false advertising in rap names

2. digital underground

when i 1st heard the name of pac's old group during the 96/97 big beat era i figured it would be on some like chemical brothers shit

3. Dr. Dre

Thought that he would spit intelligent rhymes that I could footnote in my thesis.

4. T.I.

Thought this would be the dawn of "math-rap", rhymes about graphing functions n' shit.

when i 1st heard the name of pac's old group during the 96/97 big beat era

this is a put-on, rite?

i was 13

i think gabbneb was just wondering why you didn't call it the 'clinton era'

Hot Rod

lolz @ "pac's old group" - dude was a dancer with a couple guest verses

oh you got me shakey mo i dont know anything about pac

man yr bitchy today

how did you react when tupac died, shakey?!?

what in hell does "thizzed" mean?

I was never a huge Tupac fan, but even so it just seemed like a stupid and pointless death. Sad.

he ain't dead.

[moving to ilm]

haha mac lethal is a good one, i saw that name and was all like why is dude doing a show w/atmosphere?

i always thought the individual names of the 3-6 mafia dudes were sort of weird for them....Juicy J sounds like some kinda Le Tigre type Miami Bass chick rapper from the mid 80s....DJ Paul is so generic it could be some kind of backpacker DJ from Mpls or something...Lord Infamous sounds like a forgotten type lyrical/kinda thug NYC dude from the mid-90s...like some member of Screwface I'd forgotten abt...

Young Black Teenagers

pretty much takes the cake right there.

Young Turk

i thought he would be a progressive ottoman-legacy threat to the monarchic theocracy

actually that might describe him perfectly

Noreaga. Dude seems barely conversant on the basics of the Panama-CIA late-80s connection.

damn i'm corny

gorilla zoe is not a gorilla.

Noreaga. Dude seems barely conversant on the basics of the Panama-CIA late-80s connection.

Didn't he just do a song on this though? I haven't heard it, but the lyrics were analyzed on XXL's "Train of Thought" column.

but for real i had high hopes for uncle murda to be on some gully mobb deep shit, but he just sounds silly to me.

Kid Rock. Dude looks about 60.

Peedi Crakk (insert child pornography gag here)

aloe blacc

thought this would be a west coast hoo-bangin cali dude like 40 glocc

Lil' Boosie is not like a kitten or something.

hegleson is only dude who understood this thread

You guys should hook up then.

http://images.indieclick.com/images/728x90rapper.gif

ahahaha

finally, truth in advertising

http://www.ninjawax.com/images/hitit.jpg

what a fucking idiot

Yeah. Who does he think is gonna buy his album, people who don't like rap? Well, I guess the Beastie Boys left a big enough vacuum.

ZANG

A- on Stylus!

The segue between “Calm Down Baby” and the above monologue is startling, because it forces out in the open exactly what you were thinking, that, “man, this song could be really good if the guy didn’t sound so…white.”

uh

not rappers, but kind of the reverse I guess:

Born Ruffians....they are some generic indie rock band but based on the name I always assumed they were a somewhat dancehall influenced hip-hop group, possibly from Canada or England.

http://www.speakoutnow.org/img/original/Dec_Jan_Complex_Mag_Jus_sm.jpg

http://mynameisearlkress.com/weblog/birdman.jpg

tupac

i thought id be a dual pack (of rappers)

Leann Rimes

Looks like a rapper's name, but isn't a rapper.

Glasses Malone

Does not use corrective eyewear.

mc 900 ft Jesus is neither 900ft tall nor the son of god.

If anyone was ever going to argue that LeAnn Rimes actually is a rapper it'd be xhuxk, so now I know for sure she isn't.

my wife thought i was a sick bastard when i laughed my ass off at the irony of this on the tv news this morning:

http://gothamist.com/2008/03/26/brooklyn_rapper.php

I also though, at first, that The Clientele were some sort of slick New York hip-hop group.

Obviously Supreme Clientele plays into it, but still.

LeAnn Rimes vs. Busta Rhymes: both teenage prodigies, both had big hits in '96, although she seems to have found the career thread just as he has lost it.

I was amused, or something, to learn that The Samples were a jam band, rather than rap or electronica.

wow obscure ironically named rapper bucked down mere blocks from my home

you might be next

I also though, at first, that The Clientele were some sort of slick New York hip-hop group.

