What kind of name is "Charlamagne Tha God"?

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Made-up and misspelled, mostly.

"He developed the stage name of Charlamagne, taken from his pseudonym as a drug dealer, "Charles," and created a new persona based on King Charlemagne, who ruled much of Western Europe as part of the Carolingian Empire in the late 700s and early 800s, whom he read about at night school. He added "Tha God" because it "sounded cool."" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlamagne_tha_God

[Sneederbunk]

2. A presumptuous one.

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5. Reminds me of the "Jerry the Great" Seinfeld episode...

[Talitha]

6. Or "The Donald"

[lame54]

7. Cedic the Entertainer

[Jamaal510]

19. Chance the Rapper

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Vlad the Impaler. Donald the Asscarrot.

[Celerity]

23. awwww

it will be oki

[Tipperary]

3. Stupid.

Obviously thinks he is God’s gift of some sort.

[Kali]

4. artistic stage name?

[Journeyman]

8. It's Charlamagne The God's name . . .

[Celerity]

24. +1

[Hekate]

9. What kind of name is Whoopi Goldberg?

All the world's a stage...

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15. Well the last name is jewish and the first name is a kind of cushion.

That's about all I can figure.

[4887123]

10. I think

I think it's tasteless and immature to try to capitalize on someone else's name. We should all sink or swim on our own merits.

Sincerely,

Elvis Costello

[lunatica]

11. LOL!

Welcome to DU.

[4887123]

12. Thank you

Thanks for the welcome.

[dameatball]

14. Imagine stealing Lou Costello's name just to help your own career...and that other guy's name also.

[Brainfodder]

13. Absurd stage name designed to repulse but curious?

Any worse than PUBLIC ENEMY? Naughty By Nature?

"We're tough and will hurt you if you fuck with us" is too long and on the nose?

[Shermann]

16. A real god would have no need to advertise his godliness

I've probably already put more thought into the name than he did.

Of course he does have us talking about it, so maybe it isn't so thoughtless after all?

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17. Wonder who advised Biden to interview with this mook?

[flotsam]

18. Lenard Larry McKelvey (born June 29, 1978), known professionally as Charlamagne tha God...N/T

He picked it-don't blame mom and dad...

[Nature Man]

20. a stage name

like The Three Stooges.

[Hortensis]

22. I like it. Easy to remember, and I need help these days.

And it makes a terrific reference to history that is not dead. How many people who haven't thought about it since liberation from high school and/or college now know who Charlemagne was?

[Celerity]

25. +1

[JHB]

26. One that ticks Donald off that he didn't think to use it first?

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27. Well, at least he doesn't call himself "Kid Charlamagne"

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28. Great song!