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Hip-Hop Breakups: The Hit Squad Vs. SkyPager

By a Gossiping Bitch on August 27th, 2010

Back in the day rappers had a pre-Twitter-like service in SkyTel’s, SkyPager (made famous by the Tribe Called Quest song of the same name). Rappers would call an 800 number, dictate their message to an operator in 140 characters or less who in turn would type the correspondence to the recipient’s receiving pager.

Did you know this was how EPMD and the Hit Squad broke up?

Gossiping Bitches has uncovered SkyPager transcripts between Parrish Smith (@P$) and K-Solo (@ThaFugitive)…Only problem is, Parrish dialed the wrong pin number…

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