After being asked numerous times why he chose to change his stage name from Tity Boi to 2 Chainz, 2 Chainz finally chose to explain the reason behind the name change during his interview on Shade 45 late last month.
Aside from signifying his growth as an artist 2 Chainz also spoke on his new stage name being more “family friendly.”
“I’ve been doing a lot of media runs up in New York lately promoting my CD T.R.U. Realigion and every single interview I do they like, ‘What’s up with the name change?’ So this is the universal answer,” 2 Chainz explained. “I just came up with it yesterday over a big bowl of kush for breakfast. I thought of it yesterday morning, check it out. I go by Tity Boi, let me run this to ya’ll, I’m one half of Playaz Circle. I did a song called ‘Duffle Bag Boyz’ in ’07 with Lil Weezy. I was signed to DTP/Def Jam and all that. And so people ask me where the 2 Chainz came from I tell them I always talk about jewelry and I always been saying 2 Chainz in a lot of my songs. But lately like the last year or so I’ve been saying it in introducing my records like ‘2 Chainz!’ and kinda making it family friendly. However you wanna say it.”
2 Chainz went on to explain that the name 2 Chainz also signified his second chance in music after being a part of Playaz Circle and being signed to DTP/Def Jam.
“I started noticing a change early in the year when I was going to the mall and young ladies would be yelling ‘2 Chainz’ or whatever. So my answer is when I did ‘Duffle Bag Boyz’ in ’07 that was like my first look. Now this right here would be my second chance,” said 2 Chainz. “You know like 2 Chainz, second chance. So I thought that that would have a little more substance.”
2 Chainz’ mixtape T.R.U. Realigion was released November of last year and featured appearances from Meek Mill, Big Sean, and more.
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In other words he thought…How can I teach even younger kids how to deal drugs?
lmao
both names are equally as bad as the music he puts out.
i can’t believe as a kid i used to look up to rappers, smh
i can’t believe as a kid i used to look up to rappers, smh…..
This interview did not really answer the question. Kind of a pathetic answer if you ask me. But I do like the name change… I know when his name was Tity Boy, I was thinking, wtf is this dude thinking. 2 Chainz is more presentable. It sounds cooler and it doesn’t make you think weird shit when you hear names like Tity Boy.
exactly
he should explain why he called himself tity boi in the first place
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But is your music family friendly dickhead?
lets be real , he changed his name because TITY BOY sounded gay as fuck
hahahha
2 chaaaaiiiinnnzzzzz
Lol, his verse on the Freddie Gibbs mixtape was pretty beast though
cutting hair changing names. bitch ass niggas. ima come out with a rap name shit face. no pun intended im a white guy. and ima be in movies and on shows and they gonna say here comes shit face
there was an mc named shorty shitstain in the 90’s.
like if you were referring to titties, wouldnt there be two t’s in titty boi?
like can this nigga not spell? and why would he spell boi all gay like that?? i guess he did have himself taking a piss on the cover of his mixtape
do you think Big Boi from Outkast’s name is gay too?
His name was Tity Boi cuz dat was his family nickname as a kid. You know like your lil cousin Pookie. People didnt take Tity Boi serious so now its 2 chainzzzzzz
I really did wonder a lot what possessed him to come up with the name “Tity Boi”. His family gave it to him? He have man boobs as a kid or sumn? I like the dude though. Just a bizarre name.
This dude wouldn’t be shit if it wasn’t for Wayne’s grace on Duffle Bad Boy. More proof that YMCMB is the future of hip hop.
He wants to be more family friendly, yet in the same article he talks about creating his ‘family friendly’ name over a ‘bowl of kush for breakfast’
Nice one tity boi, im sure the parents will be queuing up to buy a copy of what im sure will be an awful album for their kids.
retard.
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A very articulate young Negro, this Tity Boi Chainz.
The New Frederick Douglass!
2chainz blows cock
“photos of me posin like jodeci// its poetry, me and two girls man you know its like floetry// i tell them ho’s goodnight, go to sleep, im 40 deep// 40 days 40 nights, sippin dirty sprite// married to the game thats my prototype, my photo white my polo white// white rims, lookin like casper// im the man bitch you can be the man after// i provide jobs, like a contractor, one button make the car back up// see im a syrup-sippin animal, MC canibal, all i spit is gasolean, all my verses flamable”
for all you idiots thinking 2 chains is not a good rapper (90% of whom probably dick ride weezy), youve probably never even listened to him on anything besides duffle bag boy, go fuck yourself..
man that’s garbage down south crap and hes wack shut yo punk ass up
His name was tity boy because he sucked on he was breast fed longer than the rest of his friends. Ludacris has explained that before..
he realized hes an ass man not a tity boy
WHYERD
tity boy was also a gay ass name LOL
where’s dolla boi?
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“You know like 2 Chainz, second chance. So I thought that that would have a little more substance.”
Anything other than “Titty Boy” where “Titty” and “Boy” are both spelled wrong has more substance
Just wanted to drop the gay ass tity BS and have a tough stage name should have chose the name first
Very informative. Thank you.
Just wondering why he says he was born and raised in College Park GAbut he was really born and raised in Lagrange GA