Grimiest moments in hip hop history

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Combat jack
Tragedy Khadafi Likes His Cris Warm

Tragedy Khadafi is a good dude (no homo). He doesn't, however, get the recognition he deserves. He was a junior member of the legendary Juice Crew, he mentored and actually named Havoc (of "Mobb Deep" fame), he discovered CNN (Capone -N- Noriega) and was fully responsible for their classic underground LP The War Report. He was also featured on the only diss record fired back against 2pac and the Dogg Pound during the East-West coast beef ("LA, LA," also featuring Mobb Deep and C-N-N).

So the year is 1999 and Trag is feeling a bit down (cause life has a way of kicking a nigga's ass every now and then). To cheer him up, I suggest that we head to a party that Gorilla Pimp Sean Combs is throwing cross-town. We get to the joint and are ushered into the V.I.P. section which looked great (the walls were draped with some velvety red curtains and the chicks were definitely on some video ho material). Around midnight, Diddy steps in the club and decides to open up the bar in our section. Trag and I go apeshit and start throwing drinks back like we had been stranded in the Sahara desert for 15 days with no canteen in sight.

After an hour of doing some serious man-style drinking, Puff ups the ante (along with some other baller crews chilling in the cut) and decides its time to treat the crowd to bottles of Cristal. The wait staff starts bringing out mad ice buckets stocked with yellow bottles and it's on. Almost everyone in the area has access to at least 2.5 of their own bottles of the fine bubbly. Everything is going real perfecto, chicks looking and smelling good, dancing, trees is burning, niggas is all types of happy with no types of gun talk in the air, the dj (I think it was Flex) is spinning hit after hit after blood clot hit, we're partying like it's, well, um, 1999 and Trag is smiling (no homo).

Anyways, after downing our respective second bottles of Cris, Trag pulls me to the side with a real serious and concerned look in his eye and asks me where the men's room is. In my blissfully drunken state, I explain that it's past the V.I.P. ropes, through the dance floor (jam packed with about 700 sweaty dancing patrons), up the crowded narrow ass stairs, right behind the capacity filled lounge, where finally, there's probably a line with a wait time of about 10-15 minutes. He processes the information and says "cool." A few minutes later, there's like one unattended bottle of Cris left, and from the corner of my eye, I spot Trag grabbing it along with the effin ice bucket, greedy ass motherfucker!
 
I think nothing of it, but I soon start craving for some more of the free elixir so I make my way to said last bottle that Trag placed back in its bucket. I reach for the bottle and out of nowhere, Trag grabs my wrist (no homo) and says, "Dude, chill, you had enough." I'm getting pissed now cause it aint right to cock block a free bottle of Cris. "Yo, why you hoggin the bottle dude?" I ask, and he pulls me to the side and explains, "I just took the ice bucket behind one'a these drapes and pissed like a gallon's worth in it!"

Minutes later, as some fine ass Latin mommies make their way to the bottle and start going to town on its contents, cute ass brown hands all up in the ice bucket and guzzling like it ain't nobody's business, I wonder if they even realize that their bubbly was a tad bit warm.

[Cavvy]

Combat Jack
Back around 1993, Pete Rock was God in the greater New York City area. He was in one of the hottest rap groups (Pete Rock & CL Smooth (although I never understood whut the eff CL was saying)), he was producing hits for everyone (RUN DMC, Nas, etc.).

Around that time, a lot of of music industry players came from the Northern town of Mount Vernon (Puffy, Heavy D and the Boyz, Pete and CL). Anyways, Pete at the time, being the good dude that he is, was trying to put a local rap group called the the YG'z (short for "Young Gunz") on. He provided these dudes with a lil cash, supplied them with ample beats and even got them a record deal with either Uptown or MCA. The problem was that these cats were really turrible. In addition, these dudes were all like ex-cons or professional crooks or some shit like that and they had no reason being in the music industry. Their single comes out and it effin stinks like cabbage and chitlins stew, they get dropped and start leaning on Pete. I guess they figure Pete's gonna continue funding them, "riding" with them or whatever the fuck real thugs think they man's an 'em is supposed to do. Pete, however, realizes that these cats were a bad investment of time and energy and summarily cuts them off.

