Unlike the last two, there’s no theme for this month’s Fun Facts, just good ol’ random shenanigans. With school picking up steam once again, nowadays the creative juices are flowing more like Jim Jones than Rakim.

1. Inspectah Deck had a cold when he recorded his verse for “Stick Me For My Riches” off 8 Diagrams — one of his beefs with the final product was that he wasn’t able to re-record his verse before the album’s release. (This fun fact is dedicated to everyone that made it through the first minute of singing on that song.)

2. Former Wu-Tang affiliate and current Aphilliates Music Group president La The Darkman made several guest appearances on good friend Vanilla Ice’s ‘01 album Bi-Polar.

3. The Neptunes’ beat for The Clipse’s “Wamp Wamp” — complete with Slim Thug’s hook — was originally sold to Foxy Brown prior to her hearing problems.

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Video for Joe’s first single off his Halfway House Digital only album coming this month.

We posted the track & instrumental in August, the video rolled out a few days ago. Nice & Simple.

Wanted to give you guys a little heads up on a venture I’m involved with, OG Hip Hop. The best way to describe OGHH is Hip Hop meets Drudge Report. The site will aggregate all of the top hip hop & related content on the internets so you don’t have to read 398329 blogs to keep up, instead you have it in one neat portal.  It will also offer somen original content, for example we just put together Hip Hop’s Top 10 Videos.

Tts a project lead by Steve Kim, myself and other noteworthy bloggers like Kevin Nottingham.
Check it out and add OGHH to your bookmarks/rss.

With Aaron on a very brief hiatus, I though I’d throw up a ML Diggin joint (the grandfather feature of Remix Tuesdays).

This track came up on random shuffle today, and I love random ass guest spots like this. Back in 2000 Nas got on a Trackmasters remix of the R&B trio 3LW’s debut single No More (Baby I’ma Do Right). In his 2 (!!) verses Nas mentions not messing with Jailbait until the subject gets older and  holding down 3LW.  Does anyone know the background story of why Nas got involved with this track? Thank god they didn’t get Kells to do the hook on this. For those of you not in the know, 3LW has since lost a member, and morphed into a Disney Channel staple, The Cheetah Girls.

3LW Ft. Nas - I Can’t Take It (No More Remix)

You may remember my little rant about Spine Magazine a little bit back, well Zaid hit me up personally last week or so to let me know that they got rid of the flash setup, so props to the spine crew for going back to the drawing board so quick, the non-flash design is a huge improvement.

On the other hand XXL.com recently relaunched last week but to me it just seems to me like its just a rehash of what SOHH.com was before it got whacked into becoming a typepad blog, similar slideshow element, tabs, boxes with content.. evolutionary? maybe. revolutionary? No.

Damn, still hating.

(Image via Cosmo)

If you missed Cosmo Baker & Redman on the road  together a little back, Cosmo Baker put together a dope Redman mix highlighting his favorite Redman joints, The Funk Doc Chronicles, to help get you over your sorrows. Highly Recommended.

Tracklisting:

Redman “Diggy Doc”
Redman “Bobyahed2dis” (Matthew Africa Re-Edit)
Redman “Whateva Man”
Redman “Rockafella” (Remix)
Redman “Tonight’s Da Night”
Redman “Funkorama (Double Green Mix)”
D’Angelo “Left & Right feat. Method Man & Redman”
Redman & Method Man “How High”
De La Soul “Oooh feat. Redman”
Redman “How To Roll A Blunt”
Redman “I Don’t Kare”
Redman “Rite Now”
LL Cool J “4,3,2,1″ feat. Redman, Method Man, Canibus & DMX
Redman “Brick City Mashin’”
Pharoahe Monch “Simon Says”( Remix feat. Lady Luck, Redman, Method Man, Shabaam Sahdeeq & Busta Rhymes)
Redman “Can’t Wait”
OG Station Identification Break (Bob James / Mary Jane Girls)
Redman “Tonight’s Da Night” (Remix)
Redman “Pick It Up”
Redman “Pick It Up” (Remix)
OG Station Identification Break 2 (Le Pamplemousse / Parliament)
Redman “Blow Your Mind”
EPMD “Head Banger” feat. K-Solo & Redman
Redman “Pick It Up”
Redman & Method Man “How High Part 2″
Me’Shell NdegéOcello “Pocketbook” (Remix feat. Redman)
Erick Sermon “React” feat. Redman
Redman “Rated “R”"
Beanie Sigel “One Shot Deal” feat. Redman
Redman “Put It Down”
Redman & Method Man “Da Rockwilder”
Redman “Let’s Get Dirty (I Can’t Get In Da Club)” feat. DJ Kool
Redman “Let’s Get Dirty (I Can’t Get In Da Club)” feat. DJ Kool (Filthy Remix)
KRS-One “Heartbeat” feat. Redman & Angie Martinez
Redman “Time 4 Sum Aksion”
Redman & Method Man “Cereal Killer”
OG Station Identification Break 3 (George & Gwen McCrae)
Snoop Dogg “From Long Beach To Brick City” feat. Redman, Nate Dogg & Warren G
Redman “Da Goodness” feat. Busta Rhymes

Cosmo Baker Presents - The Funk Doc Chronicles.

If you are not lucky enough (like ML) to get in the building for the taping of VH1’s Hip Hop Honors, come to the official screening & after party for a good cause – VH1 Save The Music Foundation.  ML will be in the building.

Pain Language is rocking NY this week! Late notice, but you don’t want to miss this (even though I’m going to miss it, damn it).  Buy tickets here. Also, they’re going to be at Fat Beats on Friday.

The Real Brothers dish out sound financial and career advice in these tough times.