Strange Music: Bizarre Hollywood Crossovers Into Hip Hop
Not every actor-turned-rapper moment works.
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Strange Music: Bizarre Hollywood Crossovers Into Hip Hop - Amanda Bynes may have declared that her Twitter account was hacked, but the world already saw her threaten us with an Interscope album (she said the label offered her a deal, and she may take them up on it). Now, Chinga Chang Records, which boasts Kool G Rap as a signee, wants to make it a bidding war. "This isn't just a gimmick," the CEO said, claiming the actress is "more gangster than Drake." We (almost) do want to hear what her ratchetly awesome diss records would sound like, but first, click to see the most awkward of moments that've happened when Hollywood dips its toe in hip hop's pool. (Photo: Splash News)
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Joaquin Phoenix - Widely considered a mental breakdown, Walk the Line star Joaquin Phoenix spent two years as an aspiring rapper. Turns out it was for a mockumentary, I'm Still Here, that featured master actor-rapper, Diddy. Phoenix said he had been taking acting too seriously and that the faux rap career was "so liberating." (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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James Franco - Pineapple Express and Rise of the Planet of the Apes star James Franco is on the Skrillex produced soundtrack to Spring Breakers (Gucci Mane's Hollywood debut). Franco's on the soundtrack because, if you didn't see it, he plays a gangsta rapper of sorts. Apparently he's responsibe for developing the character and he brought his inspiration, a rapper named Dangeruss, on set with him, sparking a real-life beef with another rapper, Riff Raff, who thought that he should have gotten the credit for the character. (Photo: Maurizio Marucci, PacificCoastNews.com)
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Mr. T - If ever you wanted to see a wrestler in camouflage shorts and an abundance of gold chains rapping about how to treat your mother, you can look to The A-Team's Mr. T. In 1984 he released a children's rap EP, Mr. T's Commandments, and a motivational video, Be Somebody... Or Be Somebody's Fool! via Columbia Records and MCA, respectively. The EP includes the cut "Treat Your Mother Right" and both projects feature then aspiring rapper Ice-T, of course! (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)
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Anne Hathaway - Anne Hathaway was so discombobulated by all of the lights, camera and action that was following her surrounding the release of 2012's The Dark Knight Rises that she wrote a rap about it. David Letterman, host of his own Late Show, convinced her to perform it on TV. She said it was written in the style of Lil Wayne. "Yo, I'm a paparazzi/I don't play no yahtzee/I go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop/my camera's up your crotch," she spit, among other lines, in a decidedly gruff voice. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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