Drop Some Hip Hop Facts Some May Not Know

[DaveyDave]

Interesting but why wouldn’t Tip take credit for arguably the greatest hip hop beat of all time

Tip and both members of Mobb Deep have been very forthcoming about who did what in the process of making Infamous. There are demos out there of some songs and you can tell where Q Tip came in and put his hand on drums, mixing, etc. Hav not remembering the sample doesn’t really surprise me, I think they were mostly using his parents records and stuff so maybe there was no cover or sticker on the record. Promo didnt/doesn’t remember the name of the Nas Is Like sample, he just remembers it had a fish on the record.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Whenever asked Havoc always says that he "can't remember" the details of making this beat
Just Blaze asked Havoc to recreate the beat on his Netflix special. Hav said he couldn't remember.
Just remade the beat from memory
The sample was a mystery for so long because Hav said he didn't remember the sample
Lastly, Tip was around for the making of the entire Infamous album
Tip was their guardian angel for that album. He supervised it because he wanted it to sound right.
He produced one track, "co-produced" two tracks, and mixed five tracks
Most of the samples on the Infamous album are jazz samples including Shook Ones, which was what Tip was known for
Around that time Tip was branching out into outside production for Apache, Crooklyn Dodgers, Rah Digga, and others
I could be wrong but I doubt it

Damn. U right

World is full of smoke and mirrors man

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Everyone knows this breh.
He’s been saying it in interviews since How To Rob dropped. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in an old XXL when they did a little blurb on him. I remember there was a pic of him with a BMX bike in front of some kind of fence or something.

Though I know 50 is popular but not everyone is around our age to even know that.


Gawdfather generates new fans everyday, b.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Before rap, Prodigy was offered a role in a Broadway play but he turned it down. Alfonso Ribeiro took the role and was offered the role of Carlton shortly after.

Not sure about shortly after, P was Golden Chyld before he was Poetical Prophets with Havoc, and they were 13 or 14 then.
Carlton would have been 10 year later.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Yeah they had mafia connects and if I'm not mistaken some gun running as well. I remember Capadonna also getting mixed up in some shyt with the Italians.

Cap was managed by the infamous rat Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano for a short period.

ODB, RZA, Ghost ran guns and drugs through Ohio amongst other things. 5 percenters around them (family, not family, organised, un organised) had their fingers in many extra curricular activities.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

Cap was managed by the infamous rat Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano for a short period.

ODB, RZA, Ghost ran guns and drugs through Ohio amongst other things. 5 percenters around them (family, not family, organised, un organised) had their fingers in many extra curricular activities.

lmfaooo bruh Cap wasnt managed by Gravano.....Cappadonnas best friend and manager was a guy named Mike Caruso, a low level Gambino associate. you really thought Sammy the Bull was Caps manager

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Everyone knows this breh.
He’s been saying it in interviews since How To Rob dropped. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in an old XXL when they did a little blurb on him. I remember there was a pic of him with a BMX bike in front of some kind of fence or something.

I remember that one. I think it was VIBE anniversary issue. I remember him saying "I'm not gonna hold my tongue, that's not my character" or something to that effect

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

lmfaooo bruh Cap wasnt managed by Gravano.....Cappadonnas best friend and manager was a guy named Mike Caruso, a low level Gambino associate. you really thought Sammy the Bull was Caps manager

Oh you got me there, I knew it was some affiliate. I remember reading some sensationalist article about the whole scenario. Wasn’t Gravano and Caruso and Gravano son taken down in some ecstasy bust too?

 

[FeverPitch2]

Scarface and Flavor Flav are both multi-instrumentalists
The original title of Licensed to Ill was Don't Be a fakkit
Play from Kid N' Play used to be a stick up kid
Onyx's image comes from a demo they made where they rhyming as super aggressive characters
Jam Master Jay loved the song and asked for 10 more just like it
Too Short comes from a well to do two parent household

 

[FeverPitch2]

Make Em Say Ugh was the result of KLC's 3 year old daughter messing with his equipment
The D.O.C.'s "accent" on It's Funky Enough was result of his being buzzed off forties in the studio
Dre thought it sounded Jamaican and had DOC play it up
No Limit Records was originally based in Richmond, CA
Goodie Mob was originally just Cee-Lo and Bigg Gipp
House Party was supposed to be the film debut of Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Full Force wrote their own dialogue in House Party
LL did not appear in the videos for Rampage and H.E.A.L. Yourself. Body doubles were used.
At the time, his father was his manager. LL's dad thought that he should focus on a pop career rather than being around other rappers
LL wrote Lyte's verse on Self Destruction
LL wrote Can You Rock It Like That for Run-DMC
Run-DMC wrote Paul Revere and Slow and Low
Chuck D is a graphic designer. He designed the Public Enemy logo
The silhouette in the cross hairs is LL's sidekick, E-Love

 

[FeverPitch2]

Jermaine Dupri's real name is Jermaine Mauldin
His father is Michael Mauldin, a music executive at CBS/Sony
Ed Lover was signed to Def Jam as part of the group No Face
They released an album called Wake Your Daughter Up in 1991
Because of his contractual obligations to MTV, he was removed from all of the album artwork and credits
He appeared in their videos wearing a mask.
Before leaving school for good, Lil Wayne was a straight A student

 

[FeverPitch2]

The story Chuck D tells in Night of the Living Baseheads about a former rapper who gets strung out on freebase and strips a jeep while someone is sleeping in it is true.
The rapper in the story was Spoonie Gee
The name Spoonie Gee refers to a coke spoon
Flavor Flav said he wanted to smoke crack on camera for the video but they wouldn't let him

 

[semicko82]

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis signed rapper Tech N9nine to their label back in the early 90s. The deal eventually went south and the rest is history.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Biggie died with 3 unrecorded verses in his head.

 

[Jerz-2]

Yo, I am SUPER DUPER DUPER LATE on both of these, but:

1. That vocal sample of someone saying "Tennessee" at the beginning of the Arrested Development song of the same name is Prince, sampled from his song "Mulberry Street".

2. The hook to Snoop's "Gin & Juice" is an interpolation of the hook on "Watching You" by Slave:

"Walkin down the street, watchin ladies
go by watchin you..."

=

"Rollin down the street, smokin indo
sippin on gin and juice"