs style freely and unencumbered, and so he sent everyone out of the room while he practiced by himself.

 

16. Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes went to high school together and once battled in their school cafeteria. DMX and Biggie also went to the same school.

 

17. Gwen Stefani has won the same amount of Rap Grammys as Nas, Drake, 50 Cent, and Busta Rhymes combined.

 

18. In VHI’s 2002 documentary on Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes from TLC entitled The Last Day of Left Eye, she admits to referring to her drunk self as “Nikki”.

 

19. Not a single member of the group N.W.A had a criminal record.

 

20. Both Jay-Z and Dame Dash (co-founders of Roc-A-Fella) were in love with Aaliyah.

 

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