That summer, I attended a "Mt. Vernon Family Day" picnic. It was one of those picturesque days (like in a music video) and everyone was there enjoying Heavy D's special barbeque chicken and ribs. Pete, with chicken in hand, is rapping to this dime piece on her huge picnic blanket when the YG'z. show up. One of 'em requests Pete's attention and when Pete gets up to talk, the YG knocks Pete Rock in the jaw with an uppercut, catapulting dude clean over the huge ass picnic blanket. The chick is screaming, cats are scrambling to get out of there, Pete is convulsing on the ground with barbeque sauce all over his bright yellow Cross Colours jersey (cause he's knocked the fuck out) and the YG'z are rifling through his pockets Debo style. Heav and the rest of the "Mt. Vernon" crew don't say shit (I guesss because the YG'z were really that gully). Pete then gets up, recovers immediately and sprints, OJ-style, across the picnic grounds with the YG'z on his tail (no homo).
 
From what I understand, this shit went on for a while. A few months later (winter), I was on my way to attend some music industry black tie event. When I get to the venue, I see Pete running the fuck my way in a tuxedo. I move out of dude's way and a few seconds later, I see the YG'z (not in tuxedo) running after him. Where I'm going with this is that during the entire time that dudes are hazing Pete (let's say a period of like 9 months), Pete never contacts the authorities. He took his multiple beatdowns and terrorizings like a man. He may be a lot of things, but the Soul Brother #1 aint a snitch

[Hack Wilson - real]

smh @ these YG guys lol

attacking a legend :disgusted:

[TraceOneInfinite]

Cassidy destroys Freeway in a battle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jm6KEmSJRZw

DAMN!! Cassidy can't be fucked with

[Cavvy]

Shyheim the dust juice
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c0iNfCRMjPc

[dubsmith_nz]

Casual holds his own against a gang of dudes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wPeqljlyHzM

Haha gully, Hiero get it in

[Black Excellence]

eazy e & crew confront suge & death row wit guns pulled after an awards show in 93.

[Black Excellence]

suge knight's business tactics in the 90's.

[BIGWORM]

Cypress Hill were banned from appearing on SNL again after their performance as the musical guest on the October 2, 1993 episode, where DJ Muggs lit up a marijuana joint on-air and the band trashed their instruments after playing their second single "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That."

[Cavvy]

Then all of a sudden, "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" comes on, and PM Dawn starts doin' his thing, and then you see Kris comin' up - there was like a ramp comin' up the stage - and you see people comin' up the stage, so I start cuing up. Now let me say this - Kris actually never hit PM Dawn. I think that's like a big misconception. The guy who actually did - I'm not gonna repeat his name - but there was one guy in our crew, his attitude was like "I'm wylin' out!". Right when we came in the club, he said to Kris "Whatever happens Kris, make sure you bail me out", and we all started laughin'. So they rushed the stage, and PM Dawn's music...he had a DJ up there, but the music wasn't on his turntables - it was on a DAT - coming from somewhere else, maybe the side of the stage. So Kool Kim said he heard a "Rrrrrippp!" and the music go off - that's not what happened, he wasn't even on turntables! So that's not true either. So this guy with us takes the record off the turntable and smashes it, but the music is still playin'. I guess whoever saw what was goin' on stopped the DAT. PM Dawn had some girl dancers up there - this guy pushes one of the dancers into the crowd - hard! And I remember she tried to sue Kris a few months after that. While this guy's doin' this, Kris comes up. PM Dawn is not knowin' what's goin' on - imagine, he's in show mode and his music stops - and Kris grabs the microphone, so they both have it. Like a tug-of-war for a second, and then Kris pushes him and takes the microphone in his hand. Right at the same time, the guy who pushed the girl into the crowd punches PM Dawn in his face - POW! Then he punches him again - POW! In the face, twice. Then, if I recall, Just-Ice pushed him off [the stage] and Prince Be fell into the crowd. I don't remember dudes jumping him and beating him up. The crowd in the front backed-up when he fell - you couldn't really see what was goin' on, it looked like a robbery. Then Kris has the mic and he goes "BDP is in the motherfuckin' house!" and then everybody was like "Hooo!", the whole crowd was like that, and right at that moment I threw on "Still #1″ [does the horn part]. It was over! People was jumping up and down and they was goin' crazy and screamin'...it was like a riot!
 
