Rapper’s Real Names
I found this list of real celebrity names on the web. Now, obviously I didn’t think that Snoop Dogg was the rapper’s given name, but some of them are surprising. Some seem silly. You can see the entire list here: 2Spare.com but here’s a list of some.
Good Changes
- Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.)
- Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson)
- Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
- Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra)
- Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
What’s the point?
- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
- Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop)
- Mariah Carey (Maria Nuñez)
Overall, most of the changes seemed to take a pretty normal name like Andre Benjamin and make it flashier, like Andre 3000 or a foreign sounding name like Ramon Estevez and turn it into an “American” sounding name like Martin Sheen. I would have preferred it if all of the people on this list had become famous with their real names, so young girls could look up to Maria Nuñez (Mariah Carey) and nerds could pine for Natalie Hershlag(Natalie Portman).