Obviously Supreme Clientele plays into it, but still.

-- mehlt, Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:19 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is a good one...also there was an old school west coast dude called Cli-N-Tel, so it's pretty close already

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli-N-Tel

Kool Keith could easily be the sobriquet of a bone-headed thug rapper.

I was amused, or something, to learn that The Samples were a jam band, rather than rap or electronica.

There's also Joe Sample, the pianist for The Crusaders. Sample is his real surname though. He's even released an album called "Sample This".

On a slightly different note, I knew someone at school who thought Pearl Jam were a female rap duo.

^^ haha

qwote

thought this was like a molemen-style chi lyrical cat not http://www.myspace.com/qwotemusic

yeah that is weird.

Curren$y seems weird to me, at least him being from NO...sounds like a more late 90s NYC type name.

everybody on no limit had names like that though... what about sons of funk or gambino family

yeah that's tru(e)

http://www.combination-rec.com/fileadmin/user_upload/videos/jake_hollow.mov

This German guy is called "Jake the Rapper", but he doesn't seem to rap. The tune is pretty good though.

great thread

especially:

i always thought the individual names of the 3-6 mafia dudes were sort of weird for them....Juicy J sounds like some kinda Le Tigre type Miami Bass chick rapper from the mid 80s....DJ Paul is so generic it could be some kind of backpacker DJ from Mpls or something...Lord Infamous sounds like a forgotten type lyrical/kinda thug NYC dude from the mid-90s...like some member of Screwface I'd forgotten abt...

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:49 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

Do 3-6 Mafia play up the 3-6 part of their name. I, having never really taken the time to get deeply into them, thought it was just arbitrary until I heard this one song (I think it's called 3-6 club house) where they rap about like, psychotic murder and what have you.

yeah triple 6 was on kind of a horrorcore tip when they first came out, gradually downplayed that angle more and more over time.

Le Tigre type Miami Bass chick rapper from the mid 80s

uh, surely you meant L'Trimm

hahahaha yeah jeez that's what i meant.

haha i thought you meant the kind of chick rapper le tigre would rep for

2. digital underground

when i 1st heard the name of pac's old group during the 96/97 big beat era i figured it would be on some like chemical brothers shit

This has always bothered me too!

tupac

i thought id be a dual pack (of rappers)

-- jhøshea, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:31 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

I actually thought it was an album Snoop and Dre did together, so you're not alone.

is this the new kayne west - get well soon thread?

haha i thought you meant the kind of chick rapper le tigre would rep for

I thought this too! It works either way.

hahaha pw

qwote

thought this was like a molemen-style chi lyrical cat not http://www.myspace.com/qwotemusic

― and what, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:56 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just came to this thread to post about qwote & seriously forgot i already had

i heard digital underground when they came out so my frame of reference was something like technotronic or snap

Always had Crooked I down as being some kinda Cannibal Ox "journey into the centre of your mindscape" shit, didn't realise he was meant to be great West Coast poet thug hope.

Fact: I used to very commonly mistake Digital Underground for Deee-Lite.

Chingy is not very chingy.

I just found out that Twi The Humble Feather is some bullshit third-wave NYC freakfolk bullshit band and not a PM Dawn-styled touchy-feely slam-rapper peddling his introspective wares at Bowery Powery Club

not really false advertising in rap names is it

since it's a rap name that's actually an indie rock band, i think it counts

http://therapup.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/wfdj_popchartlab_thegrandtaxonomyofrapnames.jpg

Just seen that on metafilter. It's shit.

Why?

Rick Ross, obv

lol

masta killa

http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/masta%20killa%20peta2-thumb-200x266.jpg

Young Turk

i thought he would be a progressive ottoman-legacy threat to the monarchic theocracy

― luriqua, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:00 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually that might describe him perfectly

― luriqua, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:01 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

^^^ vintage luriqua

wiz khalifa sounds like a new york backpacker from the early 2000s, possibly gangstarr-affiliated

or a fourth-string wu-ganger

*tanger

Now now, all you all you dye, is this shit right here
Boom, and this, yaknowhatI'msayin? Any color you want
But it'd be like, black and yellow, yaknowhatI'msayin?

Sage The Gemini doesn't sound like he makes "ratchet" strip club music, more like some dude who would have recorded with Saafir

haha otm

Oh man Saafir #boxcarsessions