How (not) to become a rap star
January 21st, 2009 at 12:45 pm
This type of post isn’t normal fare for this blog, but something this sad and ridiculous all at the same time doesn’t happen very often.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, clearly, has at least some music talent. He played Johnny Cash, after all, in the 2005 movie “I Walk the Line.”
Still, it was a little bizarre when Pheonix announced he was quitting acting to become, of all things, a rapper. And, stranger yet, that his transition to rap superstardom would be chronicled for a documentary by Casey Affleck, brother to Mr. Jennifer Garner.
Here is a clip of a the heavy-on-beard, light-on-rap-talent star’s debut performance, which took place recently at a club in Vegas.
Caution: There might be swear words in the videos, but it’s really difficult to understand anything he’s saying. REALLY DIFFICULT.
And here is him falling from the stage (and grace). No, really.
I’m thinking this is all one terrible, and terribly funny, joke.