Rapper/Actors

Now as we all know, white people fucking ruin everything, and hip-hop in the 21st century has grown increasingly tedious and retarded. So it should come as no surprise that some of the more enterprising individuals involved in the dark art of rhyming one word with another have diversified their bonds, as it were.

I'm talking about the rapper slash actor. Here are some of my favourites.

"these shopping baskets suck ass, dude"

1. Xzibit: the exhibitionst. Alvin Nathaniel Joiner IV started his hip-hop career with the Likwit Crew, a collective of west coast artists including the Alkoholiks. Unfortunately, nobody gave a shit in the grand scheme of things, so he quickly moved into television.

Not content with transforming clapped out rice burners into motorised eyesores on Pimp My Ride, Xzibit took the next big step into cinema. 

His first role, in a stroke of casting genius, was as a rapper in 8 Mile. He has since gone on to showcase his gruff  'Cookie Monster has hemorrhoids' routine in films like Derailed and XXX 2. 

More recently he played an FBI agent in X-Files: I Want To Believe, where he hung around for nearly 2 hours with a bemused expression on his face, possibly wondering when in the fuck did Scully get so old and ropey looking. 

Christ, I know I was.

tical was actually great

 2. Method Man: not Method Actor. This guy first gained recognition as part of the ethnically confused Wu Tang Gang. With lyrical gems such as "I'll sow your asshole closed and keep feeding you", it obviously wasn't long before Hollywood came calling.

After showcasing his scowly impertinence in filums such as Copland, How High and Belly, Meth threw us all a curve ball and switched to television, landing roles on HBO's Oz and The Wire.

Last seen in The Wackness with a beercan & eggs Jamaican accent that made Rastamouse sound like Barrington fucking Levy.

ice ice baby

3. Ice T: The OG. This guy has done it all. In fact he's more of an actor/rapper than a rapper/actor. Started out in Breakin' and then Breakin' 2 back in the 1980s. Followed this with classics such as New Jack City, Johnny Mnemonic and Leprechaun: In Da Hood. 

After being publically reviled for his song 'Cop Killer' during the heady days of the 1990s, he is now mostly famous for playing some cop on Law & Order, which must be kind of strange for him really.