Hip Hop Stories & Fables That Many Have Never Heard

shoeking2101 said:
Ehhh, while I do believe the story, I truly believe that the label truthfully had no faith in them and saw them as a flash in the pan, kids with a hot single that they could make money off of for that period of time and saw no long term plan with those guys :lol:
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That possible too especially when you consider how forgettable a lot of the hits from that era were. But even after you get signed to a major you still have to prove yourself...getting a hit and shooting to the top is relatively easy, staying on top is what most artists can't do.
 
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shoeking2101 said:
Ehhh, while I do believe the story, I truly believe that the label truthfully had no faith in them and saw them as a flash in the pan, kids with a hot single that they could make money off of for that period of time and saw no long term plan with those guys
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That possible too especially when you consider how forgettable a lot of the hits from that era were. But even after you get signed to a major you still have to prove yourself...getting a hit and shooting to the top is relatively easy, staying on top is what most artists can't do.
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One-hit wonders, basically.
 
social media has ****** up the game. everybody broadcast what they do nothing even has the chance to become a untold story.

Nike Jordan said:
One-hit wonders, basically.
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Stanky leg, new boys, the pack, dorrough (sp?), swag surfin, we had a lot in the 2000s but man the clubs were on fire back then :pimp:
 
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Nike Jordan said:
One-hit wonders, basically.
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Stanky leg, new boys, the pack, dorrough (sp?), swag surfin, we had a lot in the 2000s but man the clubs were on fire back then
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The 90s had a bunch of one-hit wonders. Skee-Lo, Positive K, Camp-Lo, Tag Team, Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, Queen Pen and a bunch more that I don't feel like naming right now.
 
Method man on ODB and recording the "Raw Hide" track:

Method Man:
“In the early days, when we weren’t really popping off like that, I was always in the studio with RZA. So I used to be with RZA all the time after the album. I wasn’t trying to go on the block, that was a trap. So I used to take my little change and take the ferry.

“I caught the ‘Raw Hide’ joint and there was a couple other joints we did [that night]. There was a bunch of joints we did but I just wanted to spit on any joint that I liked. So it didn’t matter. If I was at the studio, I spit on it. If it worked, we kept it. That was usually everything I spit on.


“Dirty’s album came out after mine. But Dirty had gotten his deal before me, he just spent all his ******* money up. He spent all his money and bought this little piece-of-****-*** ******* car. [Laughs.] **** was horrible.

“Dirty was making his **** for damn near two years. His **** was taking long as ****. If you listen to the album, there was so much time in between songs, that the ***** repeated the same verse three times on the same album. Three times! [Laughs.]

“That’s proof right there that this ***** was working at a snail’s pace. There was so much time in between records that this ************ must have forgot, because RZA doesn’t let you hear ****. Once you leave the studio, you don’t hear it anymore.


“The majority of the verses on that album are old RZA rhymes and GZA rhymes. ‘Approach the school, 9:30, you’re late,’ that’s RZA’s ****, I heard that **** when I was 14 years old. That whole, ‘Easy on my balls, they’re fragile as eggs,’ ****** said that in a rap battle in ******* 1989.

“Dirty took all their **** and made it his own and GZA ain’t say ****. Most of [Dirty’s verses] was GZA’s ****. I remember GZA and ODB got in an argument one night and GZA was like, ‘***** most of that **** on your ******* album is mines anyway!’

“ODB wrote ‘Brooklyn Zoo’ though. I could go through the discography I could tell you which ones he wrote. Like ‘Dog ****’ on Wu-Tang Forever? The *******, ‘Calling me a dog/But leave a dog alone/Because nothing can stop me from burying my bones,’ I wrote that when I was 15 years old.

“The beginning of Ghostface’s verse on ‘Cherchez La Ghost,’ that’s my song ‘I Get Down For My Crown.’ I wrote that when I was 16. The first four bars, ‘Brothers try to pass me, but none could match me/No girl can freak me, I’m just too nasty,’ that’s ‘I Get Down For My Crown.’ Youtube it and you’ll find it because J-Love put all that **** up there."


Method Man on Foxy Brown and recording the Ill Na Na track

Method Man: “When they approached me with it and ****, I hadn’t met Foxy yet. I remember [Foxy’s brother] Gavin was playing that ‘I Shot Ya’ verse and I was like, ‘Wow. She sounds just like Rae.’ I was like, ‘Her voice is raw as ****.’


“When she got signed to Def Jam, love is love, they wanted me to come in and do a verse for her. I was like, ‘Okay, give me 25.’ That’s how much I got for the Biggie verse, $2,500. I didn’t know how to price my **** back then. I came in and did the hook. I said that ‘Dollar Dollar’ **** because I knew everyone would remember that **** from ‘C.R.E.A.M.’

“I got the check and I was like, ‘Oh ****. 25 Gs?’ I went and got a Rolex. For a while I was running around telling ******, ‘Yeah, Foxy bought me this Rolex.’ I had to stop that ****. People actually thought she went and bought me a ******* Rolex and ****. But it wasn’t a mistake. I look back in hindsight and I earned every penny of that ****. [Laughs] I was selling myself short.”
 
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FlyNY said:
Coolie high and Luchini are both timeless classics. Makes you wanna drive around in an Acura Legend with the spring air going all in your nostrils
 
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word...I saw coolie high for the first time back in December and it made me appreciate luchini alot more...for like 2 weeks straight I played that song atleas 3-4x a day
 
FlyNY said:
Coolie high and Luchini are both timeless classics. Makes you wanna drive around in an Acura Legend with the spring air going all in your nostrils
Jay Z the biter. Thats why big pun was about to fill this ***** up with mad hot lead
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bruh i had no idea pun was that much of a goon
 
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Acoording To Stevie J, Devante(Jodeci) Use to smack up Missy x Timbo x Ginuwine In The Studio...
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That must be why Timbo hit the gym hard
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 I'd be demoralized if I got slapped up by an R&B cat.
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 them dudes had issues though.

That Method Man story....
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. I didn't know that. He was my first favorite member of the Wu. He wrote them ***** at ages 14-16. Impressive.
 
okay i got some,

Naughty by nature almost got killed in chicago during a live performance.

drake got robbed in LA right before so far gone came out for like a watch.

Juelz Santana has been on def jam forever cam sold his contract for so much they cant drop him,


i got many so i will be cool
 
bluedeniro said:
drake got robbed in LA right before so far gone came out for like a watch.
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I think he talked about this on one of his "freestyles" on that tape

The two freestyles were over the Say You Will (Kanye) beat and a beat that was sampled from Coldplay

One was called Say What's Real, I forgot the other title 
 
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