Camo Hatt or maybe not.....
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So i just got finished running thru the first season of Living Single which is Queen Latifah's vehicle.
And I wondered who in the current generation of MC's will transcend their pocket and go on to doin movies/tv and shit.
LL has that cop show. Luda, I think was guesting in some films(Black dude amongst the main character for street cred). There's always the straight to "video"(probably streaming) sector where you see Pras & them shooting guns. I just saw Marky Mark in Shooter...he dont really count though. Common is on some cowboy era shit. Will is Will.
Who in this current (lets say 2000-2014) era of Hip Hop artists will catch the "i can get other money" bug, and expand their game 15 years from now?
Who do u think has a brand or is developing their brand for the other level?
Drake can return to that game.
Nikki seems like she's gonna Madonna herself.
This isnt about who u like....just about positioning and if the game is still fertile enuff to produce cats that can proceed.
And I dont focus on current Rap anymore to have a clear opinion.
Why hasnt Kanye dabbled?
And I wondered who in the current generation of MC's will transcend their pocket and go on to doin movies/tv and shit.
LL has that cop show. Luda, I think was guesting in some films(Black dude amongst the main character for street cred). There's always the straight to "video"(probably streaming) sector where you see Pras & them shooting guns. I just saw Marky Mark in Shooter...he dont really count though. Common is on some cowboy era shit. Will is Will.
Who in this current (lets say 2000-2014) era of Hip Hop artists will catch the "i can get other money" bug, and expand their game 15 years from now?
Who do u think has a brand or is developing their brand for the other level?
Drake can return to that game.
Nikki seems like she's gonna Madonna herself.
This isnt about who u like....just about positioning and if the game is still fertile enuff to produce cats that can proceed.
And I dont focus on current Rap anymore to have a clear opinion.
Why hasnt Kanye dabbled?
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Kanye's a prick and probably wouldn't take direction. Who would cast him for anything other than a cameo? Tell him to do somethin and he talmbout "YO, LEMME BE GREAT!"
I imagine that West got alot of money without goin the acting route.
I also imagine alot of cats from the 80s who transitioned did so to expand their paper/brand.
Kayne seems like he's already upper echelon.
What random artist is gonna be on some tv show in 15 years and your gonna say.." I remember they were killin it for long minute on the mic"?
Good call on TI.
Judging by his videos, Starlito seems to have a better grasp than most of how to put himself across on camera, and he certainly has the work ethic to make a success of acting. But it'd take a pretty hip casting director to put him in anything, given his cult figure status.
Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky are both pretty charismatic and more high-profile than someone like Lito, but live-on-stage charisma doesn't automatically translate to the on-camera variety. All the same, I could picture either of them getting offered acting gigs before they got much older. Action Bronson's another.
Actor-turnt-rapper seems to be the direction shit is going in right now, though - Drake, Gambino, Mack Wilds...
But he might fall into the 'hard to direct' category, too.
Yeah, he was in Spring Breakers, which I quite liked.
Speaking of which, I nearly mentioned Riff Raff earlier, but James Franco's turn in that particular movie does present Jody Highroller with a unique dilemma if he ever secretly had designs on a movie career wherein he essentially played himself.
It seems 'Ye is working on something with Bret Easton Ellis, although Ellis is being a bit cagey about the precise nature of it.