Hookz said - The Reason B.I.G Changed His Orginal Name Biggie Smalls To The Notorious B.I.G Is Because The Original Biggie Smalls From California Punked Biggie Into Changing His Name.

Pretty hard to believe.

BG Knoccout and Dresta (from Eazy'z click) ran up on the Dogg Pound at a golf event (wtf lol) (i think nate to be exact) and started swingin at them with a club and everyone that was there (rappers, people etc) was runnin like bi#ches
RIP E

thats one the beef cd

nate got gangsta and started going nuts with a club

big war, good lookin on the feedback

n1ggas thinkin im makin up sh1t as i go along, everything i wrote in here has been rumored for years, i never came up with this sh1t just to fill the thread

yes, some are true & some are false but i wouldnt post absolute bullsh1t i made up, nas really said that, i read it in the mag myself, good looks on the magazine correction

Nate Dogg Held Up 4 Taco bells

And Kurupt used to sleep with 12 year olds all the time

FInally....
Snoop Dogg really did shoot that guy

Daz is/was fu#kin Kurupts lil sister

Kurupt got with a girl Daz was tryin to Hollar at, then Mike Dean (rap -a -lot producer) said Daz was cryin and to comfort him by showin him nud3 pics of his wifey (tanya herron the singer) LMAO

Any truth to this?

Tray Dee got arrested and is servin time (FACT)...But what was it for...I hear it was for shootin at snoop, but most recently i heard it was for shootin at some dudes claimin the wrong set and rollin in a stolen car

THE NAME HIP HOP WAS FIRST USED AS THE NAME OF OUR CULTURE BY AFRICA BAMBATTA BACK IN THE EARLY 80'S....
BEFORE THAT THE WORD HIP HOP WAS A PHRASE THAT MC'S SAID ON THE MIC.

FIRST DJ TO SCRATCH DJ GRAND WIZARD THEODORE I 1975 AT AGE THIRTEEN

FIRST DJ TO BACK SPIN AND NEEDLE DROP DJ GRAND WIZARD THEODORE

THE MOST RECORDS - AFRICA BAMBATTA

FIRST RECORDING BY A PUT TOGETHER RAP GROUP SUGAR HILL GANG "RAPPERS DELIGHT

FIRST REAL LEGIT RECORDING BY AUTHENTIC GROUP - GRAND MASTER FLASH AND THE FOURIOUS FIVE MC'S, UNDER THE TITLE "THE YOUNGER GENERATION" SONG TITLE "WE ROCK SO MELLOW" (this was actually the 2nd rap record release after king tim the third)

FIRST ALL FEMALE MC CREW MERCEDES LADIES

FIRST TV SHOW DEDICATED TO HIP HOP "GRAFFITI ROCK" FEATURING NYC BREAKERS AND A BATTLE BETWEEN TREACHEROUS 3 AND RUN DMC

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RAP AND MC MC: IS THE ORIGINAL WORD USED TO DESCRIBE A HIP HOPER HOSTING A JAM AND RHYMING ON THE MIC, IT MEANS" MASTER OF CEREMONY"
RAP: WAS A WORD ORIGINALLY MEANING TO TALK TO A GIRL OR TO SPEAK OUT TO SOMEONE OR TO PEOPLE, IT WAS EVENTUALLY USED ON THE RECORD "RAPPERS DELIGHT" BY SUGAR HILL GANG AND BECAME THE TITLE FOR HIP HOP RECORDING ARTISTS

FIRST HIP HOP RADIO SHOW MR MAGIC, WHBI FM, 1979

FIRST MC SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL KURTIS BLOW, MERCURY

FIRST HIP HOP TOUR IN UNITED STATES THE KITCHEN TOUR, THAT FEATURED RSC

FIRST TV PERFORMANCE BY A MC GROUP FUNKY FOUR ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

FAMOUS MC / DJ BATTLES
COLD CRUSH FOUR -VS - FANTASTIC FIVE (Harlem World)
BAMMBATTA -VS- DISCO KING MARIO(the Bronx jr. high school 123
KOOL MOE DEE -VS- BUZY B
COLD CRUSH FOUR -VS- FORCE MC'S (Statin Island)

1970 - The Last Poets, pioneers of hip-hop, record their self-named LP on Douglas Records, using a mixture of spoken word and jazz drumming and instrumentations.
While touring in Oakland, UTFO asks a young local MC named Too Short to open up for them.

