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Pants On Fire: Hip-Hop's Most Exposed Liars

Roxanne Shanté isn't the only rapper to stretch the truth every now and then. Who else has taken poetic license a bit too far?

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You've heard the news by now: Slate has found that rapper Roxanne Shante was not nearly the business-savvy teen that she bragged about being--and that rather than holding her label accountable for her college costs as she went on to get her doctorate degree, she actually didn't ever get a degree at all, let alone make her label pay for it.

But more on that later! Hip-hop (and R&B) is as full of self-mythologizing bluster as the next genre (you ain't no killa, Kenny Chesney!), but sometimes we're amazed at what people try to get away with..which is why we rounded up the biggest fibbers in the biznass. Dear bad liars: try to stay away from polygraphs in the future...

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