# What Would Your Hip-Hop Name Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668 "2006-03-31T05:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/21 "2006-03-31T16:08:03Z")
A guy at work calls me Thumpa D, on account of the twin four-and-a-quarters and the 6.5" bazooka I got in my Tracker. Boom, baby! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/22 "2006-03-31T16:16:04Z")
The child and I have rapper names. I am **Elinem**. Playing on Eminem, only my initials are…oh never mind, if I have to explain, you missed it. She is **49 cent**. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/23 "2006-03-31T16:38:52Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Me, I’m torn between calling myself either MC Escher or Tone Def. I had a friend who was radio DJ (80s hip-hop, R&B) who went by Tone Def Jeff. I guess I would have to be MC G-squared, although G-square might be more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/24 "2006-03-31T16:40:47Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Amenenema Amenenemanymous ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/25 "2006-03-31T16:46:22Z")
> [@MessyPaint](#): > > Amenenemanymous It kinda sounds like “I’m a hippopotamus” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/26 "2006-03-31T17:02:37Z")
I’d be either _White Choklit_, _Cool Papa Piro_ or _Lap Dawg G.A.Y._. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/27 "2006-03-31T17:08:09Z")
I got mine straight out of a Conn saxophone ad from the 1930s: **The Notorious Buzzy A.** ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/28 "2006-03-31T18:04:43Z")
> [@MessyPaint](#): > > It kinda sounds like “I’m a hippopotamus” Prepocerus! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/29 "2006-03-31T18:15:35Z")
Big Ezr ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/30 "2006-03-31T21:22:16Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I’m thinking\*\* DJ Hooker\*\* or **Spin Sycle**. > > **Case** , If you switch to death metal music, you could change your name to “Tone Death.” Adding an apostrophe could make it into pretentious goth tunes: “Tone D’Eath” What, no umlauts? MC MXCIX ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/31 "2006-03-31T21:24:47Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > After an amusing attempt to shoot two Russian pistols simultaneously, one of my shooting buddies dubbed me **TuMak Shaker**. Hijack: Tell me that wasn’t a Tokarev, was it? Had it been retrofitted with a safety? ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/32 "2006-03-31T22:13:26Z")
I like to call myself “The Notorious M.A.Y.O.” It works better when you know that my last name is, indeed, Mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/33 "2006-03-31T22:34:55Z")
Grandmasta Specta Pithecazanthropus ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/34 "2006-04-02T05:05:59Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > Hijack: Tell me that wasn’t a Tokarev, was it? Had it been retrofitted with a safety? No, it was two Makarovs. Hence, the name. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/35 "2006-04-02T05:36:21Z")
Me? nothing more than: _Pizza FOO!_ ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/36 "2006-04-02T08:41:09Z")
MC Donald’s ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/37 "2006-04-02T08:42:34Z")
Mr. DustyButt… There’s a lawyer for you on line one. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/38 "2006-04-02T14:47:46Z")
DJ Eye Kin Spehl ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/39 "2006-04-02T22:21:37Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > What, no umlauts? > > MC MXCIX I was attempting to construct the Latin sentence for “So tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999” but the verb conjugation made my head a splode. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668/40 "2006-04-02T22:32:19Z")
MC Lackadaisical, or maybe Special El. Or, since I’ve been feeling a bit tired lately, Mixmaster Comfortable Chair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-hip-hop-name-be/350668.md?page=3)