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You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You - Named after a Notorious B.I.G. song, this Spike Lee-produced movie, slated to premiere September 2011, will feature several OG hip-hop luminaries, including Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane and Ed Lover.(Photo: Blackfoot Films)

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Trey Songz - Songz will make his big-screen acting debut as the male lead inThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D. This film, set to release in late 2012, is the sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic about a group of teens who run into a family of cannibals in Texas. (Photo Credit: New Line Cinema)

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Mos Def - Mos Def gives an under-par performance in a movie about a bug infestation on a tropical locale in Island of the Dead (2000).(Photo Credit: Ironworks Productions)

Photo By Photo Credit: Ironworks Productions

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Aaliyah - With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Aaliyah plays an evil vampire in Queen of the Damned (2002).(Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

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Sticky Fingaz - Sticky Fingaz plays a short-lived gang member in Leprechaun: Back 2 the Hood (2003).(Photo Credit: Lions Gate Films)

Photo By Photo Credit: Lions Gate Films

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Method Man - Method Man has a small role in the 2005 horror film Venom.(Photo Credit: Miramax)

Photo By Photo Credit: Miramax

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Rah Digga - Rah Digga plays Maggie, a family nanny, in the 2001 horror film Thir13en Ghosts.(Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

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LL Cool J - In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (2008), the seventh installment of the franchise, LL plays an unimpressive security guard.(Photo Credit: Dimension Films)

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Redman - Rapper Redman falls victim to Chucky and his bride in Child’s Play 5: Seed of Chucky (2004).(Photo Credit: Rogue Pictures)

Photo By Photo Credit: Rogue Pictures

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Ice-T - Ice-T plays a violent pimp in the fifth installment of the Leprechaun series, Leprechaun in the Hood.(Photo Credit: Trimark Pictures)

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Kelly Rowland - Kelly Rowland fights hard to be a survivor as one of the female leads in Freddy vs. Jason (2003).(Photo Credit: New Line Cinema)

Photo By Photo Credit: New Line Cinema

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Ice Cube - Ice Cube plays an imprisoned human trying to save Martian police officers from alien appropriation in Ghosts of Mars (2001).(Photo Credit: Screen Gems)

Photo By Photo Credit: Screen Gems

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Busta Rhymes - Bussa Buss is one of the few survivors in Halloween: Resurrection (2002).(Photo Credit: Dimension Films)

Photo By Photo Credit: Dimension Films

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DMX - DMX plays a monster masher in the straight-to-DVD film The Bleeding (2009).(Photo Credit: Iron Bull Films)

Photo By Photo Credit: Iron Bull Films

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Coolio - Coolio plays a blood-sucker after he is infused with vampire blood in Dracula 3000: Infinite Darkness (2004).(Photo Credit: Film Afrika Worldwide)

Photo By Photo Credit: Film Afrika Worldwide

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Brandy   - Brandy stars in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), the sequel to the teen scream flick I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).(Photo Credit: Mandalay Entertainment)