Rocky’s real name has a hip-hop story of its own: he was named after the legendary rapper Rakim. Rocky is a nickname his mother gave him growing up it plays off his government name, Rakim Mayers. For them, ASAP stands for Always Strive And Prosper.
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“If y’all don’t see me with jewelry, I’m still 2 Chainz,” he told Fuse.Ī$AP Rocky and the rest of the mob have the stylized acronym A$AP in front of their full stage names. His new stage name represents a second chance. Gucci, born Radric Davis, ran with the family name for his stage name.Ģ Chainz may wear two chains, which quickly became a trend in the rap scene shortly thereafter, but that’s not only why he changed his rap moniker from Tity Boi (he is a mama’s boy, which he is not ashamed of!) to 2 Chainz. “She didn’t know nothing about them clothes, ” Gucci told HipHopDX. T.I., born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., borrowed his stage name from a nickname he shared with his grandfather.Īlthough Gucci Mane has been known to wear full-on Gucci gear, that’s not why the rapper goes by Gucci Mane: Gucci’s grandmother gave his dad the name.
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There?s the whole cocaine connotation from the name of my DVD series with Tony Montana, plus I kind of bare a resemblance in the skin tone.” “Then the Montana thing I just picked it up. So when I came over here, the name French just kind of stuck with me,” he told in 2009. “France had tried to take over Morocco, not in my time obviously, but there are still influences there from the French culture. It didn’t hurt that his friends would call him young Wiz since he was “ good at everything.”įrench Montana mixed the history and culture of his homeland (Morocco) with his fascination with Tony Montana to create his rap moniker. He later shortened his name to Wiz when he was 15 years old.
His uncle then added Khalifa, which means “successor” in Arabic. Wiz Khalifa‘s family knew that he was born to succeed: inspired by his uncle’s name, which means “knowledge” in Arabic, the rapper, born Cameron Jibril Thomaz, named himself Wisdom. To this day, Ross gets heat for his nickname considering he was a correctional officer for 18 months in 1995. Rick Ross, born William Leonard Roberts II, picked up his stage name from drug dealer, Freeway Rick Ross. Both have also been shot several times and survived. In his “ The Infamous Times – Volume I: The Original 50 Cent” DVD, the rapper shares that he shares the same mentality as the original 50 which is to survive by any means. When 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, decided to put his days of drug-dealing behind him and pursue rap, he adopted a rap moniker from someone who he felt he had much in common with: Brooklyn stick-up kid Kelven “50 Cent” Darnell Martin.
He later added on to the Charlie Brown inspiration by adding “Doggy Dogg” when beginning his rap career through Death Row Records. Snoop Dogg, born Cordozar Calvin Broadus, was nicknamed Snoopy by his mom when he was a kid. It was probably a good idea for we doubt the Mars candy company would let the Detroit rapper live if he would have stuck with the former. Eminem originally went by his initials, M&M (for Marshall Matthers), but later changed it to Eminem. Rappers tend to stick to short rap monikers if their names aren’t short. In Jay-Z‘s days as a youngin’ he was known as “Jazzy.” He later changed his rap moniker to Jay-Z to salute his mentor rapper and producer, Jaz-O, and the subway lines of his hometown of Brooklyn. Gucci Mane, who Waka is currently on bad terms with, later added the “Flame” to his stage name. Waka’s cousin named him after Fozzie’s catchphrase, “Waka, waka, waka.” “I’ve got a Fozzie chain, ’cause when i was younger, me and my cousin used to watch it and he started calling me ‘Waka,'” he said in a 2010 interview. Who doesn’t have a favorite childhood cartoon or animated character? For Waka Flocka Flame, the televised stuffed boo that charmed him was Fozzie from the Muppet Babies.
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