12.20.2009

Before They Were Stars

"Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey"


So I found a bunch of hip hop/r&b artists pictures before they were big. Some of them are nice, some of them are awful, but everyone had their bad image phase.


1) Beyonce


What makes me particularly angry is the fact that I don't remember a girl looking like this in my high school

2) Diddy


Diddy was in the Math Club?

3) Lil Wayne


What the fuck is up with his hair.. It is like the pre Soul Glo treatment… May I remind you by the time Lil Wayne was whatever age this is, he was with Cash Money so why does dude look like he doesn’t have $2?

4) 50 Cent


CUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

5) Missy Elliot


I don't know where to start..

Looks like Queen Latifah and Whoopi Goldberg spawned an offspring.


6) Olivia (of G-Unit fame)

What in the blue hell is wrong with her eyebrows? Looks like she used the "^" character on the keyboard as a stencil.

7) Flavor Flav


How do you go from a normal looking Gary Coleman look-a-like to whatever Flav is today?

8) Fat Joe


Overweight Joseph should have hit the Stairmaster a long time ago. By the way does it look like his jacket is way too small? I mean dude would rip the coat in half if he tried to zip that shit.

9) Big Pun




Come to find out Big Pun wasn't always Big.. Fat Joe must of made him that way.. Besides the fact he has a unibrow, dude looks stylish for the day.

Maybe Al B. Sure! switched bodies with him?

10) Rihanna

One word... adorable.

11) Jay-Z


The first picture looks perfectly normal.. But in the second picture is that aluminum foil in his mouth?


12) Timbaland & T.I.

To be fair to them House Party with Kid 'N' Play just came out

13) Alicia Keys

So wholesome

14) Busta Rhymes

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Got my hair in check.

15) Ashanti & Ciara

[Usher] Ain't nothing like Good Ol' Ghetto [/Usher]

Also to Ashanti a lil' waxing of the eyebrows would be cool.. Somewhere in between your eyebrows and Olivia's would be cool.

16) Chris Brown

The reason he is smiling is because he just beat up the woman photographer

17) Eminem

Barry Manilow called he wants his fan back.


18) Jermaine Dupri

The freaks come out at night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously how did this guy end up with Janet Jackson?


19) Ice Cube

That yearbook page has to be soaked with Jheri Curl juice.

Also, what is with the collar up? What is he the Compton version of Tubbs from Miami Vice?


20) Ryan Leslie

Yooooooooooooo I know he is smart but dude looks over the top nerdy.


21) Lil' Jon

WHATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

I'm Speech-less.. How does the king of crunk go from that to


22) My personal favorite QuestLove from the Roots

This guy must have come from his mother's womb with an afro, a beard and razor bumps.

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