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Aubrey Drake Graham wisely chose his middle name over his first one when he switched from acting on Degrassi to rapping.

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Donald Glover gained popularity as a comedian and actor on the sitcom Community but decided to begin a rap career in 2010. He resorted to the Wu-Tang name generator in order to come up with a stage name and got Childish Gambino after typing his birth name in.

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Born André Benjamin, 3 Stacks went by the rap name Dre for most of his OutKast career. But when Dr. Dre began to resurge in popularity during the late 90’s, due in large part to 2001 and The Slim Shady LP, he switched it to the futuristic André 3000 to avoid confusion.

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“Soo woo” is a call associated with the Bloods gang which Wayne is affiliated with.

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Lindsay Lohan is another one of Eminem’s frequent targets. The Britney/Lohan fantasies of these bars were most likely inspired by Slim’s “Same Song & Dance” where he fantasized about kidnapping and raping these two pop stars.

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Luckily Webby lives in a relatively tolerant age where it is possible to make it in the rap game if you have good lyrics, even if you are extremely white in a predominately black genre.

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Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster at Hogwarts, and Web feels like the “headmaster” or leader of the rap game.

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Unsigned Hype is a section in The Source magazines dedicated to unsigned rappers in the underground that are building a buzz for themselves but don’t have a record deal. Web never actually appeared in the Unsigned Hype column, but he definitely fits the profile with his growing fanbase and internet buzz.

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Shredder was the main antagonist of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But Webby – aka the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Rapper” – is able to defeat him because the Ninja Turtle’s rodent mentor Master Splinter taught him how to rap well.

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Lil Wayne (aka “Weezy”) often refers to himself as an alien or martian because his skills are out of this world. Webby makes this comparison because he is literally out of this world and floating in outer space.

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