Here Are More Stories Behind Your Favorite Hot 97 Summer Jam Moments

Anything can happen at Summer Jam.

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Hot 97’s Summer Jam is the premiere hip-hop concert event of the year, and on Friday, we published an oral history that pulled back the curtain on some of the show’s memorable moments. We reminisced about Michael Jackson hitting that Summer Jam stage, Swizz and Kanye’s beat battle, and the time Nas tried to hang a Jay Z doll. But Summer Jam has been around since 1994, and a lot came up during reporting that didn’t fit in the oral history. Here are 5 more Summer Jam stories.

Thomas Golianopoulos is a writer living in New York. Follow him @Golianopoulos. 

 

The Fabolous, Lil' Kim, and Foxy Brown set that never was

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The rumors of a station-wide Wu-Tang Clan ban

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The time Lil Wayne scared off Kanye

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The entire (exhausting) Peter Rosenberg/Nicki Minaj/”Starships” controversy

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The great (alleged) chain-snatching during 50 Cent and G-Unit's set

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