These "Real" Fake Celebrity Names Should Be Their Stage Personas

May 2024 ยท 4 minute read

There's a meme for the entirety, together with our obsession for realizing a performer's real identify.

Mustafa Gatollari - Author

It's no secret that many celebrities continuously undergo an extreme character rebranding in order to cross after their desires and have a career in their selected field.

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Eminem, AKA Slim Shady, is a distinct individual than Marshall Mathers. The "Lady Gaga" character advanced by Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is a powerhouse that I'm sure took a heck of a lot of paintings to broaden, and I'm lovely sure that it doesn't say "Childish Gambino" on Donald Glover's birth certificate, despite the fact that that may've been a unconditionally boss move from his oldsters.

It's slightly unnerving infrequently while you discover the real names of your favourite artists, too, which is almost certainly why there are such a large amount of pieces that crop up online to tap you on the shoulder and say, "Hey, did you know that so and so's real name is actually..." and naturally you'll click on on them. Because if you happen to did not, you would not know that Rick Ross' real title is in reality William Leonard Roberts II.

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And as a result of there is never a scarcity of rising ability and new artists, there'll by no means be a scarcity of wonder when other folks to find out their actual names. And since we are residing in a wonderful time of the web where even the most niche and inside-jokey of developments get the meme-treatment, other people have grew to become the very follow of finding rappers' real names into a meme.

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And I'm very, very happy that they did, as a result of a few of these "real" names are completely hilarious. For example, do you know that Cardi B's identify actually stands for Cardigan Backyardigan?

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All proper, so it's a very simple meme format: you get a template that makes it seem like a Google Search consequence and then you definately smash down an individual's name into two random words that proportion a tenuous connection to the artist's stage name.

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And it shouldn't be humorous. It mustn't make you snort. I mean folks are not even in reality making jokes with it. It's actually just two phrases that have 0 relation with one some other, positioned side via aspect in a fake screenshot.

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And I get logically why it shouldn't make sense. I am getting logically why it mustn't make me snort, but right here I'm cackling away considering that there might be a universe where someone named Curtis James Jackson III "50th Century," and that he simply is going by 50 Cent for brief.

The best possible part is that the "real names" make even less sense than probably the most maximum nonsensical and silly stage names. Check out our "Gucci Gang" big name, Lil Pump below.

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Someone managed to squeeze four hilarious fake monikers into one tweet and I have to mention, I'm nothing if now not impressed. Try and browse Eminem's "actual" identify with out cracking a smile. Unless you have got something in opposition to the identify Clarence.

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I imply if my closing name was once Coleslaw, I'd almost certainly wish to alternate it too. But if anything he may just rap about how he's the most productive side on any menu, except we are talking about dry coleslaw. Then just call it salad, what the hell.

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It should not have been a humorous name record without a cameo from the at all times very good Benedict Cumberbatch. The best possible part of making a laugh of his name is that they're handiest slightly extra made up than his precise name.

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Yep, not anything to look her, just anyone imagining that "The Rock" is short for "Theodore Rockingchair." The Rock does not appear to be he sits in rocking chairs. Hit people over the top with metal ones in a ring? Yes.

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T-Pain has a longstanding relationship with Johnson & Johnson, if this interpretation of his "actual" identify is to be believed. Must be why his auto-tuned crooning is so soothing.

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Little known made-up truth: Jay-Z was an extra in all three Lord of the Rings movies. How messed up is it that most of the people simplest know your nation exists because a fable film used to be set in your beautiful land?

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And now, the best for final. No matter how repeatedly I see this one, I stay cracking up guffawing. In Maloney we believe.

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