January 16: Notorious Released In Theaters. (2009)

January 16, 2004 – After Freaky Tah’s death, Mr. Cheeks went solo and the Lost Boyz never put out another album until 2019. On This Date In Hip-Hop, the crew’s DJ, Ronald “Spigg Nice” Blackwell, was sentenced to 37 years in the Feds after he resorted to committing bank robberies.

January 16, 1980 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Keiwan “Goldie Loc” Spillman was born.

January 16, 2007 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, the office of mixtape king DJ Drama and Don Cannon’s Aphilliate Music Group was raided by heavily armed police in an attempt to disrupt what authorities perceived as a bootlegging operation.