What's with "Lil" rappers?
 

What's with rappers using "Lil" before their names. Does this come from somewhere (Scarface, probably?). Whatever the reason, it's lame.

From wiki:
Artists with the short form for little:
Lil' 1/2 Dead, US-american rapper
Lil Boosie, US-american rapper
Lil' Bow Wow (today only Bow Wow), US-american rapper
Lil' Brotha, US-american rapper
Lil' Caesar, US-american rapper
Lil' Cease, US-american rapper
Lil Chris, British rock-singer
Lil Cuete, US-american rapper
Lil' Flip, US-american rapper
Lil' Fizz, US-american rapper and actor
Lil' Jon, US-american music producer
Lil' Keke, US-american rapper
Lil' Kim, US-american rapper
Lil' Mama, US-american rapper
Lil' Mo, US-american rapper
Lil Rob, US-american rapper
Lil' Romeo (today only Romeo), US-american actor and rapper
Lil' Scrappy, US-american rapper
Lil' Wayne, US-american rapper
Lil Wyte, US-american rapper
Lil' Zane, US-american rapper

Lyrics on Demand has about 100 artists with Lil in their name.

It's because they cannot spell OR sing.

They all suck!

I'd be more concerned with the prevalence of "Young" rappers...

Where's wm lopez? This thread is worthless without his gifted insight.

In all fairness, Stevie Wonder started his career as "Little Stevie Wonder".

But not "Lil" Stevie, and he wasn't singing about Lil Ho's and Wee Bitches.

They can rap though...well some of them anyways.

Yeah, but it was over four decades ago.

:lol: Wasn't he 12 at the time? Not exactly a comparable situation.

Right...
 

because they cannot sing nor spell. A co-worker said it best while we were looking at the cover of the new XXL, "in the past, these guys would be the crazy homeless men you'd see walking down the street with red sweat pants and carrying toilet paper for no apparent reason. Now they're on the cover of magazines."

I'm more concerned about where all the "Ice"s and "Kool/Cool"s went to.

And with me it's the MCs and DJs.

Anyone esle wonder why this genre is still taken seriously by some music journalists?

I thought these were all child rappers as well.

most of them suck, i do think lil kim is a great female rapper and lil wayne & young buck are also decent


i say buck because alot of rappers also use young nowadays aswell

RAP: Retards Attempting Poetry

What exactly is the point of this other than to give the anti-rap DVD Talkers a place to say nothing they haven't said dozens of times before?

Hey, watch the thread-crapping, Albert.

Well, I was hoping someone would answer the question. I didn't know if was a reference from Scarface or something along those lines.

You know those rap dorks like their Scarface.

Anyone heard anything by Lil' Talent?

Beacuase they are little.

No, but I've heard they all have very lil' talent.

Not all of them.... LiL Wayne is quite exceptional

Because music journalists want to earn money from their stories, so they write about what's popular?