Which Rap Name would you choose out of these 3 ?

7 years ago

Rap is not my venue - but when naming anything...if you have to explain the name or if your audience must 'understand' the purpose of the name...you may be over thinking it.

Best names are easy to remember and don't require a lot of thought to "get".

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Dan Riffle

7 years ago

The Yugo was an extremely crappy car. You may not want the comparisons. Something can be flaming and not always considered a good thing.

D-Verse, however, has no direct negative connotations that I can think of and seems marketable...to me, somebody who doesn't listen to rap.

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Oliver Rupčić

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

The Yugo was an extremely crappy car. You may not want the comparisons. Something can be flaming and not always considered a good thing.

D-Verse, however, has no direct negative connotations that I can think of and seems marketable...to me, somebody who doesn't listen to rap.

oh yeah Yugo the car is internationaly what people think of when they hear that word ? In germany ex-yugoslawians are called Jugos - english name for it is Yugo. Yugo the car doesnt exist anymore, I havent thought of it at all. Does it make most people think of the crappy car ?

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Dan Riffle

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Oliver Rupčić

oh yeah Yugo the car is internationaly what people think of when they hear that word ? In germany ex-yugoslawians are called Jugos - english name for it is Yugo. Yugo the car doesnt exist anymore, I havent thought of it at all. Does it make most people think of the crappy car ?

I've never heard an America refer to a person as a Yugo, but I still hear references to the crappy car. If your audience is American, I'd stay away. I think D-Verse is more interesting, anyway.

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Frank Donovan

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Oliver Rupči‡

oh yeah Yugo the car is internationaly what people think of when they hear that word ? In germany ex-yugoslawians are called Jugos - english name for it is Yugo. Yugo the car doesnt exist anymore, I havent thought of it at all. Does it make most people think of the crappy car ?

Don't underestimate the car's enduring legacy. Time magazine, in its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, labeled the Yugo as the Mona Lisa of bad cars, going on to elaborate:

" Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. Interestingly, in a car where "carpet" was listed as a standard feature, the Yugo had a rear-window defroster reportedly to keep your hands warm while you pushed it."

I'd go with D-Verse.

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lanfear63

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

Don't underestimate the car's enduring legacy. Time magazine, in its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, labeled the Yugo as the Mona Lisa of bad cars, going on to elaborate:

" Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. Interestingly, in a car where "carpet" was listed as a standard feature, the Yugo had a rear-window defroster reportedly to keep your hands warm while you pushed it."

I'd go with D-Verse.

That takes me back, after giving up on a 1960's Ford Estate, dreadfully underpowered, even when he put a reconditioned engine in.. My father bought a new Lada, another Crap Russian car. It truly was crap, but he took it upon himself to offload it onto his son in law and buy a more powerful one and then sold that and got an estate version.

Fortunately he eventually gave up this madness and got something more conventional.

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Oliver Rupčić

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

I've never heard an America refer to a person as a Yugo, but I still hear references to the crappy car. If your audience is American, I'd stay away. I think D-Verse is more interesting, anyway.

Its a Euro thing, especially German thing, Ex-Yugoslawians call themselves balkanci aka people from balkan but know what yugo is as it was our country.

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

Don't underestimate the car's enduring legacy. Time magazine, in its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, labeled the Yugo as the Mona Lisa of bad cars, going on to elaborate:

" Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. Interestingly, in a car where "carpet" was listed as a standard feature, the Yugo had a rear-window defroster reportedly to keep your hands warm while you pushed it."

I'd go with D-Verse.

hmm only argument left is that most rap listeners are younger and yugo car is something +40 year olds remember ? I just love how Yugo King fits my Label name that I aim for. Im totally not sure. Or be like I dont care thats not what it means to me. I gues I need some statistic or something to see if todays generation that listens to hiphop thinks of a shitty car when they hear Yugo.

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Dan Riffle

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Oliver Rupčić

Its a Euro thing, especially German thing, Ex-Yugoslawians call themselves balkanci aka people from balkan but know what yugo is as it was our country.

hmm only argument left is that most rap listeners are younger and yugo car is something +40 year olds remember ? I just love how Yugo King fits my Label name that I aim for. Im totally not sure. Or be like I dont care thats not what it means to me. I gues I need some statistic or something to see if todays generation that listens to hiphop thinks of a shitty car when they hear Yugo.

They'll learn all about it as soon as they Google your rap name. However, you know better than I how the name would go over in your neck of the world. If your gut says to go with Yugo, then You Go. (See what I did there?)

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Claude Whitacre

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

They'll learn all about it as soon as they Google your rap name. However, you know better than I how the name would go over in your neck of the world. If your gut says to go with Yugo, then You Go. (See what I did there?)

I for one...saw what you did.

You've been spending your days watching cartoons again, haven't you.

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Oliver Rupčić

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

They'll learn all about it as soon as they Google your rap name. However, you know better than I how the name would go over in your neck of the world. If your gut says to go with Yugo, then You Go. (See what I did there?)

well in germany and ex yugoslawia its understood what it means, but Im gonna rap in english too so... but I like it, gonna discuss it with my best friend and take it from there

for the yugo car negative conection, well I think most people forgot bout the yugo, since rap listeners are mostly male and younger then 40

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BigFrank

Banned 7 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

Don't underestimate the car's enduring legacy. Time magazine, in its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, labeled the Yugo as the Mona Lisa of bad cars, going on to elaborate:

I hope the AMC Gremlin and Pacer are on that list.

Frank