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Title: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: DJ_PK on September 28, 2005, 11:51:19 PM
Ok we have seen the thread about the worst performance by a hip hop artist in a movie, so who would be the best?

I'd say Mos Def in Monsters Ball and Ice Cube in Boyz N Tha Hood.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: BizzyR.I.P. on September 29, 2005, 12:17:51 AM
2Pac in Juice & Poetic Justice and  Ice Cube in Boyz N Tha Hood.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: JMan on September 29, 2005, 02:50:38 AM
definatley cube..
< Boyz in da hood
< Friday, Next Friday, Friday after next..
< All about the benjammins

id say cube is by far the best cross'over rapper / actor
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: GangstaBoogy on September 29, 2005, 03:05:40 AM
id say cube is by far the best cross'over rapper / actor

yessir! that movie when he played a panter/college stundent or whatever was the bizness too
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: PLANT on September 29, 2005, 04:23:30 AM
Ice Cube and Mos Def are easily the best actors/rappers, but I was impressed with Ludacris in "Crash".  He did a solid job in that movie.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Plumma25 on September 29, 2005, 04:28:36 AM
I'm going to go with Ice Cube followed closely by 2Pac.  Pac probably would have beat him if he had been in more movies.  I think acting is a place where you have to show your range and Ice Cube has pretty much done every genre and really has done a good job in it.  Comedy - Friday Movies, Drama - 3 Kings, Action - XXX, Horror - Anaconda.  Etc.

LL Cool J is an alright actor but doesn't seem to try anything different.  Usually plays the same type of role in all his movies.  Also, anybody ever realize the dude never dies in a movie.  I mean I think he's the only one to survive a Halloween movie.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Kill on September 29, 2005, 05:34:16 AM
Cube & Mos Def, yeah
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Throwback on September 29, 2005, 06:39:29 AM
mos def>all other rappers-turned-actors. he can actually act..
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Bomb-A® on September 29, 2005, 07:56:49 AM
i think yall r being biased towards cube....he doesnt come close to mos def.....but if will smith counts then he;s the best....ll cool j is good too

will smith > mos def > ll cool j > ice cube



peace
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Machiavelli on September 29, 2005, 08:03:50 AM
1.Will Smith
2.Ice Cube
3.Pac(he would of been a great actor if he was still alive)
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: makaveli11 on September 29, 2005, 08:10:59 AM
1.Will Smith
2.Ice Cube
3.Pac(he would of been a great actor if he was still alive)
^yea pac did a great job in juice and poetic justice. Ice cube was mad tight in boyz in da hood and will smith I feel he is one of the most natural talented rappers/actors. I will also add mos def to that list.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Kill on September 29, 2005, 08:34:02 AM
i see Will Smith as an actor trying to rap, rather than vice versa. He´s in another league IMO
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Throwback on September 29, 2005, 09:02:47 AM
i see Will Smith as an actor trying to rap, rather than vice versa. He´s in another league IMO
same. but then again. he used to rap before his acting things right?
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Don Jacob on September 29, 2005, 11:06:24 AM
whoever said ice cube is an overrated actor is on something....he's done some crap like "are we there yet" but he can definately bring the drama.



as far as best rapper/actor goes.....i think i got to go with Pac. Mos Def overacts, ice cube you can catch him slippin, will smith gets close some times but comes off corny when he's emotional, but i dunno pac....it just looks real
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Okka on September 29, 2005, 11:11:25 AM
Ice Cube is an great actor.
Tray Deee was tight in "Tha Eastsidaz".
Dre wasn't so bad in "Training Day", he can act.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: ac1386 on September 29, 2005, 12:24:26 PM
in my opinion you guys are overrating ice cube a little bit. he is a good actor with a shit load of charisma, but if you notice even though hes in all types movies, hes mostly give or take the same character. hes the likeable, hard, not quite thug but almost, with a dry sense of humor.

will smith is one of the better actors in hollywood, dude steals scenes like its his job and he can go from funny to serious at the stop of a dime. if you ever watched fresh prince when they would get serious, he gets emotional better then just about anyone in the biz.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Machiavelli on September 29, 2005, 12:42:34 PM
i see Will Smith as an actor trying to rap, rather than vice versa. He´s in another league IMO

Will started to rap before he was an actor....

Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: mrceo on September 29, 2005, 05:03:33 PM
i see Will Smith as an actor trying to rap, rather than vice versa. He´s in another league IMO
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: mrceo on September 29, 2005, 05:05:00 PM
I dont know if its gay for actually seeing this movie but Mos Def did a great job in "Carmen: A Hip Hopera"
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Javier on September 29, 2005, 05:22:06 PM
Ice T does a really good job in his Law And Order Show
Luda in Crash
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: westkoastanostra on September 29, 2005, 06:33:46 PM
i'ma go with will smith....he was a rapper first and this year released  another rap album....
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: $do11a biLL$ on September 29, 2005, 07:04:14 PM
Mos Def in Monsters Ball was the best rapper role, but the best rapper in a movie is definetly Ice Cube.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: dray on September 30, 2005, 08:11:28 AM
tupac in juice
ice cube in boyz n the hood
cam'ron in paid in full
mos def in monster's ball & that hbo movie (can't think of the name of it)
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: red on September 30, 2005, 01:29:29 PM
Luda in Crash & LL in In Too Deep.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: Maniac Marxxx on October 01, 2005, 04:21:57 AM
Luda in Crash & LL in In Too Deep.

Ice cube in boyz in the hood comes before them but they were great in them movies. Also Mc ehit made me laugh as A-wax in menace 2 society, wouldnt say hes one of the best tho.
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: The Sorrow aka Maurice on October 01, 2005, 06:11:32 AM
ice cube in Boyz In The Hood and in Friday movies..
Title: Re: Best rapper in a movie
Post by: T-Dogg on October 01, 2005, 10:22:11 AM
I'll go with Mos Def and Cube. Cube's movies have gone both ways though - there's the ones where's he's good (Boyz n tha Hood, Friday, Three Kings, Barbershop) and then there's the ones where he (and everything else) sucks (Anaconda, Ghosts of Mars).

I've only seen one of Pac's movies, he was real good in it. Can't remember the flicks name though...