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- Mako640, on 10/16/2008, -4/+15950 Cent - Curtis Jackson
Akon - Aliuane Badara Thiam
Bow Wow - Shad Gregory Moss
Busta Rhymes - Trevor Tahiem Smith
Chingy - Howard Bailey Jr.
Common - Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.
Coolio - Artis Leon Ivey Jr
Diddy - Sean John Combs
Dr. Dre - Andre Romel Young
Eminem - Marshall Bruce Mathers
Flavor Flav - William Jonathan Drayton, Jr
Flo Rida - Tramar Dillard
Foxy Brown - Inga Marchand
Ghostface Killah - Dennis Coles
Ice Cube - Oshea Jackson
Ice-T - Tracy Marrow
Ja Rule - Jeffery Atkins
Jay-Z - Shawn Corey Carter
Juvenile - Terius Gray
Kanye West - Kanye West
Lil Jon - Johnathan Smith
Lil Mama - Niatia Jessica Kirkland
Lil Wayne - Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
LL Cool J - James Todd Smith
Ludacris - Christopher Brian Bridges
Lupe Fiasco - Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
M.I.A. - Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam
Master P - Percy Miller
Method Man - Clifford Smith
Mos Def - Dante Terrell "Beze" Smith
Nas - Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones
Nelly - Cornell Haynes, Jr.
Notorious B.I.G. - Christopher Wallace
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Russell Tyrone Jones
Q-Tip - Jonathan Davis
Rick Ross - William Leonard Roberts
RZA - Robert Diggs
Snoop Dogg - Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr.
Soulja Boy - DeAndre Ramone Way
T-Pain - Faheem Najm
T.I. - Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.
Timbaland - Tim Mosley
Twista - Carl Mitchell
Vanilla Ice - Robert Van Winckle
will.i.am - William Adams
Xzibit - Alvin Nathaniel Joyner
Young Jeezy - Jay Jenkins - randman89, on 10/16/2008, -3/+102Kanye West's real name is....Kanye West. lol
- Cuongfu, on 10/16/2008, -6/+72Buried for 47 different pages of slideshow...
- theholotrope, on 10/16/2008, -7/+71Kanye West = Kanye West
Dammit. Why couldn't he be called ***** O'Jackson or something. - IanPR, on 10/16/2008, -3/+51Did Lil Wayne get a dick tattoo between his eyebrows?
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/red-rapnames-pg,0 ... - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -4/+44Kanye West's real name is Kanye West
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apparently a lot of people beat me to this comment. - techguru2006, on 10/15/2008, -2/+33Robert Van Winckle FTW --- ice ice baby!!
- pitchblack16, on 10/15/2008, -3/+33Foxy Brown's name is Inga, lol
- acmaurer, on 10/15/2008, -3/+32Do you think that's why people become rap stars? So they can change their names?
- troybulldogs9, on 10/15/2008, -2/+26Looks like Cornell Haynes, Jr. made a wise career decision.
- samscomputer2, on 10/16/2008, -1/+21He's the only one that keeps it real, ya digg?
- jgopp, on 10/16/2008, -0/+20Dugg for Robert "diggs"
- rockon4life45, on 10/16/2008, -2/+21***** TINY CLICKY ARROWS
- AmericanParty, on 10/16/2008, -1/+19hell probably
- completerobot, on 10/16/2008, -0/+17No.
Looks like Lil Wayne did, though.
EDIT: He said Lil Jon first, but he edited a correction in. - mgill3, on 10/16/2008, -1/+18WTF? What gives? Why does everybody gotta hate on Kanye when he actually raps about things other than bling, bitches, ho's, cars, money?
Probably one of the most unique rappers, and everybody has to hate him. - pokergob, on 10/15/2008, -4/+21William Jonathan Drayton.....yeah boyeee!
- AmericanParty, on 10/16/2008, -2/+19yeah, he goes by douche bag
- randman89, on 10/16/2008, -2/+18No Tupac Shakur?? This isn't a Rapper's Real Names list without 2Pac.....
- AmericanParty, on 10/16/2008, -0/+15dugg for the edit!
- Bizarrkley, on 10/16/2008, -1/+16O'Shea Jackson FTW!
They spelled it wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cube_(rapper) - kinseyincanada, on 10/16/2008, -3/+1747 pages...yea im really not that interested.
- RusskiGuy, on 10/16/2008, -0/+14Dugg for Tracy Marrow's wife's outfit in the pic.
- brandon573, on 10/16/2008, -1/+14Link with every rapper and real name: http://www.hip-hop-music-classic.com/Rappers-Real- ...
- Phasmorphage, on 10/16/2008, -0/+13and to think we used to bitch about Cracked being on 5 pages...
- Tubal22, on 10/16/2008, -0/+13Mostly because he's an arrogant prick.
- randman89, on 10/16/2008, -0/+13Well you would think someone would want to keep the name Russell Jones instead of changing it to Ol' Dirty Bastard.
- DieselGrunge, on 10/16/2008, -2/+15How did you put it all on one page?
- xkleenexk, on 10/16/2008, -3/+15so for people that don't know rappers by face, why do they make you look down to the stupid ***** list and back up to the right to find their name again? I got to 6 or 7 and got too annoyed. put the real and fake names next to eachother at least, good lord.
- OhROFL, on 10/16/2008, -0/+12It would be too fitting.
- BedPost, on 10/16/2008, -1/+13Where's Eazy-E?!
- completerobot, on 10/16/2008, -2/+14Oh wait, you said DIGGERS.
- completerobot, on 10/16/2008, -0/+12Jonathan Davis is the lead singer of A Tribe Called Quest.
- seiha, on 10/16/2008, -3/+15Q-Tip is the lead singer of KoRn
- joekix, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11eric wright
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11True. maybe I overreacted, but as soon as I saw Soulja boy I lost it.
- TheVigilante, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11Many rappers have regular-ass names.
- wizawuza, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10I think I'd rather go by Howard over Chingy...
- gllopc, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10Percy? PERCY?!
- harrisbradley, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10'the list'... always a thumbs up from me. Especially this time.
- Scopalamine, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10You deserve a medal for clicking all 47 links
- Stillmatic3, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9Dugg for alphabetizing the list!
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11That ***** ain't gangsta
- FadieZ, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjh9Id6Id8
Also, RZA's name is Robert Diggs. New mascot, anyone? - t3rmv3locity, on 10/16/2008, -1/+10Wait, do any diggers actually listen to rap?
- BaoUnit, on 10/16/2008, -0/+8This is Ludacris.
:P - DoogieHowitzer, on 10/16/2008, -0/+8THANK YOU :)
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