Artists who have Changed Their Names

1.Rapper Saucekid officially changes name to ‘Sinzu SMG: Saucekid, the rapper that stormed the music industry with I CAN’T FEEL  MY FACE, and many other songs still electrifying radios up till date, has anounced on Twitter some days ago that he has officially dropped the name we all know him by – Saucekid, for a new Alias ‘Sinzu SMG’.
The bone of contention has been how fans will react to this changing of an already established name, which has so much been engraved into the hearts of both young and old. No word has been heard from him further on his reasons for doing that, but your guess is as good as mine. Check out the twitter declaration.

2.Chip Tha Ripper Signs With CAA; Changes Names To King Chip:Cleveland native and Kid Cudi protege Chip Tha Ripper has officially signed with one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and changed his name to King Chip.
Chip tweeted , “Had to make it official and call the CAA my home – special thank you to Cara Lewis,@cherylpags & everyone else at the CAA. #TEAMCARA #CAA.”
Chip will join a home that also includes Kanye West who signed with the agency in July.
In addition to his signing, Chip also announced his name change: “There has never been any rap artist to get as much paper as me and or sell as many units as me without ever having a company backing. I am King Chip. Actually born in the ghetto slums of east Cleveland, Ohio.”
“Rest in Peace my mentor & former King Hawk,” he continued. “His death made me….King Chip. My birth name is Charles Jawanzaa Worth. Jawanzaa is Swahili and it means ‘great leader and great warrior’. Look it up. I am King Chip,” he added.
King Chip’s last project was his January-released Tell Ya Friends mixtape. He was most recently featured on “Busta Ass N*ggas” with Bun B from Hit-Boy’s HITstory mixtape which dropped on Tuesday (August 7).

3.Just days after Snoop Dogg revealed he'll now go by the reggae moniker, Snoop Lion, Lily Allen is getting in on the act.
The English songbird has announced plans to change her professional alias back to her given name of Lily Rose Cooper as she returns to the studio to begin work on a new album.
But Allen Cooper and Snoop (real name Calvin Broadus) aren't the only entertainers who have changed their stage names. E! Online runs down five other big-name artists who've altered or otherwise dropped their more famous appellations.
Snoop Dogg to go by Snoop Lion as he launches new reggae career

4.You Don't Know Diddy: Rap mogul Sean Combs has used a host of aliases throughout his career. In 1997 upon making his rap debut, he went by Puff Daddy, then changed it to P. Diddy in 2001 following a his acquittal on weapons charges stemming from a melee at a Manhattan club. Four years later, he was at it again, this time shortening things to Diddy. While the last moniker has appeared to stick, the hip-hopster couldn't resist last year switching—for one week only—to a new epithet, Swag , to celebrate his surviving a nasty bout of the flu. Separately, Combs has also deployed his first and middle names, Sean John, for his highly successful clothing empire.

5.Bye-Bye Cat Stevens, Hello Yusuf Islam: Perhaps the most famous name change in all of pop history, the British-born singer-songwriter Steven Georgiou adopted the stage moniker Cat Stevens in the mid-'60s as a teenager before hitting it big as one of the world's most renowned musicians with such hits like "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train." A near-death experience and a spiritual awakening led Stevens to convert to Islam in 1977, and a year later he took the name Yusuf Islam, which he's kept to this day.

6. Forget Mos Def, It's Yasiin Bey: Diddy and Snoop are not the only MCs to ditch their better-known handles. Rapper-actor Mos Def, who converted to Islam in his teens, retired  his pseudonym this year in favor of Yasiin Bey, a reference to the 36th verse of the Quran.
Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Mos Def…which rapper is changing his name?!