Original & Unoriginal Rap Names...

[J Won]

What were some of the most original Rap names you've heard of? Or what about a Rap name that were'nt so original? And those annoying prefixes (Young/Yung-, Lil-...)

[Tash8]

everything with lil or young are annoying

eminem is pretty original well i mean for a rapper it is
rakim, nas, well anything really but Big, lil, and young

[Unscarred]

Eminem, Nas, 2pac, i think this are original names

[J Won]

I read in an interview that Obie Trice orginally wanted his Rap name to be "Obie One", but Proof told him to go with his real name (back in the Hip-Hop Shop days).

[Tash8]

he was called Obie Won, but yea proof told him it's Obie Trice when he was like real young or something

i just read that in a proof magazine interview with obie and d12 and eminem,

[stevethetruth]

mine ain't original that's for damn sure lol

[4D]

Original:

Big Pun: nice pun on punisher.
Canibus/Can-I-Bus a Mic. Clever.
Eminem: Good nameplay on his real initials.
MF Doom: Doom the comic book super-villain is a genius ass mastermind, cool name.
Ice-T: Good pun on Cool Tracy (his real name, lol), and a cold tea drink. Also first to use "Ice" in rap.

Unoriginal

Big L
Lil Jeezy
Dr. Dre (There are two of the mofo's, dunno who's the unoriginal one.)

[J Won]

Original:

Big Pun: nice pun on punisher.
Canibus/Can-I-Bus a Mic. Clever.
Eminem: Good nameplay on his real initials.
MF Doom: Doom the comic book super-villain is a genius ass mastermind, cool name.
Ice-T: Good pun on Cool Tracy (his real name, lol), and a cold tea drink. Also first to use "Ice" in rap.

Unoriginal

Big L
Lil Jeezy
Dr. Dre (There are two of the mofo's, dunno who's the unoriginal one.)

I think there's another guy named Dre, and I think he just produces. But he sucks anyway.

[4D]

Doctor Dre was a host on Yo MTV raps, which I used to watch religiously in the early nieties, but it was confusing as fuck that there was two guys in rap with the sasme name. The Dr. Dre we all know, claims he got his name from his favouruite athlete "Dr. J" Julius Irving, a great basketball player in the seventies and early eighties, and of course dre being short for Andre. Either way, one of them is unoriginal.

[yoshi]

i like Talib Kweli. i know it's his name, but i like how it matches Arabic and Swahili and the meaning of it.

Afrika Bambaataa
Chali 2na
De La Soul [and all their names, like Plug One, Two and Three]
Eminem
Necro rofl
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Guru [i mean the acronym]
Big Daddy Kane
MF Doom

idk.. just from the top of my head, i think they sound pretty cool. not some common shit, Young/Old/Lil'/Big etc lol

[James R.]

I always liked Ludacris
Eminem is pretty original
Nas and 2Pac

I'm noticing I'm liking the names that involve the artist's real names.

[ctodap]

lil wayne- complexity and nice wordplay

[vt_x_spider]

Original ones: Eminem, Obie Trice, Ludacris, Nas, many others
The most unoriginal name: Swizz Beatz

And yeah, lil, young, dogg very unoriginal 2

[DrRapid]

2Pac I was a good one taken form his name Tupac.
Eminem like how he used his name and surname into it.
And more but I'm not bothered to write more...