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Here is a thread of some of the most wildest facts & rumors in the hip hop industry for your timeline. Some of these are confirmed facts while others are just pure speculation. Feel free to share your opinions in the replies

2002, Kanye took over Ludacris’ studio session in LA in efforts to display his rhyme skills. Luda was not only unimpressed but opted to rhyme over a Red Spyda beat instead of one of West's tracks. Later that night, upset, Kanye took a drive & got into his infamous car accident

According to Biggie’s mom, Violetta Wallace, Biggie seen Tupac at a concert soon after he was released from prison and asked "What's wrong with you? Why you saying these things about me? I thought we were cool". Pac responded, "Just play along, it's just to sell some records"

Nas was suppose to be on “Can I Live” by Jay-Z but Nas didnt show up at the last minute & Reasonable Doubt was deadlined for the Next day so Jay-Z had to hurry up & write the 2nd Verse in 20 minutes and record it by himself. Alot of people say this was the start of their beef

In 98’ Big Pun cracked Jay-Z on the head with a bottle in a club. He was on stage a little tipsy with the mic & Pun & Joe came up to rock & Jay didnt want to get off, said some slick shit to both Joe & Pun and Pun cracked him with a bottle of bacardi. PUN speaks on it in "100%"

J. Cole & Diddy Scrapped at a VMA After-Party Over Kendrick's "Control" Verse

Diddy was visibly intoxicated & tried to confront Kendrick over the “King of New York” claim in his “Control” freestyle. Diddy allegedly attempted to pour a drink on Kendrick, and J. Cole intervened.

Wyclef exposed that Lauryn Hill allegedly lied to him to believe that she was pregnant with his baby. He explained, "In that moment something died between us. I was married & Lauryn & I were having an affair but she led me to believe the baby was mine & I couldn’t forgive that”

Mobb Deep met when Havoc was gonna rob Prodigy but decided not to.

Ol Dirty Bastard and LL Cool J were supposed to work together but then when they were in the studio, ODB pissed on one of L's platinum plaques when he was drunk and LL threw him out

The real reason Mase left hip hop & Harlem is because of heavy extortion, not an epiphany from God

Pharrell Willams supposedly lost his virginity at 16 to a 29 year old women who was a co-worker at McDonald's.

Kelis also aborted two kids from Pharrell

Lil Kim & 50 Cent supposedly smashed back in the day and when Kim left 50 for scott storch, he dissed her

The contract Suge and Pac signed which got him on Death Row was reportedly signed on a piece of toilet paper.

Wyclef Jean supposedly smashed Beyonce & her father had a relationship with the two girls that got kicked out the original group.

Supposedly Marques Houston took Beyoncé’s virginity

Nas's baby mother Carmen Bryan, who also dated Jay Z, once stated that Hov was obsessed with Nas. She said Jay had a huge vinyl collection of rare Nas records in his Manhattan apartment

Common in the early 90s was a huge herion addictic and almost OD’d in a studio

Apparently Diddy was a big control freak at Bad Boy and Biggie was what kept everyone together so after he died, everything just fell apart

Pete Rock was smashing Nas' baby momma and Nas got wind of this and that’s why they dont work together anymore

Master P tied up and pistol whipped Pimp C after UGK were running around and telling everyone how P didn't pay them for their guest appearances

BIG was supposed to hop on a flight to London on Friday, March 7, 1997, to continue promoting LAD but canceled his flight & chose to remain in LA that weekend. He enjoyed the sunshine too much, & didn't want to leave it behind to go to an overcast London

Supposedly Lauryn Hill became a recluse at some point and became apart of a strange cult with beliefs in Religious mysticism. Repordetly the cult has been draining her money and time. She supposedly got out of it some time later

The following rappers who have reportedly been robbed more than once
   
Busta Rhymes
Nas
Dr. Dre
Mase(most famous for gettin his chain snatched at a knicks game)
Diddy
Jermaine Dupri
Cam’Ron

Q Tip got beat up so bad by one of the members of Wrexx N Effect that he lost partial sight in one of his eyes hence why in the video for “hot sex” he wore a mask

After recording Ready To Die, Big learned to keep his lines in his head without writing them. This was a technique he taught Jay while Jay was making Reasonable Doubt. Then Jay eventually taught Ja Rule. None of them actually write lyrics

