Chris Rozoff writes:

I think all the new rap groups don't pay enough hommage to our field anymore.  
I mean, common, Ludicrus, 50 cent, Nelly, Jay-Z, etc?...just no hommage

Back in the day, it was:

Ice-T (ice thermodynamics)
EPMD - Eliassen-Palm Meridional Dynamics
LL Cool J - Low-level Jets (which are "cool" for convective activity)
Run-DMC - Obviously hommage to deep, moist convection
2Pac - Obviously cared about both hurricane/typhoon basins in the Pacific

All the new kids have to do is look back at their roots:
Ja-Rule Charney, L Fly Richardson, Mix-master Ross-B, etc.
	

Matt Rogers writes:

Such behavior is reprehensible at best, and at worst, threatens to undermine 
the seminal research performed by these performers by calling undue attention 
to their admittedly impressive skills with a mic.  As an example, I'll point 
out the influential body of works of Hip-Hop Professor Eric Wright, whose many 
works on desert hydrology and the magnitude of the evaporative processes 
therein are overshadowed by his work with NWA, and only tangentially 
remembered in his moniker 'Eazy-E', which really referred to the preferential 
evaporation processes he devoted his life's studies to.

	

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