Before They Were Famous

Nicki Minaj is still famous! I know you guys are going to say that in the comments, and I agree. She's actually more than famous... She's a living legend, an icon in the music industry and that's not changing anytime soon. Still, throughout her career, Nicki's had plenty of beefs, struggles, and controversies, and I've wanted to cover this stuff for some time. And with a few different dust-ups happening over the past few weeks, I feel like this is my chance! This video is fire diving deeply into all her beefs from her fellow female rappers including Remy Ma and Cardi B to exes including Safaree. The dude said she tried to kill him. Most recently, Nicki has faced backlash in the media surrounding her new album, Queen. First, she caught flack for her collaboration with 6ix9ine, because of his history of sex crimes. Treway! Colorful Hair, Don't Care! Find out more in this video... #NickiMinaj #AfterTheyWereFamous #Queen

If your anything like me you has been suckered into watching hours and hours of #AncientAliens. I grew up obsessed with this kinda stuff but when I watch the show now as an educated adult I can't help but yell at the TV by some of the Ludacris claims that are made. Most notably by our boy Giogio. It's this kinda stuff that had me wanting to make this video. Who the hell is this guy? Where does he get the gusto to make these outlandish claims? What is with his hair... Thankfully I know a dude who does his research on everybody under the sun. Me. So let's do this! #GiorgioTsoukalos #AncientAliensMeme

It's impossible to keep track of everything going on with social media these days... but there has been a major beef brewing between two cleaning products turned rappers, I'm talking about Lil Kloroxxx and Lil Windex. Don't know who these boys are? Let me introduce you.

Lil Windex wants to clean up the rap game and had some success with his 2017 track cleaning up clocking in almost 10 Million views. Lil Koroxxx doesn't want to just clean up the game he wants to reinvent it. In fact, he told TMZ that's he's... well take a look.

For those of you who don't catch the reference he's referring to himself as the new leader of pop art, these are bold words but he does have the music and video production skills to back this up. You guys might think I'm a little biased in the creation of this video because I've interviewed Lil Kloroxxx in the past but Lil Windex is actually a Canadian boy who is trying to crack it in the rap game. For long time fans of my work, you know that I know this grind all too well.

The beef between these two men is very real, despite the geographical distance with Lil Kloroxxx being based in LA these two men have to take things next level and their beef made it onto the local news. In this podcast, we are gonna put an end to any discussion breaking down who of these two cleaning themed rappers is the true victor. In our last Versus podcast between Drake and Fousey Tube 81% of you backed the 6 God. I got a feeling this one is gonna be a little more even. My name is Michael McCrudden and without further ado, let's jump into this Versus podcast.

Yung Bans is one of the pioneers of the Sound Cloud revolution and was performing at shows alongside PlayboyCarti, 21 Savage, Ski Mask The Slump, and XXXTentacion back when they were taking the stage in front of just a handful of people. Bans have an endless catalog of hits and well as a ton of support from both underground and mainstream acts but the burglary and murder charge he caught when he was just 15 has caused him a major hiccup in his destiny for greatness. This video is a pretty epic one with tons of never before seen footage and insight into the beginnings of the Soundcloud rapper era.

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Jojo Siwa made her debut on Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition before ending up on Dance Moms alongside Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler. She has then gone on to create a massive online following on YouTube and Instagram and has released a couple of singles like BOOMERANG and Every Girl's A Super Girl.

She has collaborated with stars like Miranda Sings and Jacob Sartorius, David Dobrik and Casey Neistat and has even called out Logan Paul to do a collab.

Alex Jones has made headlines once again, with Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify purging his podcasts, pages and channels from their platforms. This may be the biggest hit to an influencer in the history of social media. Depending on how you look at it, it was either a major victory against fake news and hate speech or a dangerous strike against freedom of speech. Either way, with these massive blows to his digital media empire, it's anyone's guess as to whether the conspiracy tycoon will be able to continue to rail against the deep state, peddle products like Brain Force Plus, or simply make chimpanzee noises.

There are a lot of people who are die-hard fans of Dragon Ball Z but how many of them have full-on embraced a character's style, its tattoos and adopted one's name as their rap moniker. When Kid Buu was tripping on shrooms and first introduced to Lil Xan Kid Buu were the first words that came to mind, that's how he introduced himself and the name has stuck ever since. You probably remember there was a meme circulating the web that X had gone all Kid Buu while performing at a show, not only do the two rappers share this in common. They are both from the Miami area and grew up close to their mothers while struggling to stay in school and out of trouble...

Jason Momoa has risen to the ranks of Hollywood Elite by it's been a long climb to the top with him getting his first break back as an actor way back in 1999. Oddly enough this was another series revolving around water. A Hawaii spin-off of everyone's favourite soap opera Baywatch. Prior to this Jason had plans of having become a professional rock climber and his childhood dream was to make it to the show as a hockey player but an injury put an end to this plan.

Damn Long Neck, also known as Daddy Long Neck became well known after posting a few videos on Instagram, including a video where he's seen dancing to Tekashi 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj's new single Fefe inside a Walmart, and his In My Feelings challenge video, where he's seen dancing to Drake's new hit single

We sat down in an exclusive interview with him on this episode of Before They Were Famous, where he shared with us some intimate details about his ongoing success.