In 1978, Kurtis Blow needed a DJ. Russell Simmons was Kurtis' manager at the time and his brother Joseph (aka as Run of Run DMC) got the job. He got his name "Run" because he could cut between two turntables so quickly

Kurtis Blow releases "The Breaks" on Mercury records (went on to sell more than a million copies).

1981-ABC's 20/20 shows the first national television coverage of the "Rap Phenomenon".

While touring in Oakland, UTFO asks a young local MC named Too Short to open up for them

The Fresh Fest concert tour, featuring Run-D.M.C., Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Fat Boys, and Newcleus, is hip-hop's first big money making tour ($3.5 million for 27 dates).

Houston, Texas native James Smith brings together "The Geto Boys". The original lineup consisted of MCs Raheim, Jukebox, DJ Ready Red, and Sir Rap-A-Lot. The group also featured Little Billy, a dancing dwarf who later joined full-time as Bushwick Bill. Following a short break-up in 1988, Smith called on local rhymers Willie D and multi-instrumentalist Akshun (later known as Scarface) to join the lineup.

N.W.A's follow-up record, 1991's "n1ggaz4Life," sold 954,000 copies in its first weeks of release to become the first hardcore rap album to hit No. 1 on the charts, despite being banned by some record stores and seized by English authorities as obscene.

The best selling rap /R&B album ever in the US is Crazys3xyCool by TLC which has reached sales of 11 million, surpassing MC Hammer's Please Don't Hurt 'Em which has sold 10 million units.

Dope^^

MochaWhitey said lol hell yeah I'm lovin this sh1t..I keep checkin back every few hours for more sh1t.big props..I'm curious though as to what really happened to Houston's eye. if he didn't try to ki1l himself then what really went down??

somebody that claimed they was houston's cousin told me this

said it had something to do with extortion,this is the only person i heard this from tho so i cant back it 100%

what i do kno is that why would you try to k1ll yourself.....& in the end only your eye ended up gettin fu#ked up, ever hear of that in ANY su1cide case?

its like on malcom x, how is malcom's daddy gonna commit su1cide by bashing the back of his head with a hammer & lying down on the tracks?

think about it




damn, i gotta give myself props on this, i just went thru it & this is a gr8 read,props to all that contribute


can this be sticked or put in the classics? im sure its more than deserving, 75% of my posts have been confirmed/testified

The Ice Cube/W chain thing was kind of close to truth. What happened was that he was working with KAM (he was signed to cube's street knowledge productions), and cube jerked him on royalties. After trying conventional methods to get his money, KAM resolved to "take it out of his ass". KAM's D.J., Solo, crossed paths with cube in the streets, and tried to have a gentlemen's talk about things. When cube tried to brush Solo off, Solo proceeded to beat the fu*k out of cube and snatched the 'W' chain off of his neck. There is a picture in Murder Dog magazine with Solo, Kam, and B Real from Cypress Hill holding the chain. After this happened, Minister Farrakhan summoned KAM, who's a muslim, and cube to Chicago to have peace talks. KAM speaks on this in the song "Whoop Whoop".

That's some funny sh1t with shyheim. I believe it. His new album(The Greatest Story Never Told) is still the sh1t.

