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Rappers In Movies

Postby Shadyluva » Nov 10th, '05, 01:19

EW Role Call: Rappers in movies
Ranking the 10 best performances
By Gary Susman
Entertainment Weekly


Tuesday, November 8, 2005; Posted: 3:41 p.m. EST (20:41 GMT)

(Entertainment Weekly) -- Maybe it's the facility with language, or the practice at telling tall tales. One way or another, a career as a rapper sure seems to prepare MCs for starring roles in movies that earn big box office bucks and-quite often-raves from critics.

In his autobiographical drama "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " (opening Wednesday), Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is the latest chart-topping rapper to make a bid for such crossover success. He even developed a unique Method-acting technique. To prepare for a role that required him to cry and display uncharacteristic vulnerability, he told EW, "I imagined failing."

The transition from pop star to movie star used to be a rough one. Before the hip-hop era, only a few top recording artists (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby) became successful screen stars, while most (Elvis Presley, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Prince, Bob Dylan, David Bowie) had mixed results at best.

That changed, however, after Mario Van Peebles cast Ice-T as a cop in "New Jack City" (1991) and John Singleton cast Ice Cube as a Los Angeles gangbanger in "Boyz N the Hood" (also '91). Soon, an ever-growing roster of rappers, including Will "Fresh Prince" Smith and Queen Latifah, delivered memorable performances that drew throngs to the multiplex. (Click here for some of the best.)

"Rappers are natural actors," director Rob Cohen told Entertainment Weekly in 2002. (He directed Ja Rule in "The Fast and the Furious" and Eve in "XXX.") "Between their videos and their own onstage theatricality, it's very easy to direct them once you explain the language of film."

Plus, many rappers may have the quality director Curtis Hanson saw in Eminem when he directed him in "8 Mile."

"What he had from the beginning is a natural charisma," Hanson told EW, "a thing that makes you interested in watching him and hearing what comes out of his mouth. As frustrating as it is to all the wannabe actors out there, that's God-given. You either have it or you don't."

50 Cent's first movie could put him in that club. In the meantime, here are the past performances you need to see-by 10 rappers who definitely have it.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ ... index.html
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Postby lyriks i got » Nov 15th, '05, 03:28

i dont understand why the wanna do movies

lucky them...dang u made ur money go to charities n keep ur family good


acting...i dont think its really a interest, to me another way to get money ( yea i know its a long hard process ya ya ya ...)

well only reason i understand is to display their "story" but if its like appearin on
films and being of the main actors (not the main one) then its just for money or nuthin
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Postby DJ Anarkist » Dec 28th, '05, 06:05

yeh word
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Postby SNaKe » Dec 28th, '05, 12:52

i think the best rapper/actor has to be 2Pac he's just the king...... :smoking:
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Postby Speech » Dec 28th, '05, 13:26

exactly...........T U P A C!!! :8)
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Postby Coccoa » Dec 28th, '05, 15:40

Actually...cinema is an art just like music. So from those 7 arts you cant pick a second one? I mean a man who makes music cant be an architect if he wants to? All he needs to do is feel a lil interrested and take classes about it and he can do it. Arts dont separate eachother. A musician can be an actor or a drawer or whatever he wants to. If he really wants to, he can do it. If he doesnt know the subject...well that's why schools are.
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