Hip-HopArtist/Rappers turned Actors

With the new movie Just Wright, featuring rappers/artist Common and Queen Latifah, hitting theaters tomorrow I figured I would do a little showcase of some rappers who have turned to acting. Take a look-see:

Fredro Starr- Sunset Park, Save the Last Dance, Clockers

Ice Cube- Higher Learning, Boyz in the Hood, Are We There Yet?, Barbershop

Ice-T- New Jack City, Trespass, Ricochet

Busta Rhymes- Finding Forrester, Shaft, Higher Learning

Queen Latifah- Set It Off, Hairspray, Chicago, Mad Money

Common- Smoking Aces, Wanted, American Gangster, Terminator Salvation

Big Boi & Andre 3000- Idlewild, Who's Your Caddy, ATL / Semi-Pro, Four Brother, Be Cool

 








Will Smith- I Robot, Men in Black I/II, Seven Pounds, Bad Boys I/II

Bow Wow- Roll Bounce, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Like Mike, Johnson Family Vacation

50 Cent- Righteous Kill, Get Rich or Die Tryin'

DMX- Cradle to the Grave, Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds

LL Cool J- Deep Blue Sea, Slow Burn, Any Given Sunday, S.W.A.T 

T.I.- ATL, American Gangster

The Game- Waist Deep

Eminem- 8 Mile

Tupac Shakur- Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim 

Snoop Dogg- Baby Boy, Starsky and Hutch

Nas- Belly 

Ludacris- Crash, Max Payne, Fred Claus, Hustle & Flow, RocknRolla

Mos Def- Cadillac Records, Next Day Air, Be Kind Rewind, Italian Job, 16 Blocks

Q-Tip- She Hate Me, Poetic Justice

RZA- Ghostdog, American Gangster, Derailed

Amazing the range of films that have been covered by this group of artists. And who says Rappers can't act, well I got a list here that says different. It's really all about the skill, you either have it or you don't.