Guess What These Artists’ Real Names Are?
Submitted by Kiki on December 16, 2009 – 4:21 pm8 Comments
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Nicki Minaj (sure isn’t her given name)
Just for fun, we compiled a list of Hip Hop/R&B artists who go by alias names, and included the names their mamas gave them.
Check after the jump for some potentially surprising given names of stars like Nelly, Gucci Mane, Foxy Brown, and more:
David Banner was born Levell Crump
T-Pain was born Faheem Najm
Fabolous was born John Jackson
Foxy Brown was born Inga Marchand
Ginuwine was born Elgin Lumpkin
Nelly was born Cornell Haynes Jr.
Gucci Mane was born Radrick Davis
Snoop Dogg was born Cordazar Calvin Broadus
Nicki Minaj was born Onika Maraj
I knew about all of these except Fabolous. John Jackson, huh? That’s a peculiarly average-sounding name for someone with such an above-average flow.
ELGIN LUMPKIN!?!??! Lumpkin? Bwhaahaha
Who makes up names like these?
Oh, I forgot. I didn’t know about Nicki Minaj either. Her name is kinda close to the original, I guess (and it rhymes with it).
I think we all knew that her real last name wasn’t Minaj, though.
i knew her name was maraj…lolz in onna her throw bacxsz she saysz itsz nicki maraj….lolz but itsz weird that itsz a real name.. and @ginuwine.. fareal tho..elgin…lumpkin! lmaoo
yeah nicki was type given she said it in a few songs…
nicki betta sleep wit one eye open cuz imma steal tha hoodie , nd them shoes
omg… nelly i love yo song… and u so fine…. lol…