I have always wondered: Why do rappers use "rap names"/stage names, in!


Question: Can someone tell me the reason for this, and how it started?


Answers: Can someone tell me the reason for this, and how it started?

Blues artists were doing it first, and hip hop is a natural progression of blues, so suppose some of it came from there.
It's also about the fact that the rap name is an alter ego. In real life these guys might be just playing with their kids and walking the dog, but that's not what they're about when they're rapping, so it's a like a different aspect of their personality. Because hip hop is about being real, it would seem fake to say "this is me" with their real name, when really, it's only the part of them that's making music.
It's a way of distancing yourself from the industry too. The rap game will chew you up and spit you out without a second thought, so to keep a separate identity away from that must be a way of keeping yourself sane.

The same reason why all artists use stage names, their own name is not catchy or boring or strange or not easy to remember of allready made famous by somebody else.

The main idea behind rap and hip hop is to be cool, and when you have names like Christopher Wallace, and Calvin Brodas you can't appear too cool, cause too many people can make fun of your actual name. So they come up with cool sounding nicknames, or street names that they grew up having. Basically because they sound cooler than their actual names

Makes the artist seem more interesting i guess. Plus alot of rappers have ugly or goofy name that wouldnt work out

its not just a rappers thing, actors and actresses do the same, most of the actors names that you know about is usually not thier real name

This was started a really long time ago to make any atraction have a profitable name.Nobody would buy Jay Z if he was called Shawn or T.I if he was called Clifford.Also you dont want people finding yourr phone number and house you know all the **** all these crazy *** stalkers do.

because of STALKERS like you. no, really who wants to listen to a rapper named curtis jackson (50 cent), elgin lumpkin (ginuwine), todd smith (llcoolj), jamie foxx( something bishop), ashanti(tiffany), christopher wallace (B.I.G), sean combs (puffy daddy or diddy or p.diddy), amaru shakur (tupac), melissa (miss elliot), Calvin broudas (snoop dogg), tamar ruffin (nokio from dru hill), tiyonne, lisa lopez (t an l of TLC). NOW, WOULD YOU STILL BUY THE CDs OF THESE ARTISTS, know their real names.???????????????????????

I know this isnt your question but here are the real names of rappers

Ice Cube-O'shea Jackson
Bow Wow - Shad Moss
MC Lyte - Lana Moorer
Da Brat - Shawntae Harris
Ginuwine - Elgin Lumpkin
DMX - Earl Simmons
E-40 - Earl Stevens
Erykah Badu - Erica Wright
J-Holiday - Nahum Grymes
Ja Rule - Jeffrey Atkins
Kurupt - Ricardo Brown
Macy Gray - Natalie Renee McIntyre
Master P - Percy Miller
Mystikal - Michael Tyler
Pitbull - Armando Christian Perez
Plies - Algernod Lanier Washington
Queen Latifah - Dana Owens
R Kelly - Robert Sylvester Kelly
Rhianna - Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Soulja Boy - DeAndre Way
T-Pain - Faheem Najm
Trick Daddy - Maurice Young



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