"The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel", a single released by Grandmaster Flash in 1981, is a live DJ mix recording of Flash scratching and mixing records from various groups using three turntables.

In the outro of "Let It All Work Out", Wayne opens up about the self-inflicted gunshot wound when he was just 12 years old: "I aimed where my heart was pounding / I shot it, and I woke up with blood all around me / It's mine, I didn't die, but as I was dying / God came to my side and we talked about it / He sold me another life and he made a prophet."

The Detroit rapper achieved a world record with "Rap God". The six-minute track contains 1,560 words which means that Eminem is rapping a tongue-twisting 4.28 words per second.

Lil Nas X came to international attention for his country rap single "Old Town Road", which debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart at number 19. But the rapper's career on the country chart was short-lived. Billboard controversially removed the song from the chart in March 2019, telling Rolling Stone: "When determining genres, a few factors are examined, but first and foremost is musical composition. While "Old Town Road" incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today's country music to chart in its current version."

2Pac not only attacked Biggie's street cred, but claimed to have slept with his wife. "Hit 'Em Up" had a large role in exacerbating the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry, and Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting just three months after its release.

In 2012, after a trip to Jamaica, Snoop announced a conversion to Rastafarianism and told reporters he had been rechristened Snoop Lion by a Rastafarian priest in Jamaica. As Snoop Lion he released a reggae album, Reincarnated, and a documentary film of the same name, about his Jamaican experience. His 13th studio album, Bush, was released in May 2015 and marked a return of the Snoop Dogg name.

Their relationship became a matter of public record on April 22, 2008, but Beyoncé did not publicly debut her $5 million Lorraine Schwartz-designed wedding ring until the Fashion Rocks concert on September 5, 2008.

Slim Shady is the evil and mischievous side of Eminem. He was created when Mathers joined the rap group D12, or the Dirty Dozen. Since there were supposed to be 12 rappers and they only had six, they each came up with an alter ego, and Slim Shady was born. When Eminem raps through the point of view of Slim, his songs are violent and dark, with a comic twist.

Nicki is an expert twerker, as evidenced by appearances in music videos such as Busta Rhymes' "Twerk It", Robin Thicke's "Shakin' It 4 Daddy", Big Sean's "Dance (A$$)", and Wale's "Clappers".

In 2006 Three 6 Mafia won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards for their song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from the film Hustle & Flow, in which Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler aspiring to become a rapper.