Big bad hollywood star Joaquin Phoenix starts rapping

[Jaydc555]

I wish that were true shallow.be he retired from acting to do this.its been confirmed he's releasing an album and its not a parody

[Chamillitary Click]

......

that dude is fucking nuts.

he was fucking Johnny Cash; he cant rap lmao!

[Jaydc555]

"your right.I am crazy.and guess what?I don't give a fuck"

[Chamillitary Click]

"your right.I am crazy.and guess what?I don't give a fuck"

Tupac from the movie "Juice"!

i am the winner!

but yeah; quote fits perfectly.

[Shallow]

I wish that were true shallow.be he retired from acting to do this.its been confirmed he's releasing an album and its not a parody

Then that really is retarded of him. He really has no chance of succeeding with this album. Even if he doesn't completely suck. Look at John Cena. Rap wasa huge passion for him and he even had guys in the underground saying he wasn't bad but once the album dropped nobody cared. Phoenix would literally have to record the greatest album of the decade just to get people to say he's not bad.

[Jaydc555]

Its true but he's probably got lots of money and its a vanity project

[west koasting]

I enjoy this better then busta rhymes im serious

[Shallow]

......

that dude is fucking nuts.

he was fucking Johnny Cash; he cant rap lmao!

Johnny cash can rap




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and

[Chamillitary Click]

......

that dude is fucking nuts.

he was fucking Johnny Cash; he cant rap lmao!

Johnny cash can rap




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and

since when has either of those been classified as rap? lmao.

[white Boy]

hes lookin like some sick ass blues dude, i think it would make more sense if he did a bluesy cashish album, i couldnt hear waht he was rapping but it couldnt be any good, and why isnt what johnny doing cosidered rap? cause of the coutnry sounding background, the vocals are straight rap, look up the lyrics, hes flowin his ass off

[Chamillitary Click]

hes lookin like some sick ass blues dude, i think it would make more sense if he did a bluesy cashish album, i couldnt hear waht he was rapping but it couldnt be any good, and why isnt what johnny doing cosidered rap? cause of the coutnry sounding background, the vocals are straight rap, look up the lyrics, hes flowin his ass off

go to iTunes & tell me what they label it as.

[white Boy]

hes lookin like some sick ass blues dude, i think it would make more sense if he did a bluesy cashish album, i couldnt hear waht he was rapping but it couldnt be any good, and why isnt what johnny doing cosidered rap? cause of the coutnry sounding background, the vocals are straight rap, look up the lyrics, hes flowin his ass off

go to iTunes & tell me what they label it as.

thats a dumb argument, genres are irrelevant, shallow might give us his its all rock speech, but just listen to it, are you really missing it, look beyond the voice or the music, hes not fully 'singing'

[Shallow]

hes lookin like some sick ass blues dude, i think it would make more sense if he did a bluesy cashish album, i couldnt hear waht he was rapping but it couldnt be any good, and why isnt what johnny doing cosidered rap? cause of the coutnry sounding background, the vocals are straight rap, look up the lyrics, hes flowin his ass off

go to iTunes & tell me what they label it as.

thats a dumb argument, genres are irrelevant, shallow might give us his its all rock speech, but just listen to it, are you really missing it, look beyond the voice or the music, hes not fully 'singing'

Nah, I was going to keep the it's all rock out of it.


Cham, I never said they were rap songs or should be classified as Hip Hop but if you take the vocal tracks of either I've Been Everywhere, or Devil Went Down to Georgia, added an echo effect and had Rick Rubin producer an 80s style beat they would fit right in on any 80s Def Jam album. Johnny Cash is rapping on those country tracks. Just like Charlie Daniels is rapping on the original Devil Went Down to Georgia 


or on Uneasy Rider '88




He's not singing. He is rhythmically speaking in rhyme. I'm not saying he's Rakim. I'm saying he's rapping. Just like Bob Dylan here;

and here

or Frank Zappa was here



or Bruce Springsteen was here

and later here

or Woodie Guthrie is here



and ofcourse Aerosmith was rapping here, later re-rapped by Run DMC




People never shut up about black music and how blacks created rock and evolved it, but no one will ever give credit to the white lyricists that helped evolve rapping long before Rakim or Nas ever touched a mic. They didn't invent the style but each one of those guys had a lot to do with influencing the black artists that modern rappers were influenced by.

[Jaydc555]

I completely agree with everything shallow has said

[UDollar A.K.A Nino]

Anyone get the feeling that this might be a joke that he is cooking up.. I mean all of a sudden he starts acting like he doesn't give a fuck, falls on the stage like a bum and the whole thing is being filmed by Casey Affleck for a documentary about his new "career".. It seems like there is something more about this whole thing, that we are not told.. Maybe they are doing a "Borat" kind of mocumentary, without letting the publick know. At least that's some of the speculation out there.