Clark Kent turned to me and he said "Yo, that's the greatest thing I ever seen in my life!" Where I'm at is across the room, upstairs on the second level, looking down. That's how the DJ booth was set-up. When Clark Kent said that, I remember bending down to get "The Bridge Is Over" out of my bag, and when I came to cue it up, Clark Kent had already left the DJ booth, went downstairs and ran across the crowd to climb up on stage! I think Queen Latifah was on top of a speaker, just whylin' out. Everybody was goin' crazy. So I threw on "The Bridge Is Over", and then Kris was - Kris was supposed to rhyme, too! If I threw on the song, he was supposed to do the rhyme! But it was just so wild that he never even rhymed! He was just goin' "Jump! Jump!" and everybody was just goin' crazy. All I remember him doin' was "The Dawn is over, the Dawn is over!", like that. I think the third record I threw on was "Duck Down". That hadn't even had a video or nuttin', I think that was really new when I threw it on. Kris was just talkin' shit. He was goin' "What?! What?! Anybody that try to diss BDP! What?!" He wasn't even rhymin'! I remember seeing T-Money, it was his party, and he was up up stage, jumping around. The stage was packed now! The wack part was that later on, when all the flack came, T-Money was like "Ahh, man, that was bullshit. Kris messed-up my party!" I knew that he worked for MTV at the time, but I thought that was bullshit that he said that, 'cause I saw him goin' crazy on stage.
 
So out of the corner of my eye, I saw security come rushing in, onto the left side, but then when they saw it was Kris and they saw it was like a party-like atmosphere, they just stopped - they was just looking. I guess they thought something happened, but when they ran in it was like a show, almost. Now Kool Kim said that PM Dawn was rocking the party? Let me set the scene for you real quick - this is a party with LONS, Nice & Smooth and Supercat - now a party that those people would be rocking...PM Dawn wouldn't rock in that setting. His record might've been number one in the country at that moment, but in that setting I don't think he was rocking. What happened was, there was a lot of record company people there from Island. When he came out, they was clapping. His people were clapping, but it wasn't like the whole crowd was lovin' him 'cause it wasn't that type of crowd. Actually, Clark Kent was playing some new Das-EFX stuff on a reel-to-reel. When I went up to the booth I asked him what he was playin', and he said, "This is my group, Das-EFX". It wasn't "They Want EFX", it was somethin' else, actually I think it was somethin' that wasn't on the album. So in a place where you're playin' Das-EFX reel-to-reels and Leaders of the New School is performing, I just don't see PM Dawn ripping like Kool Kim said. I saw a handful of people that looked like record company reps there that was rockin', but there was like a thousand people there! It wasn't all those people rocking to PM Dawn. I'm gonna say "No" to that.
 
After all this happens, Kris rushes out. Kris is gone. He told his wife "When I go up on stage, bring the car 'round, so as soon as I leave out the building I can jump in the car". But somehow she didn't leave off the stage until after he was already rocking, so she was late bringing the car 'round. So when I came outside it was just me and another guy. She was all upset, goin' "Where's Kris?" and I'm goin' "I don't know, he was supposed to be with you!" So she was like "You gotta go back in there and look for him". The crowd was so wild that they started fighting amongst themselves - that part that Kool Kim said was true - they was so wild, it looked like you could throw raw meat out there. They were so savage...like somehow they just turned on each other and started fighting! When she said "Go back in" I was like "Go back in? Oh my god!" So I go back in the party, it's a mess. There's no more music, it was like a riot to me. I saw the Awesome Two - Teddy Ted and Special K - and they looked at me and they was like "Yo, are you alright?" and I'm like "Yeah, I'm fine! I'm cool!"
 
After that, I didn't see Kris, I left and we went back to a meeting spot where we were always gonna meet-up, on Christopher Street somewhere, in the Village where he used to live. When I got there, he was outside talkin' to Just-Ice and they was all laughing. So we got in the car and we went to his house in Jersey. It was just me and him after this whole thing, and we was up half the night, just talkin' about it. It was like ‘Can you believe how wild it got?" It wasn't even supposed to be that, but it just became that. I think it was just a classic case of "entourage gone wild". [laughs] Ultimately, Kris is responsible because it is his people, and he is the absolute leader. Everybody follows what he says and does, in our crew at that time. But they just blacked-out. When they just got up there and started, they was just outta control. They just took it upon themselves. I'm not tryin' to defend Kris, but he actually didn't hit him! Kool Kim said he took the microphone and was hittin' him on the head and you could hear it through the speakers - that's bullshit. That absolutely did not happen. He just had the mic in his hand. the people that was really involved was KRS, Just-Ice, maybe ICU and this other guy. Those four guys were absolutely involved, and everybody else was just up there.