In 2001, following legal issues and wanting a "fresh start," as Complex shares, he changed his name to P. He used both names in his early releases, as Puffy on several early collab releases with his Bad Boy Records and Puff Daddy on his debut album No Way Out in 1997. He began as both Puffy, his childhood nickname, and Puff Daddy in the '90s, as Complex explains. The GRAMMY-winning rapper born Sean Jean Combshas given the world several names to call him over the years, with a somewhat confusing timeline, although he recently shared that he is fine being called any of his names. I didn't want to lose my name, so I abbreviated it to M.A." Lil' Mama, Remy Ma… it makes sense "It was originally Young Ma, but when a lot of other Mas started to come into the game, I had to change it. I had other rap names, but they weren’t working out," she told Glamour. "I made it up when I was younger-I had to be around 12 years old. Sometimes, you have to change your name because there's just too many of the same names out there, or so was the case for rapper Young M.A., who originally came onto the scene as Young Ma. While Lopez has since returned to using her original (birth) name, she changed her name legally after marrying Marc Anthony, she'll always be most affectionately referred to as J.Lo. So when the GRAMMY nominee decided to go by a nickname given to her by fans, she did so in a big way by releasing her second album under the same name, 2001's J.Lo. Whether you know her as Jennifer Lopezof just "Jenny From The Block," J.Lo is a triple-threat actress, singer and dancer whose talents and charisma have made her an international superstar. It’s all about thinking in new ways, tuning in 2 a new free-quency." Publications writing about him got a lot of headaches, reportedly, his music label had to send publications a floppy disk with the symbol because it could not be replicated, but for Prince it was, "an unpronounceable symbol whose meaning has not been identified. The name change game was never the same after late seven-time GRAMMY winner Prince, who became known as the symbols of the female and male gender combined in 1993. With fall comes change and in the spirit of embracing it, we've rounded some of the most iconic, humorous, necessary and life-changing name changes. Throughout the years many artists have come to be known by different titles, GRAMMY-winner Sinéad O'Connor is just the latest to go a different route with her name. From dropping letters in their names to full-on changing monikers, musical artists have gotten into different characters, stage personas or different phases of their careers with name changes.
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