Hip Hop Facts

Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for 'Ladies Love Cool James'.

According to the Outlawz, after Tupac was cremated, his ashes were mixed with marijuana and smoked by the members of the rapper's former group.

50 Cent was offered a flat $5 million to be the face of Vitamin Water. He turned down the cash and negotiated for a minority equity stake in the company instead. When Coca-Cola bought Glacéau (Vitamin Water's parent company) for $4.1 billion in 2007, 50 Cent walked away with an estimated $100 million.

Dr. Dre was about to become hip-hop's first billionaire when Apple bought his company Beats for $3 billion in 2014. Then he posted a video bragging about it, and Tim Cook used the leak to shave $200 million off - landing Dre just under a billion.

Eminem won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2003 for "Lose Yourself" - the first rap song ever to win that award. He wasn't there. He was asleep in Detroit because his daughter Hailie had school early the next morning. He slept through history.