Finally Famous : 10 Rappers With Pasts They Wish We Would Forget About

We’ve all done things we regret. For some of us these past transgressions have been worse than others. But when someone becomes famous, it is virtually impossible for them to escape their pasts. Especially when their pre-fame life totally contradicted the persona they now put off in the media. They are just asking for somebody to pull that card.

Here are 10 rappers who have skeletons in their closets that they probably wish never got out into the public.

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Ross The Recruit

Claim To Fame…

Gained popularity after dropping the 2005 hit “Hustlin’,” and has become one of the most consistent rap acts in the game. The boss of all bosses and former drug dealer of all drug dealers.

Shhhh…

In 2008, TheSmokingGun found documents that confirmed that Rozay graduated from Florida’s Department of Corrections training academy and was employed as a prison guard from December 1995 to June 1997. To play devil’s advocate, he could have been one of those dirty COs whose sole purpose of getting on the force was to help get that work in. But the fact that he flat out denied the allegations all together when the facts were initially brought forth makes its clear that the boss would like nothing other than to have this part of his past leaf blown under the rug.

World Class Dre

Claim To Fame…

One of the founding fathers of gangster rap. The guy who brought you quintessential Hip-Hop acts like N.W.A., Snoop Dogg and the classic LP, The Chronic. He is also the producer of wildly overpriced headphones and a habitual liar ——–> (Detox).

Shhhh…

Before he was spitting rhymes about mobbin’ on the police and how it was nothing but a G thang, Dre was rocking outfits that even Kanye West would call ghey as a member of the techno Hip-Hop group, World Class Wreckin’ Cru in the early 80s. In contrast to his next endeavor, N.W.A., the quartet was softer than baked pudding, even releasing an album called Rapped In Romance. For his gangster image’s sake, we are sure he’d wish we have amnesia about those days and only remember him coming straight out of Compton.

Wheel Chair Drizzy

Claim To Fame

International rap star and member of Lil Wayne’s Young Money record label. Went from mixtape success to becoming one of the most lucrative Hip-Hop acts of the past five years.

Shhhh…

Before Drake was Rico Suave slash Michael Corleone (sarcasm people), he was just some square actor on a Canadian tween show. Yep, heartthrob Drizzy was “Wheelchair” Jimmy Brooks, a spoiled kid with an affinity for white girls and a hairline that resembled the west coast of Africa. He gets blazed in the back, ends up wheelchair bound and is forced to go to high school for a fifth year in order to graduate. Since Aubrey is now, “mobbin like that,” bets are he’s glad people have almost forgotten about the uni-brow days.

Game Changer

Claim To Fame…

Game came into the public eye as the West coast muscle of 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records in the mid 2000s and has since name-dropped and dissed his way to mainstream popularity. The ultimate bad azz rapper.

Shhhh…..

In 2000, a 21-year-old, tatt free Game appeared on the dating game show, Change Of Heart and endured 30 minutes of pure unadulterated humiliation from then girlfriend Sadita. “All he do is smother me or cry like a baby,” said Sadita. “That’s all he does.” (Sticky Fingaz voice) But, but, but, but, wait, it gets worse! She went on to downplay the size of his manhood, lack of wheels and floundering ambition. The final embarrassing blow was cast when Game chose to “Stay Together” while his GF had a “Change of Heart.” We can’t make this stuff up people.

Plies The Prized Pupil

Claim To Fame…

Hit the scene in the mid 2000s as one of the hardest acts out of Gunshine state since Trick Daddy and has since new-age Luther Campbelled his way up the charts. Resume solid, street cred bigger. A goon’s goon. Goon of the Year, four years straight.

Shhhh….

In 2008, HipHopDX ran an exclusive story detailing Plies’ criminal past. Or lack thereof. According to their findings, the ultimate goon’s first run in with the law was in 2006 after he was already a gold-certified artist. Their reports also unveiled that the “goon affiliated ex-drug dealer” was actually a well-rounded student who attended University of Central Florida and Miami University before dropping out.

Ballerina P(rodigy)

Claim To Fame…

One-half of one the hardest groups to ever come out of NYC, Mobb Deep. Hails from the world famous Queensbridge Housing Projects. He once threatened to give Jesus the eye-jammie. So, yeah, there’s that too.

Shhhh….

As a youth, P studied tap and ballet at his grandmother’s dance studio. Jay-Z let the cat out of the bag during his infamous 2001 Summer Jam performance of “Takeover” when he posted pictures of P at the school from 1988. We think it is safe to say that if Prodigy had seen that cat in an alley before hand, he would have smothered it with a pillow and dropped it off at a landfill.

The Beige Ranger (Ice T)

Claim To Fame….

Ice T is one of the most prominent names in the genre of early gangster rap. He dropped albums like Original Gangster and Home Invasion. He mixed pimpish style with OG swag. The “Cop Killer.”

Shhhh….

At, 17, after failing as a small-time drug dealer and thief , T joined the military to be all that he could be. He served under the 25th Infantry Division but wasn’t too good at that, once getting locked up for stealing an infantry rug.

Pre Panther Pac

Claim To Fame…

Pac is one of the most beloved Hip-Hop artists of all time. Known for his militant mind state, gritty wit, and cold depictions of street life in his music. He epitomized the term gangster rapper in the mid ‘90s.

Shhhh….

As a teen in Baltimore, a socially articulate Pac attended The Baltimore School For Performing Arts. While there, he took….wait for it….ballet classes. And liked it. Yup, Mr. Thug Life was rocking skintight leotards on some Black Swan ish. And digging every minute of it.

N-Word Em

Claim To Fame….

Eminem is the biggest selling rap act of the 2000s. He jumped on the scene co-signed by Dr. Dre in the late ‘90s and has become one of the biggest artists ever. Everybody’s favorite white boy.

Shhhh…

In 1993, following a bad breakup with his then Black girlfriend, Em dropped a scathing freestyle filled with racial slurs targeting Black women. The tape was later discovered by then Source owner Ray Benzino who put the Detroit rapper on front street during a well-documented beef between the two. Em later apologized, saying the freestyle was made out of anger when he was a teenager. Slim Shady would go on to have an unprecedented rap career and Benzino is, well, Benzino. Go figure.

Normal Nicki

Claim To Fame…

She is a female rap superstar on Lil Wayne’s Young Money record label and the only relevant woman MC in the game today. She is what you get when you mix Lil Kim, Lady GaGa and that paranoid schizophrenic bum that is always on the subway blurting out random gibberish. A pop megastar in the makings.

Shhhh…

Before the [Editor’s Note: Alleged.] nose job, sparkling new veneers, boob job, butt injections [Editor’s Note: Again, alleged.], excessive makeup (stops to take breath) and schizoid breakdown, Nicki Minaj was a really regular female rapper from Jamaica, Queens. Hard to believe, we know. And from the way she acts now, we doubt she wants this secret out. But, yep, prior to the fame, Nicki was, well, normal. Again, we cannot make this stuff up.