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Posted by: Mart!n May 9 2020, 12:42 PM

I've seen a lot of artists lately beginning with Lil', they seem to be sprouting a lot of new artists beginning with Lil', got me thinking the other day of others.

Lil' Baby
Lil' Nas

etc etc etc

Anymore...

Posted by: WhoOdyssey May 9 2020, 12:44 PM

You've only just noticed this in the last 20+ years?

Posted by: Klumzeased* May 9 2020, 12:46 PM

Lil Wayne is the original! I wonder how many will change their name in a few years time

I also find it confusing we have Lil Baby and DaBaby, why do you want to be baby so much???

Posted by: Liam.k. May 9 2020, 12:47 PM

Didn't we have a poll to decide our favourite 'Lil' artist a year or so back?

Posted by: Robbie May 9 2020, 12:50 PM

Lil Louis. Had a number 2 hit with 'French Kiss' in 1989. It was featured on the Top Of The Pops edition from 1989 that was shown last night on BBC4.

Posted by: N-S May 9 2020, 12:53 PM

Given that rap artists usually have big egos or pretend so in their music, it's a but suprising that there are more artists using Lil' in their monikers than Big.

Posted by: Infludexton* May 9 2020, 12:54 PM

Let’s give Lil Dicky some love

Posted by: Mart!n May 9 2020, 12:55 PM

I remember Lil Louis was probably the first artist using Lil, now it seems to have developed to a higher level of artists using that term.

Posted by: Bré May 9 2020, 12:59 PM

The only 'Lil' artist I know of who ended up removing it from their name was (Lil) Bow Wow It's hard to imagine many of their names not sounding weird without the Lil

'Baby' is a very overused word in rap names too, those are the two biggest of course but there are a ton more moderately popular Baby X / X Baby rappers around at the moment.

Posted by: T Boy May 9 2020, 01:09 PM

It’s sad I know but if see an artist that starts with ‘Lil’ I always know their music is not for me.

I believe Lil Toenail is supposed to be a thing.

Posted by: Rush May 9 2020, 01:11 PM

That's the one I thought of too! One other is Lil Boosie (who charted in the US a few times in 2006-2008, including as a feature on Webbie's top 10 hit 'Independent'), who later changed his name to Boosie Badazz, but that's pretty low profile (although apparently he had a #3 album in the US in 2015 post-name change).

There's also Young Jeezy becoming Jeezy, in similar words.

Posted by: Mart!n May 9 2020, 01:13 PM

Lil' Durk a new one on me, just imagine an artist called Durk without Lil'

Posted by: Bré May 9 2020, 01:15 PM

Oh yes I did know about Boosie Badazz as well! (Though I don't think I have ever heard a song by him so he's not an artist I think about much).

I think a lot of the Lil artists are so named because they're short which isn't something that necessarily goes away with age. Young X rappers on the other hand it does seem to make less sense to keep the name in the long run (although again I can't immediately think of any examples of such artists changing their name other than Jeezy, I suppose hip-hop as a genre is still relatively young as a whole).

Posted by: LewisGT May 9 2020, 01:18 PM

One who wasn't a rapper:

Lil' Chris (RIP)

Posted by: Euphorique May 9 2020, 01:21 PM

I only stan Lil' Kim. Y'all can have the rest

Posted by: awardinary May 9 2020, 01:23 PM

We did and here it is.

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=230710

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn May 9 2020, 01:40 PM

I generally hate this, and Lil' Baby has to be the absolute worst.

Posted by: Tangela May 9 2020, 02:27 PM

Who was the first Lil to get to number 1... Lily Allen?

Posted by: coi May 9 2020, 02:32 PM

The first one as a lead artist (if it counts! Otherwise it would be Lil Dicky), although Lil Kim and Lil Jon had number ones before that as featured artists!

Posted by: LewisGT May 9 2020, 02:43 PM

And Lil Wayne before Dicky.

Posted by: coi May 9 2020, 02:52 PM

Yes, although I deliberately left him out because he's another featured artist that comes after Lily Allen.

Posted by: mdh May 9 2020, 02:54 PM

Lil Kim is probably the first to get big in the UK.

Posted by: vibe May 9 2020, 02:56 PM

Lil Mo

Posted by: Liam.k. May 9 2020, 03:34 PM

Following from today's news, does Little Richard count as the first?

Posted by: Suedehead2 May 9 2020, 08:04 PM

The original Lil Dicky

Posted by: Liam.k. May 9 2020, 08:11 PM