Leonardo DiCaprio has proven his Hip Hop fandom in items up to now, however the actor put it on full show over the weekend when he emphatically rapped Gang Starr bars at his birthday bash.
The Titanic star turned 49 over the weekend and celebrated with a star-studded celebration in Beverly Hills on Saturday (November 11). Per E! Information, attendees included the likes of Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Kim Kardashian, Girl Gaga, Salma Hayek, 2 Chainz, Chris Rock, Rita Ora and extra — and the playlist was equally as lit.
At one level, DiCaprio grabbed the mic to rap Greg Good’s verse from Gang Starr and Good & Clean’s 1992 basic, “DWYCK.”
“I say Muhammad Ali, ya say Cassius Clay/ I say butter, you say Parkay/ It’s alright if ya wanna make a sway/ I’m a manner Uptown, took deuce to the tre!” Leo may be seen rapping in a clip from the celebration.
Watch the clip under:
Clearly a ’90s Hip Hop fanatic, in 2021, Raekwon revealed he’d beforehand met up with Leonardo DiCaprio at a pizza spot in Brooklyn to debate making a Wu-Tang Clan biopic following the success of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton.
“We had a good time, consuming pizza, telling tales, laughing and shit,” he defined. “Then we began speaking about the potential for a Wu-Tang film and I informed Leo I’d like to see him play a task in it, something he wished to do. He talked about his manufacturing firm and all the administrators he thought may do an excellent job — and these had been huge names and folks he’d labored with.
“He was tremendous open to the thought, and after that meal, he had his manufacturing firm executives attain out to me. We took it to the subsequent degree with them. They had been very , so we bought the ball rolling, speaking actual numbers, with the purpose of an excellent larger launch than Straight Outta Compton.”
Raekwon couldn’t wait to “blow RZA’s thoughts” with the information that DiCaprio was prepared to lift all the cash for a film — supplied each Wu-Tang member was on board. RZA agreed to satisfy with executives, however Raekwon says he seemed uncomfortable from the get-go.
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“I’ve recognized the man for years and seen him act all types of how, and in that second, I noticed him enjoying a task,” he stated. “He sat there, taking it in, watching to see how far I might get. On the finish of the assembly, with out emotion, he simply stated, ‘Okay, I’ll get again to you,’ and Leo’s individuals left. I sat there with my index finger to my temple, elbow on my armrest, leaning again within the chair, looking at him.”
Raekwon tried to clarify to RZA how huge of a chance he felt it was and thought they left the dialog on a constructive be aware. They ended up establishing one other assembly that might doubtlessly shut the deal, however he sensed RZA’s angle had modified.
“He barely stated something and appeared to be going via the motions, nothing extra,” Raekwon stated. “I might inform he wasn’t going to conform to do it, and my instincts informed me why: my guess is that he was already in mattress with a manufacturing firm, deep into creating the scripted sequence for TV, although none of us had signed off on it.”
RZA apparently argued a sequence could be a greater option to inform their story, that it could be round longer and that streaming was the best way to go somewhat than film theaters. And some years later, Wu-Tang: An American Sagaarrived on Hulu.
