Hip Hop is a style of upbeat music mostly accompanied by rhyming words which are being chanted. It originated in Harlem and the South Bronx back in 1970 among black and Latinos.
The genre of hip-hop music has always been associated with gang fights, drug abuse, self-mutilation, politics and case battles. Below are 5 of some of the crazy tales in the hip-hop music industry.
Geto Boys
The rap group from Texas with members called Willie D, Scarface and Bushwick Bill – born with dwarfism from Jamaica. In May of 1991, a suicidal Bill got into a fight with his girlfriend, while drunk, and asked her to shoot him. And after threatening he’d throw her baby out a window, she shot her in his right eye out. This story later inspired his song “Ever So Clear”. The Geto Boys even used Bill’s bloody picture as their album cover called “We Can’t Be Stopped”.
Antron Singleton
Popularly known as the rapper “Big Lurch”. On April 10 of 2002, while in the influence of smoking PCP which induces psychosis, Big Lurch murdered his 21-year-old roommate Tynisha Ysais. Her mutilated body was in her apartment while witnesses saw Lurch walking, bloody, down the street. After his arrest, evidences revealed human flesh found in his stomach, not his own. Years later, DNA results of the flesh in Lurch’s stomach confirmed that it does not match that of Tynisha’s. However, Lurch is still serving life imprisonment in California State.
Coolio
The rapper known for the 1995 hit song “Gangsta’s Paradise”, a soundtrack from the movie “Dangerous Minds”. After his career stalled, Coolio released his own cookbook called “Cookin’ with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”. It is not your typical cookbook as it includes recipes like Drunk-Ass Chicken and Bro-Ghetti, with quotes such as "This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison."
Houston Edward Summers IV
Shortly known as Houston. A rapper in 2004 with the hit single “I Like That”. With the influence of PCP, he became suicidal and attempted to jump out a window. He proceeded to self-mutilation by taking his eye out using a fork, claiming that it was his way to “kill the devil”. He was then institutionalized with mental illness.
Russell Tyrone Jones
Popularly known as Wu Tang Clan’s member Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Russell’s FBI file lists offenses such as murder, robbery, possession of illegal drugs and more. Despite these offenses, he gained popularity in 1995 by taking a limo to the welfare office asking for food stamps. He escaped a drug facility back in 2000 and died in overdose on November 2004.
Crazy or not, music can still influence people in large ways.