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00:0010 Crimes and Scandals That Shook the Music World
00:03Number 10. How the World's Biggest Hacker Group Extorted a Record Label
00:08Hackers breached Sony Music in 2011, stealing thousands of files and unreleased albums,
00:15prompting sweeping industry cybersecurity reforms.
00:18Number 9. The Rapper Who Confessed to a Forgotten Murder After 17 Years
00:23Houston rapper Travel Coleman confessed on a 2019 podcast to a 2002 murder.
00:30Corroborating evidence led to sentencing.
00:33Number 8. How an ISIS Rapper Seduced an FBI Agent
00:37German rapper Dennis Cuspert became ISIS propagandist,
00:42manipulating an FBI agent into leaking documents before dying in a 2018 airstrike.
00:48Number 7. The Rapper Who Signed a Three Mallers Deal, then Robbed a Bank
00:53Despite a $3 million deal, Bump J robbed a bank in 2007,
00:58received seven years, derailing his career.
01:01Number 6. The Teenage Hip-Hop Assassin with Nine Plus Kills
01:06At 14, Michael Marlowe Mike Louding was tied to multiple homicides.
01:11Lyrics aided prosecution, resulting in a lengthy sentence.
01:15Number 5. Before YNW Melly The First Rapper Sentenced to Death
01:21YNW Melly Faces Double Murder Charges
01:24Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty, citing phone, surveillance, and forensic evidence as trial continues.
01:31Number 4. Killed in His Own Studio
01:34The Unsolved Murder of Jam Master Jay
01:37Jam Master Jay was killed in his Queen Studio in 2002.
01:41Later charges alleged a cocaine deal motive.
01:44Number 3. The Dark Story Behind Kendrick Lamar's King Kunta Sample
01:49Kendrick cleared a 1974 Michael Jackson sample,
01:53navigating multiple rights holders and restorations to connect soul history with hip-hop.
01:59Number 2. How a Pool Game Killed Eminem's Best Friend
02:02Proof died after a dispute at Detroit's CCC Club in 2006,
02:08devastating the city's collaborative music culture.
02:10Number 1. Killed While Collecting a Paycheck
02:14The Unsolved Murder of Fat Pat
02:16Fat Pat was killed in 1998 while collecting a $500 fee,
02:21shocking Houston's rising hip-hop scene.
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