The Def squad - Mobb Deep beef goes like this:
-Prodigy makes that interlude on the Imfamous album talking about "rappers bragging about how much weed you smoke and using outer space words that don't make sense"
-Redman and Keith Murray (Who rolled with a crew called LOD - legion of doom) Take it personal and run into mobb deep at a club, in NY, not sure which one.
-Keith and prodigy exchange blows, he talks about it on "In the long run"

(prodigy):
Swollen bullet wounds, head a$s n1ggas


Yo,
Who’s the one to be made into example
n1gga you pop sh1t wit the wrong guys this time
What! (gunshots)
My mobb’ll get on top ya, topple ya
Like a fall guy you fell down clown
Heard some four pound sound my ’86 style now (gunshot)
Ten years later still hold a firm ground
n1gga p thugly
Enter the ring wit something for anyone who wanna play gun
What up g?
I’ll clap you stop in your tracks, how about that?
Now analyze these cats wit live n1gga rap
You seen strapped, came outside all hype wit gats
Got juiced up, now bishop think he thuggin it black pimp
Let’s rap a taste
You get your little head pinched off
Brooklyn touched you, then left you for queens to finish off
fu#kin bi#ch, keith murray and his whole clique
Yea, you snuffed me in front of the cops, that bullsh1t
Told you come around the corner, no police and no witnesses
Little to your knowledge
You almost got shot but that’s aiight though
I’m a catch ya a$s again
You fu#kin immigrant, I'll get ya a$s ki1led for two cent
My mobb runnin sh1t you fu#kin carlton ave coward
The forecast call for gray skies and gun showers

My n1gga Money No runs with the mobb and was there the night it happened, he's also in the backround of the song bragging about knocking one of those LOD n1ggas out

Big had to change his name from "biggie smalls" because there's an artist who has that name already, some white cat who makes contemporary music or whatever. I remember this because back in the 90's I had like 2$ on me at the mall and was looking for one of those 99cent tape singles to waste money on. Saw some sh1t by an artist called "biggie smalls" and copped it thinking it was some new BIG sh1t, there was no picture on the cover. I got home and listened to it like wtf is this.

LMAO DAMNNNNNNNNNNN TEK I remember them days wit da u go to record store aint have no fukan money on u and u aint wanna be a sucka to go on da store n leave like dat so u wud go to da cheap section n say here lemme get dis

Didnt pac know a n1gga called biggie smalls aswell...That who you talkin about?

I cant see P fu#kin anyone up lol...Anyone know his size? he look like 5'5 130

- Saigon Said He Idolized Mobb Deep When He Was Younger, But When He Met Them And Their Crew They Turned Out To Be pu$$y. He Said They Were The Exact Opposite Of Their Music.

This is what I got from some people. DMX and Jay-Z did some battle inside a poolhall and it basically came out even. No one got it on tape, but they say it was classic. Anyone got anything else on this?

DMX and Jay-Z too bad those dudes arent like good friends. seeing them on a track together would be fu#king SICK.

LBoogie2122 said -Paul C was murdered by his wife and his brother. -Eric. B beat down Large Professor and ran Kool G. Rap out of New York to Arizona after 'G. Rap revealed Large Pro produced most of the beats Eric B was supposed to have done on the Eric B. & Rakim albums and "wanted dead or alive". -

A well respected hip hop beat digger said the same thing about Large Professor that he did in fact produce Eric and Ra's first albums.....If you listen to some of those records you can almost tell that Large Pro and Paul C. had a hand in them. Also several people have told me Large Pro did T.R.O.Y but allowed Pete to take credit for it.....

Anyone know if Pastor Troy really shot 9 ppl?

allabout$ said Something I always found interesting is about Snoop Dog's name. A "snoop" is a word crips call bloods but yet Snoop is a crip.

Yep also Dogg, Bloods call each other Dog's.. So it's odd. I've heard his early demo tapes and he says "A dogg not a locc." Someone told me that when he joined DR he was a blood, but they forced him to rep Crip cuz back in the day, Long Beach was all mostly a crip hood.

Krayzie Bone shot Wish bone wit a shotgun. His finger slipped, and they both denied that Krayzie shot him when Police arrived.

Dre2k said Krayzie Bone shot Wish bone wit a shotgun. His finger slipped, and they both denied that Krayzie shot him when Police arrived.

^ Yeah he talks about it in his song "That's The Way". they were getting ready to rob someone and he shot him with a 12-gauge in the leg accidently.

good info