Suge says on the way to the hospital after being shot, Pac held a conversation & joked the whole time.. which is impossible for someone shot in the lungs. Suge was reportedly "grazed" by a bullet in the same shooting & sought treatment at the same hospital but there’s NO records

Ice Cube isnt from Compton and went to a college in Arizona. He was never a gangsta

Three 6 Mafia used to be called Triple Six Mafia and made songs about worshipping the devil, but were forced to change their name when they signed to Reletivity

ODB got gonorreha twice from the same woman

AZ supposedly smashed Lil’ Kim & Foxy Brown

The Game claims he caught his first body on March 4 1994

Supposedly Rick Ross had gastric bypass surgery in ‘02. He actually used to be much fatter

DJ Premier stopped working with Jeru The Damaja because Jeru got pissed when Premier was smashing his sister

Kim had her ass whopped by Faith over B.I.G

Nas was close to signing to Bad Boy in 1993 but was having problems with member Craig Mack

The original beat for "Ether" was produced by Swizz Beatz and had different lyrics by Nas, including this one, "It should've been you on the plane crash", but it was either not released or destroyed.

One night 1991 while drunk, a suicidal Bushwick Bill went to his girl’s house & asked her to shoot him but she wouldn't. Bill & his girl got into a scuffle & his gun went off & ended up shooting his eye out. Someone took a pic of him at the hospital & Geto Boys made it the cover

Will Smith hid in a closet when Suge Knight and his blood friends stormed a studio in Cali

Vanilla Ice was beat up by Suge Knight and hung out his balcony and forced to drink piss. All because Suge wanted the royalties to Ice Ice Baby.

Rumor has it that Mariah Carey was a token industry whore. Rumors of everybody from 50 Cent to Eminem to Puffy and Mase have all hit it

Q-Tip and Janet Jackson have had a love interest for a long time, but remain friends. Rumor had it that was why Tip got the part of Markell - Janet Jackson's slain boyfriend in the movie Poetic Justice

Fat Joe gave Guru a place to live for awhile when Guru moved from Boston to NYC

Pac had some of his enemies killed. One person he put a hit out on was a rapper name Stretch. 2Pac fell out with Stretch after the robbing & shooting at the recording studio cause he became close to Bad Boy & going to BIG’s concerts. Stretch was murdered execution style in Queens

Ghostface always wore a mask in the early days of Wu Tang because he was wanted for robbery when the Wu first blew up

Suge Knight supposedly paid someone $5K to assault Dr. Dre at the Vibe awards specifically during his lifetime acheivement award segment

Supposedly Sean Paul is not allowed within 100 feet of Beyoncé or Hov 'cause during the shooting for Baby Boy, Sean Paul tried to scoop Beyoncé

RZA was charged with attempted murder and represented himself without a lawyer back in 91

Big Pun kidnapped DJ Whoo Kid for putting a diss record aimed at him on one of his early mixtapes

Nas was offered and declined an audition for the lead role in the movie Save The Last Dance

Apparently most of Wu Tang used to be angel dust heads. Ghostface admits this in an interview “I was a dusthead, I used to drink a lot back then (making of Only build 4 Cuban Linx) which is why I sound so aggressive on a lot of shit”

Apparently, in 1997, DMX was trying to sign with Bad Boy Records. Puffy ended up choosing The Lox over DMX because he thought they were more marketable and couldn't quite figure out how to synchronize his signature dance moves with DMX's gravelly delivery

Gold Digger from Late Registration wasn't meant to be a Kanye West song. It was originally created for Shawnna's 2004 debut album Worth Tha Weight.

A group featuring Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule was supposed to come out but DMX and Ja had a fall out

Some songs on Jay-Z's The Blueprint were made with other artists in mind: Heart of the City was meant for DMX. Just Blaze also claims that Girls, Girls, Girls was meant for Ghostface Killah.

The making of Late Registration cost upwards to $2 million to make. Although those numbers are not confirmed, Kanye West did tell MTV exactly how much it cost him from his own pocket saying, "I put my money into the album. I'm $600 000 in the hole right now on that album".

Eminem was supposed to be signed to Duck Down Records before signing to Afteramath Entertainment. Drew “Dru Ha” Friedman decided not to sign him. Rumor has it that he didn't want to chance signing a white artist

Okay I’m going to end this thread with a simple quick fact. That is not BIG as a baby on the Ready to Die cover