When you're just too cool...

To use your own damn name.
Generally, you won't find too many people using pseudo names, aside from the occasional changing of the last name of actors, or some pop stars that might use their middle names or what not, but there is a rampant exlposion of people that are just way too cool to use the names their mothers, who carried them for nine months (sometimes whilst on crack), gave them.

I'm talking of course, about rappers...
Now, i realize that i've been pretty hard on the rappers over the past few days, but look at this list, and tell me how you feel afterwards...

• ?uestlove (pretty cool name there using punctuation) - Ahmir-Khalib Thompson
• 50 Cent - Curtis Jackson
• Ashanti (now, she's just using her first name, but..) - Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas (one of those names doesn't fit)
• Chingy - Howard Bailey Jr. (not quite the intimidation factor i guess)
• Chuck D - Carlton Ridenhour (i was disappointed that he had to make up... a LETTER)
• DMX - Earl Simmons (earl's about to lose his mind, up in here...)
• Gangsta Boo - Lola Mitchell (lola, gangsta, same difference if you ask me)
• Ice Cube - Oshea Jackson (i never knew cube was irish)
• Jay-Z - Shawn Carter (you can't spell shawn or carter with a J and a Z... wait, yes you can)
• Lil' Romeo - Percy Romeo Miller (i guess it helps to have Master P as your dad, looking out for your career when you're being named)
• Q-Tip - Jonathan Davis (contrary to popular belief, not the lead singer of KoRn)
• R. Kelly - Robert Kelly (real original there buddy)

In my effort to learn from these brilliant minds of our generation, i shall henceforth be known as: TAGWUTBNJBIABHWAHUN (the asian guy who used to be named jon but isn't anymore because he wanted a hip urban name). Hey, it might not roll off the tongue, but at least it has meaning.



Mitch Hedberg's QotD:

I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.