Everyone should get over to Cracked.com and check out The 25 Worst Rapper Names of All Time. They’ve got everyone from Del tha Funkee Homosapien to Eminem. But even though they’ve pretty much got everyone covered, I thought I’d share a few of my honorable mentions that were left off the list.

Q-Tip

Who names themselves after a cotton swab brand? It’s hard not to think of earwax buildup. Q, you look like you could kill someone on your album cover, wouldn’t something like Bonecrusher be more appropriate? You know that wasn’t taken when you started out!

50 cent

Oh, 50, you’ve been shot how many times and lived? You’re holding a stack of 20s in that photo up there, and you still think that you’re only worth the price of a sticky hand? Modesty ain’t your thang. We know you got confidence, hun and would no doubt win in a fight against Chamillionaire, but at least he doesn’t sound cheap. Oh, wait, he’s on this list too, damn.

Puff Daddy/Puffy/P. Diddy/Diddy

This name makes me think about allergic reactions, petticoats and Puff the Magic Dragon. But at least dragons are gangstas right?

 Posted by Crystal

If you didn’t hate Usher already, read the first part of his MTV interview where he claims to be responsible for the success of Omarion, Chris Brown and Ne-Yo.  OK, so he doesn’t actually name them but it’s obvious who he’s talking about.

You can’t come around here and think that you’re really starting the game. Understand, when I came up in the game and I found a trail, I was cool.  Bobby Brown went this way, Michael Jackson went this way, Marvin Gaye, he created his little profile and he held to it. I didn’t step on those toes. What I did was find a way and my thing and created my thing. Now you have my thing being built. So I look up, and I’m like, ‘OK, I see you all. I see you all in the videos. I see you moving, I get it,’ but pay the respect, man.

Yes Usher, just like Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, you’ve become a legend in your own skin. Bow down Chris Brown! And be sure to thank Usher at the end of each day for your success, but preferably in your next single.

 Posted by Crystal Olvera

Everyone remembers those “wth?” moments in their lives. It mostly happens when they discover something that completely defies all logic. I had one last week when I found this…

a Notorious B.I.G. 5-button set at the Hot Topic in Brownsville.

I tried to make sense of this finding, but all I could do was stand there and stare at the rare piece of merchandise. It was like finding a poncho at Victoria’s Secret. No, it was like finding a chainsaw at Bed Bath & Beyond. You get the point. Since when is Biggie Smalls goth, emo or punk? The buttons seemed out of place next to the black and white skull arm warmers and the Slipknot chain wallet.

I came up with a few possible reasons that may have lead this piece of hip hop paraphernalia into this department store of darkness.

1) When they ordered the merchandise they thought they were ordering buttons with images from that Alfred Hitchcock movie, “Notorious,” which is pretty goth.

2) Hot Topic adopted the punk rock ideal of being anti- everything. So by not being punk rock the store was totally being punk rock.

3) Same scenario as #1 only with “The Notorious Bettie Page” movie.

4) Biggie is black and that’s goth.

What do you think?

Posted by Crystal