*** DOH! Alert*** 12 Most Embarassing Exposures In Hip Hop

12 Most Embarassing Exposures In Hip Hop Told By TheRapUp.com

The Rick Ross exposé is a reminder that everyone has skeletons in their closet. Rappers, like everyone else, have some dark, embarrassing secrets that they hope would remain just that - secrets. The difference between us and them is that public figures don’t have the privilege of being able to deal with embarrassing moments in private like the rest of us. But Ross isn’t the only rapper who’s had to lick his wounds in public. Here’s a rundown of 12 most embarrassing exposures in hip-hop history.

12. LA Times: Sorry, we duped you
In March 2008, LA Times writer Chuck Phillips ran a story that somehow tied Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond to the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at Quad Recording Studios. The story, which was based on information obtained from unidentified FBI informants, claimed that Rosemond orchestrated an attack on 2Pac because he felt disrespected by the rapper. The Times further wrote he attack was supposed to be an assault disguised as a robbery, but escalated into a gun fight, resulting in ‘Pac being shot 5 times. Rosemond denied any involvement. Diddy called the report “false and ridiculous.” He was right.

Turns out the story was completely fabricated by a convicted con man who enjoys making a fool out of hip-hop journalists. Among several structural inconsistencies, the expose showed that some of the documents used in the story had been typed on a typewriter, even though the feds stopped using typewriters 30 years ago. LA Times promptly apologized for their journalistic failure. Said Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin in his statement: “We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck’s. I deeply regret that we let our readers down.” Needless to say, Chuck Philips was laid off after that fiasco.

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This list is pretty funny lol. SMH @ them giving Vanilla Ice free publicity tho, they should have skipped his mishap and picked someone else, when's the last time you seen someone write about Vanilla Ice? lol