January 04, 1980 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Mel “Drag-On” Smalls was born. Drag-On would grow up to: (1) become a member of Ruff Ryders, (2) release 3 albums, (3) start his own Hood Environment label, (4) act in films and (5) beef with The Game for name dropping him on 92 Bars.
Drag-On actually turned getting served by DMX in a battle into a deal with Ruff Ryders:
On This Date In Hip-Hop, The Breaks premiered on VH1.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, Michael “LiL Frogg Reshard Jr. was born.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, the Jungle Brothers released their 5th album VIP on Gee Street / BMG.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, Queen Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her talents in film.
January 04, 2006 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Old Dirty Bastard’s posthumous Osirus mixtape was released.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, MC Eiht released his 1st EP Keep It Hood on Blue Stamp Music Group.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, Cozz released his debut mixtape Nothin Personal on Dreamville / Tha Committee.
On This Date In Hip-Hop, 2pac, DJ Quik and Death Row took over Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Underrated af.
Down Bottom still that joint
1st album was 🔥 that burn when I pee skit had a mf heavy on the Trojans lmao
when ‘spit these bars’ came out people didn’t know how to react in the clubs down south. i had to make a remix with a different beat to keep it moving