Hip-Hop Trivia

CorkMan

How about we give some useful, albeit, random facts in this thread about Hip-Hop. Some facts about rappers people might not know. I'll Start:

• Biggie was got his left leg crushed in an car accident 4 days after 2Pac died. He went down to the Lexus centre to see how damaged Lexus was, but it wasn't finished. He got a jeep for the time being and Lil Cease drove it as BIG didn't learn how to drive yet. Charli Baltimore was in the back seat.
  
• He attempted recuperation in the exact same room Christopher Reeves was in after he got paralyzed.
  
• He thus had to record all of Life After Death while sitting in a chair in the studio.

Makaveli

Raw I'm a give it to ya, with no trivia, raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia

yeah got nothing

CorkMan

• The intro to "Protect Ya Neck" was from an Interview Wu did in 1992. Different segments of the interview can be found on other songs on the album.
  
• The original instrumental of Protect Ya Neck was completely different, but RZA just wanted the vocals done and he mixed it in with the 36 Chambers version. The first order had Raekwon first and Inspektah Deck 2nd.

Boom_Bap

Before the day of recording Rappers delight, the 3 MC's never knew each other.

monkeysockss

Grandmaster Flash didn't rap The Message. He turned it down cos he thought it was too political but then mimed it for the video when he realised it was gonna go big.

And Public Enemy wrote Rebel Without a Pause after hearing Eric B and Rakim's I know you got Soul, and realised they had to up their game

Nolanger

Actor-writer Mannix Flynn released the first Irish rap record.

Makaveli

monkeysockss wrote: »

Grandmaster Flash didn't rap The Message. He turned it down cos he thought it was too political but then mimed it for the video when he realised it was gonna go big.

Melle Mel?

Boom_Bap

There is trivia galore in this:

http://www.complex.com/blog_galleries/combat-jack-presents-true-stories-behind-25-rap-classics/the-gas-face

Lots of behind the scenes stuff on 50, Jay, Bad Boy....