What should I do about my teenage son....advice needed please!!!!?

Hello, my son is 18 years old. Ever since he was able to talk he's dreamed of becoming a famous rapper. His idol is Eminem and he's been working on writing rap songs for about 8 years now.





He recently informed me and my wife that he was going to move to LA to finally fulfill his dream of becoming an internationally known rapper. But, he said before he does that, he is going to make it official by legally changing his name. You see, he beleives that his current name, the name my wife and I gave him, isn't ';gansta'; enough and that he needs a more tough-sounding name if he's ever going to be taken seriously in the rap community.





His name now is Erwin Q. McToolmeister. But he said that on Monday, he's going down to city hall and he's going to legally change it to Hercules J. Murder. I said that that name is completely ridiculous and suggested he try another name like maybe L.L. Tool-Jay, or something like that, but he has his heart set on Hercules J. Murder. My wife and I are just devastated. What should we do about this?What should I do about my teenage son....advice needed please!!!!?
Let him go and dance naked in the living room knowing the house is now yours and you no longer have to run to the bedroom to bump uglies.





And change the locks on the door. When he fails and returns home hand him bus fare and a map to the nearest shelter. That'll give him a dose of reality.What should I do about my teenage son....advice needed please!!!!?
i know that whenever im going to do something stupid and my parents are trying to convince me not to do it i want to do it more. so if i were you i would tell him its fine he wants to change his name for his career, but ask him to not do it legally. Dont many artists just use a fake name, but keep their original name?
Idk how it is in the USA but here, when you want to completely change your name, you need to have a LOT of cash.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it too much now....let him live his life...hopefully eventually he will become more mature and change it,
I got a good gangsta name for your son! He should call himself Troll Junior!
I had high hopes upon becoming a famous rapper, too. I went to all of the local hip hop clubs and unleashed my rap fury night after night. Eventually I knew it was time to move beyond the Philadelphia scene, because, like young Erwin, I knew that Southern California was the place where I could make it big. I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said ';Fresh';, and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought man forget it, yo home to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie 'yo homes smell ya later'. Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air.